Story deadline rush

With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on.

First of all, let me throw in the announcement trailer of Antegods, the ‘stonepunk arena action’ game I’m working on with Codeglue. The trailer was shown at GDC in March and recently polished for wider release. My main concern with the project right now is the accompanying comic book, but I tweaked the copy for this trailer too.

So how about last week? Mostly, it saw the continuation of my RIVE story deadline rush.¹ I spent two days at Two Tribes and an evening at home on it, and things luckily went a lot more smoothly than before; I’m now pretty confident I’ll get to the end of the game this week.

I did find some time to get going with the new story setup for Geometry Girl, with 8 chapters instead of 10, rebooting the project in a new Slugline² document. It’s not much, but better than not doing anything with it at all.

Also firmly in the hybrid writing space, I published a blog post³ I’d been working on for a while: Moving through prose – Exploring better ways to display linear longform text. Getting it finished took far too long, and I want to publish a few more posts before the end of June… So wish me luck.

What else? I…

• Had lunch with Iskander to discuss my talk at Behavior Design AMS later this month.
• #hobbydevved with Hessel, finally taking the plunge from Game Maker to Unity, after he’d subtly pointed me into that direction for months. I did do a tutorial before, but was too afraid of programming in C#… It turns out to not be that different from GML, which is also C-based, I’m told, and I’m starting to feel like I could learn this.
• As the weather was finally improving, and my kids didn’t have school, we spent some days doing touristy stuff like checking out my sister’s work in a church in Bodegraven and visiting de Efteling.

Average step count per day: 8.147
Average staircase count per day: 11
Average sleep per night: 7:41
Average weight: 86,9 kg