Game Update
I keep saying that I’m going to get the achievements working and every week there’s a new problem that comes up. Still I think it’s important to post my embarrassment to keep my motivation high to get it done. I’ll take another look at it this week and hopefully we will get it together soon. The latest issue is creating a second version of the game that accessible from Steam. Something that might have some possible issues with it.
Building the new text system is also progressing as we are now able to pass arguments from the text box to trigger what we want, but we need to build the machinery to handle those things we want to do. For non-technical people an “argument” is something we can put into a function to get different outcomes. I like to think of it a lot like putting coins into a soda machine with a “return value” being the soda we receive from a soda machine.
I need to start plunking away at the levels in the game, setting time aside to do that. I have tomorrow off work and so I need to put in at least an hour or so. Maybe I need to start a new habit to sit at my computer each day. The problem is that I have a lot of competing priorities. Like I always say though it’s important to have enough evidence that you are what you say you are. If I really am a game developer then I will find time to make the development happen.
Personal Update
Good week for me overall. It was really nice not to be traveling for once. I really needed to have this time to take care of some things at home. I had been looking at a lot of shelves for my board games and it got really annoying so I moved on to other things.
Interestingly my neighbors were throwing out a perfectly good shelf unit which worked perfectly for all my Dwarven Forge stuff. It was quite a heavenly blessing. Tony Robbins talks a lot about having an “hour of power” which starts off with some exercise, then goes to gratitude, and finally to daily focus. I have to say this was quite a blessing for me, although I know it won’t be the final product where I will land.
Fathers Day today was such a blessing to be able to spend it with my parents. I jokingly said that I should probably spend it with my dad because I missed the last 22 with him. It’s crazy thinking back about how much family stuff I missed over the years by joining the military.
My girlfriend is at a baby shower this weekend and it’s been good for her with the adults but there are some other entities that seem to have a goal of making it miserable for her. It can be difficult dealing with your own family at times, but it’s important for us all to realize that we get to decide when we want to be happy or bothered by something. We have that control, and so it’s important to go easy on ourselves and set attainable goals for our own happiness. If we say to ourselves, “I won’t be happy until…” then it’s likely we are setting ourselves up for a really bad time which will reflect poorly on us and make people not want to be around us.
My parents gave me some old items from my high school days and there was a journal. This journal was read by my teacher, and so it’s not all my thoughts from the time. Still I remember some of the other things I was thinking that I held back at the time when I read it. I came to the conclusion that I really don’t like who I was back then. You would think that I didn’t have any friends or if I did I didn’t care about them. Very self centered, very entitled complaining about other people not paying attention to me. It was very much a taking mentality. We all have that to some extent.
It reminded me that I need to continually guard against those things, and I should also be aware when I see those qualities in others. Being abundant and giving while still maintaining boundaries is so important. I still don’t think that the young me would have been receptive to those concepts though.