From 57b64d48d3f3398c5ab7c0e85c3431845eb020ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 17:16:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Weekly post --- .../index.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2026-02-08-week-7-more-adventures-in-game-dev/index.md diff --git a/content/blog/2026-02-08-week-7-more-adventures-in-game-dev/index.md b/content/blog/2026-02-08-week-7-more-adventures-in-game-dev/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8362223 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2026-02-08-week-7-more-adventures-in-game-dev/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: "Week 7 - More Adventures in Game Dev" +date: 2026-02-08 +tags: + - weeknote + - weekly update +draft: false +--- + +- 👾 Spent a decent amount of my spare time this week working on my next game, a cozy fishing game. +- 🎣 I’ve got a good number of the core mechanics in place, including: + - The main fishing game + - A day/night cycle and lunar cycle both impacting fish availability and their difficulty to catch + - A weather system that also affects fish, and a weatherman who gives a 5 day forecast + - A guild NPC who sells bait and rods, and buys fish. Certain things are only available at certain skill levels. + - A guild contract system where you get 3 quests per day for bonus rewards - which quests you get might affect when and where you want to go fishing! + - A separate quest system… this is in the early stages, but you can accept and complete quests from a log. + - A fishing log that records quantity of fish caught, and your largest catch! +- ‼️ Holy heck that’s a lot of stuff, I’m really happy with the progress. +- 🖼️ I’ve been browsing itch.io assets and picked up a few I think fit the vibe well. I’ll add a few of my own once I’ve got a good handle on what I want. +- ✏️ I found my iPad pencil and drew a bunch of maps for the zones to be created. +- 📄 There’s a blog post coming, maybe tomorrow, about displaying my website stats on one of the Badgeware I received last week. I have 4 other draft posts I need to work on too! + +## Links I Found Interesting + +- [Hack the Gibson](https://hackers-1995.vercel.app) - I love Hackers (1995) +- [Maple Mono](https://font.subf.dev/en/) - Nice looking monospace font + +## Music + +**Total Tracks:** 127 + +**Top 5 Artists:** + +- [Essenger](https://www.last.fm/music/Essenger) - 24 plays +- [Lorien Testard](https://www.last.fm/music/Lorien+Testard) - 7 plays +- [Samurai Pizza Cats](https://www.last.fm/music/Samurai+Pizza+Cats) - 7 plays +- [Sonic Mayhem](https://www.last.fm/music/Sonic+Mayhem) - 7 plays +- [Lazerhawk](https://www.last.fm/music/Lazerhawk) - 6 plays + +## Next Week + +I am going to push on with the cozy fishing game, there's a lot of colouring in to do but I am really looking forward to seeing people play this one. I'll need to work out how I am going to create a leaderboard for this one, too!