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