My day started earlier than expected, making my finish line to the evening all the more tiring. Some hot soup and a shower later I’m not left with much motivation.
Last night I did more soul searching, leading me to the last soul. After that it’s one final sweep of of the game to make sure I didn’t leave anything behind.
Then it’s time for yonder final boss battle.
It was another day. Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head, etc… Survived work, avoided most of the fascist employees and did what I needed to do. Came home, and escaped into creativity for the Halloween projector. I only have another 17 days to get as much as I can put together for the special night. If I finish this one by the end of the week I might have time for one more, and if not I’ll jam as much nonsense into it as possible.
Another weekend comes and goes. We had plenty of rain, and some old school co-op gaming in DOOM 2 and Heretic. I finished DOOM again, this time on the remaster, and tonight we finished the first episode of Heretic. The graphics might be severely outdated, but these games are still fun nevertheless.
I made the mistake of watching silly Half Life dev stuff… like what they named certain functions and entities in the levels.
Felt better today than I have the last few. Did a little more animating, and played some Portrait of Ruin before calling it a night. You can’t have Spooktober without at least one Castlevania game! Even defeated a boss in one go! Good note to end the night on.
Survived work, enjoyed some emotional support tacos, doing a little bit of animating and pondering what I’ll play tonight in the back of my head.
Open Thread
We did an out of the ordinary Monday Night Co-op in DOOM 2! My fave part was destroying Nazis in the secret Wolfenstein levels. It made up for a sore day.
Back to animating in Source Filmmaker! I have a couple of ideas that I want to put together for the Halloween projector this year. Last year I made a few small scary shorts to scare the kiddos. I probably won’t be able to make as many as last year, but I might have an idea or two to add onto what I’ve already crafted the previous year. This current animation should only take me a day or two. I might release this scene as its own standalone on YouTube if I like it enough.
It was late at night, it felt like a comfortable extended summer evening. At dusk I came home from a long walk through the city, with my friends the wallet and the music player. It’s my Friday on a Saturday night, and as darkness fell it only made my game library more enticing. In the mood for what seemed somewhat cinematic
I decided to return to Alan Wake’s American Nightmare to escape what would be considered my own. I can tell that I might have to do a second play-through of this in order to get all of the manuscripts, unless I can find them when the levels decide to repeat. It placed me back at the beginning level… kinda. It’s hard to explain, but I have to repeat what I had to do the first time around. I can’t tell if this is good storytelling or low lazy writing. I’ll take a break and revisit this on the big screen later.
We did some Heretic Co-op tonight, made it three levels in before I had to call it a night. Would have liked to have gone for a longer run but I have an early-ish day tomorrow. Still… I’m happy to have finally done some co-op, and look forward to much much more.