Raspberry Foxy @Raspberryfloof@awoo.space

Is it normal if you're sad that you're normal?

I, um, uh. Well then, I guess this game sure has changed over the years... https://awoo.space/media/BOvTSu_YMgJGTzUZaco

*sees another game jam being talked about online*

Make a game in a week? I don't think I could make one in a whole year...

I wonder how a tactics/strategy game would be if the main gameplay wasn't designed around combat, but around exploration and treasure-hunting instead?

Battle Hunter for PS1 did this somewhat, though combat was still important in many ways... but its main focus was on finding a target treasure and exiting the map with it still in your possession, while using items to slow down your opposing treasure-hunters. I wonder if another game like that would be interesting...

(Though, of those, only FFTA and Disgaea are tactics games, and Battle Hunter is really closer to a board game... and I really liked the branching story and exploration in Riviera more than its combat gameplay...)

I've wanted to make something interesting and maybe a little similar to some games I've played before? Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Battle Hunter (PS1), Riviera: the Promised Land, and Disgaea have all been games I've really, really enjoyed, and I'd like to make something like them...

I've always gravitated towards making strategy games, board games, or some combination of both...

I haven't really finished any game in those genres, though, with the closest being a board game idea I started a few years ago and a forum RPG-strategy-game-thing I ran many, many years ago...

Someday I would like to make ... a game? I can't even describe what kind of game it should be...

Though at this point, having not actually made anything since shortly after starting college, making anything would be nice...

My timeline on birdsite flies by so fast most days that I have no sense of having read or seen anything on it, only a vague and usually incomplete memory of a sound byte or image macro I might have seen and can't remember exactly enough to share.

Thank you, awoo.space, for feeling less like a group of people fighting to talk over one another and more like a group of friends having thoughtful conversation with each other.

More good pinball scores from this weekend~

I missed ranking into the high scores on this machine by 150,000,000...
https://awoo.space/media/1phOxfsXoCDnfLrB0ns

Why is reducing a person down to only one word denigrating and wrong, but describing and even defining characters in a story using a single word or trope commonplace and accepted?

Relatedly, are character creators and writers particularly upset when fans or critics describe their characters this way?

And so, I get a feeling that unless I have enough money to become a patron and pay them, I probably shouldn't bother them, even if just to leave a message of support or ask a question about their work...

I don't know if anybody would even be upset if they got a message from somebody like me who they didn't already know and who wasn't paying them, but I feel like it's possible they would be, so I don't bother saying anything...

I've been really afraid of talking with any artist or writer or content creator who has a Patreon page lately...

Partly it's probably my anxiety like usual, but... I have been feeling like if a creator has a Patreon, and is making content directly for their patrons or has a private chat room, then not only are they probably very busy making their content, but they probably spend most of their time talking just with their patrons...

It's nice to know that Mastodon is capable of nearly crashing my entire system from a single Firefox tab left open for one week...

If there is a known memory leak in this project's code, how has there not been any work done in fixing it? Or has there been work done, but the work hasn't been merged in with the project? It seems like a major flaw for any user who uses Mastodon for any length of time...

I haven't been able to sleep well for the last week...

At least I had a very good night of pinball tonight. ^^ https://awoo.space/media/lXSdBvhqVRVnR2kgyME