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Had to edit the font to make some values a power of 2. Turns out font making is quite a rabbit hole🤯

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: QA. Trying to understand why the pixel font explodes in the middle of a word for no obvious reason. 🧐

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: UI programmer. The hint system is now feature complete. Time to hunt all the bugs!

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: shit happens. Something crashed, but it wasn't my game. (Most importantly: Nobody was injured!)

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: UX/UI designer I'm taking a small break from code to draw some mockups. The new discovery bench UI will be more compact and will also introduce two new concepts: "fatigue" and "hints unlocking".

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: QA & gameplay programmer (again!) Third iteration with the hint system. I fixed a lot of rendering issues and edge cases. Notably recipe "variants" causing duplicated hints.

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: gameplay programmer again! One more iteration with hints & known recipes now showing. The implemented UI is getting closer to the mockup.

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: gameplay programmer! Now iteratively implementing the mockup into the game. Still lot of work ahead!

🎩 Today's solo #gamedev hat: UX designer again! Working on an aseprite mockup for a side panel that will provide hints for the discovery system.

Weave icon: placeholder vs Asset #gamedev

The crude weaving station is no longer a placeholder asset! #gamedev

Today's solo #gamedev hat: pixel artist

The full clothes production chain is in the game, time to balance it and redraw those placeholders! #gamedev

And now it's 95% implemented in the game! #gamedev

Today's solo #gamedev hat: UX designer! - Hierarchy of information✅ - Proximity✅ - Affordance✅ - Fat finger principle✅ (this is an aseprite mockup)

I'm working on expanding the configurable workshop system of the game's beta branch. Here's an open barrel set to dye things in red.

That feeling when you implement a bunch of TODOs that have been sitting in the code for a year.

Now rendered in-game!

13: Dream being gamedev 14: Learn first language (PHP) 15: Create browser-based strategy game 17: Game peaks 500 users 18: Choose webdev, gamedev too risky 20: Drop out of IT class, first job 28: Dad 30: CTO at work 33: Dad again 36: Quit software dev, get solo gamedev dream job