---
title: "Week 5 - Back to Some Gamedev"
date: 2026-01-25
tags:
  - weeknote
  - weekly update
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---

- 🎮 Wrote the majority of a game engine for choose your own adventure style text based games. It has some useful feautres like sharing game states between multi-chapter games.
- 💭 Put a lot of thought and a bit of code towards the first game for this engine, it's called System Shutdown: 1999 and is based mostly in BBS forums.
- 🌧️ Had a ridiculous amount of rain this week, no flooding though thankfully.
- ✏️ [TabF5](https://tabf5.com/) sent me some stickers, and has also inspired me to do something similar in sending out stickers to those who request them and make a map of where I post to. I've started designing some stickers and doing some test prints.
- ⚔️ I started replaying Final Fantasy VII: Remake, on PC this time. I'm using the new "streamlined progression" (cheat) modes to skip most of the combat I have done before and focus on the story beats.

## Links I Found Interesting

- [AI Company Logos That Look Like Buttholes](https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes) - Pretty self explanatory if you ask me.
- [The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting](https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting) - Some interesting bits and bobs about the storage history of the internet archive.
- [Cosmic Odometer](https://cosmic-odometer.vercel.app/) - Space travel calculator written in Javascript.

## Music

KMFDM put out a remixed and remastered version of their 2005 album Hau Ruck last year, it slipped under my radar until now, but I've listened to it a bunch this week. Absolute banger.

**Total Tracks:** 95

**Top 5 Artists:**

- [KMFDM](https://www.last.fm/music/KMFDM) - 39 plays
- [Lazerhawk](https://www.last.fm/music/Lazerhawk) - 4 plays
- [Perturbator](https://www.last.fm/music/Perturbator) - 4 plays
- [Carpenter Brut](https://www.last.fm/music/Carpenter+Brut) - 3 plays
- [Kavinsky](https://www.last.fm/music/Kavinsky) - 3 plays

## Next Week

I should have a first chapter of a game playable some time next week depending on how consistency pass goes, it's most of the way there...