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Friday Rambles 2025-12-12
🕑 Added 2025-12-13 03:13:47 +0000 UTCGood evening, Fridaynauts. It is the second Friday Ramble of the last month of 2025. Welcome to new people, and thank you to the oldheads.
Game Dev Stuff
There were a lot of real life interruptions and obligations this week that kept me from doing as much work on Game 2 as I would have liked, but game dev is slowly happening.
I wrote a bunch of dialogue, and I got some coding done. The coding was boring stuff related to phone calls. There are phone calls in the game again.
An excerpt.
A couple games came out that I caught my eye. Rhythm Doctor, a game that has apparently been in Early Access for a while, did its big 1.0 launch this week, and I played through 3 "acts" out of 6 total. The premise is simple. It's a rhythm game, and you only need to press one button. Wow! Amazing! I love Rhythm Doctor! I also love that there is a native Mac client, and it does all the ...fancy window stuff... perfectly.
Unbeatable, which had a lot of hype behind it, also released this week, so I also played that. I played through Chapter 1 on my Macbook using Crossover, and it seems to work fine. The premise is that it's a rhythm game, and you have two buttons to press. And you also have a story mode where you run around and do adventure game things. The soundtrack is bangin. I'll probably play more of it later after I finish eating my Hundred Line and Rhythm Doctor cakes.
Speaking of Hundred Line (which is not a rhythm game), I got a few endings out of its famous 100 endings, and I feel like I got what is probably a satisfying conclusion to the story, but I also think I'm still missing like 90% of what I can uncover. I laughed. I cried. But there are a lot of endings left. I want to get them all. Someday. Anyway, it's my GOTY.
I think video games are pretty cool. I don't know if I'll ever have the ambition (or budget) to make a game with 100 endings, but I'm feeling very inspired lately.
The End
I really hope next week will have more progress so I feel better about myself. I've written enough dialogue that I know what direction I want to take the game, but I think we'll have a couple+ more months of writing and editing to go. I guess in the meantime I'll just keep posting more doodles and no-context excerpts.
Also, next week will probably be some kind of "year in review" thing, where I look back at my year and cry about how little I really got done.
Thank you for your support, as always! See you next week.
Comments
hcnone
the more buttons the more better as they say
TwirlinCurtis
A one button rhythm game... a *two* button rhythm game... what's next, THREE???
