Teaching the Next Generation

Game Update

Still working on stages for the game and feeling like I’m gaining some momentum. I need to create a habit around sitting at my computer every day to become more productive. I took time this past week to prepare for a Dungeons and Dragons game that I was the Dungeon Master for, which I am partially doing to learn more about story telling.

I also started the process of teaching my oldest son how to create stages in an effort to get more work done. I’m hoping that it will be an improvement overall, but it might not work in the long run. I’m expecting that it will take four times as long to create a stage with him compared to doing it myself. But if I do it well enough even if he is making stages more slowly they are getting done. On the other hand if they aren’t up to snuff we can always make them bonus content for a random stage generator that I made. It will randomly pick stages for the player to play, it doesn’t randomly generate the entire stage.

We also ran into a new problem which is the dependencies that are require in every stage in order to use our now choice system, and display messages to the player in general. I will probably go through all the stages and add it before getting back to the meat of level development.

Personal Update

School has begun and there were a couple of growing pains but overall it seems to be going well. This year I will have to pay for school lunches which means that I will have to do some additional work that I didn’t have to deal with during the pandemic. My time this last week wasn’t just occupied by preparing for Dungeons and Dragons it was also spent working on some nice shelves for my board game collection. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and I finally pulled the trigger on some shelves from Sams.

Things are good with my girlfriend. She was able to break away to visit the boys and I this weekend. She’s so good to me. She helped me get ready and even played some Dungeons and Dragons with my friends and I. We had a small family crisis related to some upcoming holidays but we worked it out. It’s important to make sure to take a leading position when problems come up.