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Happy Saturday Fellows.

It’s been a little longer than I would’ve liked since I posted last, but I’ve had a bungle of crazy stressors hovering around me. Thankfully now most of that is solved!

This is the car of mine acquirement.

I’ve had my license for a while, but have been a wheel borrowing bum. With the moneys I’ve saved up for a while I was able to buy this creature from Mike and put it on the road!

The exhaust system was absolutely rotted to expletive, so I had to do all this part buying research and get the stuff. My father was a big help through it all. Now it’s all fixed up, but one of the headlights is out. I’m kinda pissed about that because on this model of car you have to take off the whole front grill to change it. But after that it will be fine!!!

This is the school of mine attendance.

School has finally come back into style! I live on campus, and it’s about an hour from my house. This is now my second semester at this place and boy am I glad I have a car now. I’m bus tolerant and all, but it’s a 50 minute ride to the nearby city. Every time I wanted to explore it was just too complicated to plan out. And getting home was rough too of course.

Friend making is gradual. I only had 1 Computer Science class last time, and every class was basically freshman stuff. I transferred after 2 years at another school, so some stuff didn’t carry over and all that. On top of that I got put in the freshman dorm where we share a kitchen and no one does dishes. Jeeez louise!!!

This time my classes are more interesting and computer-y, with an accounting twist. Hopefully I’ll find some like-minded buddies who like doing dishes.

I got one class and the professor is an older fellow who talks really quietly into a microphone in this giant ass room and I did not absorb one thing he said about networking or Linux or filesystems on the first day. Really dreading that one, I’ll have to sit closer to the front.

I’ve been playing around with the ol’ PICO-8 again and turning some gears. I mentioned I was working on Jeri Tower in Game Maker. All sorts of sequel ideas and whatnot. Well I also wanted to go back to Jeri 1 and fix up the nasty spaghetti code, and make it easier to make your own levels by editing the PICO-8 cart. As the original is, a lot of stuff is hard-coded and stupid.

I’ve been transplanting the code function by function, adding comments and ensmartening the logic. I replaced our favorite square with her true human form, complete with 4 directional animations and all! I was able to be a cool programming whiz and fit all the heads and bodies into a mere 7 tiles.

If you’re not aware, I’ve only 128 tiles to work with! I was pretty lazy and rushing with the original game, so there’s a lot of room to optimize graphics use, and plenty of room for more code. I think I can make a pretty cool sequel in PICO-8, and making your own Jeri Tower adventure will be a breeze!

Throwing a wrench into my momentum, Bigmode announced a weeklong Game Jam like 2 days ago.

I’m gonna try to get something made for this, most certainly in PICO-8. I’ll keep you all updated on that, and on Jeri 2 once I get some more stuff done!

I’ll update you all on Pokemon and other gaming exploits some other day. Thanks for reading, boss!

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