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Coder's Log 1/28/2020

Hey, you know the drill by now. I've been trying to find motivation to work on a project that I could use to learn Spriter Pro , but my job has kept me pretty busy.  There was some projects that needed to be completed at my workplace, short deadlines, pushy customers, and our Project Manager has left.  Now I'm the Project Manager, but only temporarily, as my employer finds someone else for the job; though, I think I got the experience and skills to handle the job. Anyway, you didn't come here to read about my professional life.  I'm hoping you're here to see what fun stuff I'm creating.  So, to help get me motivated, I decided to find another Game Jam to join to give me an incentive to work on something.  I think I found the perfect jam:  Metroidvania Month 7 !  It's another Game Jam hosted on itch.io and I'm liking that it's not going to force me to do a theme.  Well, besides the fact that it forces me to make a game of a certain genre. ...

Game Off 2019 Results

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Hey!  I know it's been a while, but I've been pretty busy with the Holidays. Anyway, I had some time to check out how Game Off 2019 went.  Here's the results and I found Bee Flat on Page 7 .  I captured them below There were 236 entries and the score was out of 5.  So, overall the game was placed just below half the entries.  Which, is pretty good given that the game was incomplete when I submitted it.  Yeah, next time I'll try to actually submit a finished project.  I might pull a No Man's Sky and complete the game, but I'll do that later.  I still have Shield Bearer to finish as well.  However, I want to actually start a project that isn't bound to some weird theme from a competition. I want to build a Mega Man X fan game.  I've been watching videos that JKB Games have put out on their fan game called Mega Man X: Corrupted .  I'm a bit worried about that game since it runs on Flash and every browser is ditching it at t...