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+title: "Week 7 - More Adventures in Game Dev"
+date: 2026-02-08
+tags:
+  - weeknote
+  - weekly update
+draft: false
+---
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+- 👾 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!