Content Update 11/12/22

I don't think I'll have much to update this week as it's been a relative chill week with not too much progress to report and majority of what I have done already discussed in a Game N Chill video I released earlier today, but I'll try to fill in the gaps.

Paper Mario

I was at a bit of a standstill with the Sweet Expedition video as I wanted to refine a puzzle I added before resuming my recording. I actually managed to do just that this week, so I expect I'd be resuming work on that video soon.

Like I said in the Paper Mario modding Discord, I'm not quite sure yet exactly how much of that video I want to make public as it could contain spoilers for the mod, but said spoilers aren't really spoilers if you've already played the Game Jam release. I guess I'll see how I feel when I finish making the video. Should be good for making clips to show off in future updates at the very lease. I'm actually super proud of this puzzle considering what I had to work with.

Golden Sun

I was going to say I had nothing new to report with Dawn of Djinn but since I was having one of those days where I struggled to do much of anything, for some reason my mind was like "this would be the perfect day to finally submit Dawn of Djinn to Romhacking.net" and would you believe it? It actually got accepted.

I assume if you're following me, you're already well aware of how to play Dawn of Djinn, but I got a feeling this is a huge step forward in making the mod available to more of the community. As simple as I try to make downloading and patching Dawn of Djinn I'm sure there's some people who still view Discord and Github as too overwhelming, so hopefully that alleviates those issues. If any of you happen to me more in the loop with playing mods than I am and are familiar with other sites I should look into, reach out to me to let me know and I'll consider them.

Romhacking.net - Hacks - Golden Sun: Dawn of Djinn

It was a bit of a process, but not too bad now that I better understand it, so hopefully I'll get around to releasing other projects I've made onto the site soon. I'm going to just wait until Sweet Expedition DX (the non-game jam version) is finished before releasing that; but all my other projects are fair game.

Adding in one more line to this blog after the fact, cause I just checked the site to get the URL and holly cow, it already has 70+ downloads. There's no way I imagine that it'd get that much attention this quickly. I really underestimated the impact reposting the project outside of Github or itcho would have.

Videos

Did a bit more video work than I was expecting this week as I've been having a couple crummy days where I didn't feel like doing much else but listen to videos, and I took advantage of that but listening to my own. Even got a video from that random DK 64 Randomizer stream I did, though I'm not sure when would be a good time to upload it quite yet, we'll see.

Mis

Is it just my imagination or do Splatfest and Community Days in Ninatic games always seem to line up on the same weekend? And why do I feel more inclined to play Inscription instead? Yeah, a couple weeks ago I got real into a Let's Play of the game and enjoyed it so much I decided to buy the game myself. So TBH I've been splurging that game all week. It's kind of a miracle anything else got done outside of work with how fun it's been. Not even in it for the tone of the game (despite that kind-of being the whole stick behind these developers), the gameplay has just been that fun. I've just hit a major plot point (trying to avoid spoilers since the story is good despite it not being the focus of why I'm playing it) so I'm looking forward getting back into it and experiencing how that plot point changes the gameplay, it's kind-of a divisive part of the game from what I've heard so it'll be interesting to experience it and know how I feel about it.

Probably not this weekend though, because Splatfest and Community Day are going strong and I do want to experience at least part of it. TBH Splatoon hasn't been as fun as it used to be so I at first thought I'd just be skipping Splatfest all together. But I decided to give it a chance and have been having fun so far so I think I'll boot up the game a couple more times to try it out.

I should stream Dawn of Djinn tonight because it's been so long, but I'm not sure if I'm going to feel up to it and I think I still have enough VODs to edit that it's not urgent for me to record more to keep on pace. I'll update on Discord and ... ... ...twitter... ... if I do go live tonight though I suppose. (Maybe I should just stream on Youtube so I can schedule a stream in advance so people can actually prepare to come to a live stream in advance for once... meh, for recording session streams it's not so bad if people don't show up, but I have been enjoying the fact at least one person stops by to say hi ever since I started streaming on Youtube.

Almost forgot, I did actually take part in Pokemon Go Community Day for a couple hours. It was Teddursa, and I had never gotten a shiny one despite events that happened that made it more common in the past. So I couldn't pass that up, good excuse to get out and walk after all. Made out pretty good for 2 hours. Got 17 shines, one with a perfect appraisal (perfect IVs), and couple that ranked really good for PvP. Only thing I wish was if at least one of those shines were decent for something. But hey, a shiny is shiny.

Now I'm going to see if I can sneak in a couple more Splatfest matches in before dinner and see how late it is after words so I can decide if I'm finally going to stream tonight. Take care.