HelicalPants

HelicalPants

@wateresque.bsky.social

Person, dad of girls, fan of democracy, open minds, and growth mindsets, player of Final Fantasy games. Oh and nascent game dev. Have a weird day!

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Learning how to use a DAW, and figuring out how to manage plugins, and virtual instrument programs, and soundfonts, and soundfont players, and when to use which of these things, and how to use them together, and how to compose anything even kind of good... is melting my brain. But I will press on.

Something I noticed from trying to get acclimated to the community and watching a bunch of devlogs, I find myself getting a little overwhelmed and discouraged. What makes me think I can do what they do?

I have a few game concepts I've started building. Which do you want to see brought to life first? 🚀 A text based adventure with semi-random event progression 🪃 A resource management dungeon looting game with time based mechanics ☄️ A puzzle solving story based game with multiple paths <See next>

Got some more in the works: 🃏 A deck builder tcg sim with creative mechanics 🏘️ My "big idea" dream game. It is a 4D puzzle adventure game. This one will be a slow burn, as I want to get my feet wet with a smaller project first, so I can do this one justice. Let me know which one interests you!

Voila. Here I am. Pretending I'm cocky enough that I have a place in the crowded indie dev world. But I'm going to try! And I'm going to keep myself grounded. If success arrives, I'll scream. But success is not my goal, the journey is.

Don't tell me to have compassion for any Trump voters right now. Until a few days ago I was light handed with my posts on Facebook. I detest that platform and very rarely endure opening it, but I have a lot of distant family and friends I feel the need to remain connected to.

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I know that when all the dust settles on the national and global hellscape on the horizon, we will need to get back to trusting one another rather than the greedy monsters and tyrants that rule our little lives.

I know that being kept uneducated, impoverished, and hateful was largely out of their control. But the idea of respecting any of them right now or feeling sorry for any of them who were deceived... No. Just no. I know it's petty and not helpful. But I don't give a single shit about them right now.

Don't tell me to have compassion for any Trump voters right now. Until a few days ago I was light handed with my posts on Facebook. I detest that platform and very rarely endure opening it, but I have a lot of distant family and friends I feel the need to remain connected to.

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Don't tell me to have compassion for any Trump voters right now. Until a few days ago I was light handed with my posts on Facebook. I detest that platform and very rarely endure opening it, but I have a lot of distant family and friends I feel the need to remain connected to.

And sometimes I speak to the ill-informed and narrow-minded ones on there with empathetic pleas to consider other perspectives and advice about how the rich are manipulating both the right and the left against each other, etc. with the faint hope that even one of them will give it a passing thought.

I'mma be real with y'all, Dawntrail has one glaring problem. I'm not talking about the common complaints about characters and plot. It's whoever mixed the title screen track to play at 100,000% volume 🫨

Top 10 games Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Final Fantasy 14 Final Fantasy 13-2 Subnautica Final Fantasy 7 Remake Nier Automata Zelda Majora's Mask Final Fantasy 10 Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy 12

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It is done!!! LW was the last thing on my plate. This picture here of these 4 plats is many years and many tears in the making. By far, the most infuriating trophies were reaching lv 99 with both Sora and Riku in CoM (why? WHY?!?) and Mysterious Figure with Terra. I'm going to frame this.

After showing my kids Infinity War months ago, one of my daughters hid her infinity stones terrified someone would use her gauntlet to snap people out of existence. Well she just saw Endgame and now realizes the stones can be used for good. But it turns out she hid some of them a little too well.

Late to the party once again. I have finally plunged into this old chestnut of a series. I was intrigued, but what finally hooked me was going through a couple of these cauldron facilities and being able to override bigger kinds of machines. Definitely prioritizing cauldrons, makes the game a blast!