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title: "Week 6 - I actually released a game!"
date: 2026-02-01
tags:
  - weeknote
  - weekly update
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---

- 🎮 I actually released a game! You can [play it right now](/games/whittler).
- ⚖️ During the finishing up stage I realised how hard balancing something like this is, there are over 7,000,000 skill unlock combinations. I wrote a simulator at one point but it was going to take a very very long time sim all the possible combinations.
- 👾 One of the most fun parts of making the game was right at the end where I decided I wanted to allow people to submit their high scores and display them, so got to explore Godot, the web export, and the javascript interactions.
- 🧑🏻‍💻 Some little gadgets arrived and I need to do a full blog post about them, it should be coming next week.
- 🦷 I lost my only filling so had to go to the dentist and get that sorted out.
- ❤️‍🩹 Slipped on our wet muddy patio last Sunday and hurt my knee which has been painful all week - overall a crap week, health-wise!
- ⚔️ I completed Final Fantasy VII: Remake, this time the PC version mostly played on the Steam Deck. Still don't have a good grasp on what the heck is going on with the fate elements, but overall it's a good game and a worthy remake.
- 📺️ Finished watching DanDaDan series 1, it was excellent and I highly recommend it.

## Links I Found Interesting

- [Astrological CPU Scheduler](https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope) - I'd like to find a reason to use this.
- [Soup of Life](https://soupof.life/) - Cool life/world simulation. Would be cool to make something like this.
- [Snow Simulator](https://potch.me/2026/snow-simulation-toy.html) - Just a snow simulation.

## Music

**Total Tracks:** 190

**Top 5 Artists:**

- [KMFDM](https://www.last.fm/music/KMFDM) - 45 plays
- [Lazerhawk](https://www.last.fm/music/Lazerhawk) - 14 plays
- [Kavinsky](https://www.last.fm/music/Kavinsky) - 12 plays
- [Das Mörtal](https://www.last.fm/music/Das+M%C3%B6rtal) - 8 plays
- [Miami Nights 1984](https://www.last.fm/music/Miami+Nights+1984) - 7 plays

## Next Week

I'll absolutely go back and finish up the text based adventure style game I was working on for the terminal on my homepage, it's really close to being done I just got distracted!
