Something that might be interesting to know is that none of the plots in the spoiler section were de novo for the postmortem– They were all used in my out-of-engine code prototypes.
Another minor behind-the-scenes on the postmortem itself: I tried to set up MathJax to render equations live on the page, but I ran into a bizarre problem where the superscripts and subscripts broke when they were inside a spoiler tag. I couldn’t deduce what caused that (the spoiler tag implementation is pure CSS and doesn’t touch lineheight styling at all).
In the end I feel like it’s a better idea to pre-render the equations, anyways. Sometimes you just need to know when to put a problem down and move on to something else, y’know?
Done with one project, onto the next.
clipping. is really one of the best groups to ever do it, much less in the current industrial scene. The release of Dead Channel Sky earlier this year quickly became one of my all-time favorite albums, and the upcoming extended cut continues to stun with impeccable lyrical delivery and super tight production.
I feel like I don’t have very much to say about the current itch.io situation that hasn’t already been said. What a time to start dipping my toes into gamedev and launch my first non-anthology vn.
While Offsuit Pair is in no danger of delisting from the current “NSFW” targets, it hurts to see all these new friends and acquaintances that I now know personally from the Toxic Yuri VN Jam be subjected to this (and, well, I was also planning to dip my toes into publishing explicit works soon™…).
We don’t just have to stand by and watch. Aside from contacting card services directly, events like these really emphasize the importance of community. When big corporations throw the marginalized to the curb, all we have is each other– events like the Toxic Yuri VN Jam bringing people together is a feature, not a bug.
In the past few days there’s been a big push for people in the VN-space to build their own personal websites, and given my 20+ years (😨) of off-and-on web dev experience and 2+ years of programming education experience, I wanted to do something to help out with this. There are already a thousand different "make your own personal website" guides, I figured that I didn’t really need to make guide number one thousand and one.
Instead, I set up a discord community to connect people who are working on their own personal websites, where people can share help, resources, and status updates.
Aside: Yeah yeah, I know, you don’t need to preach to me about discord itself being a walled garden at the whims of corporate overlords– this was just the common tool to get together people who were already in the TYVNJ discord server. If there’s a sustained interest in this I will consider moving to something akin to
phpBB.
While this server is currently full of TYVNJ participants, it’s open to anyone who wants help with their personal website, especially those who are queer or otherwise targeted by recent social media content restrictions.
Anyways. On to less grim news: Offsuit Pair has been really well received and I’ve been overjoyed about it. There will be more on this in the upcoming postmortem, but I knew that the project was going to be a very big undertaking for the timeframe and I’m glad that the completed work managed to stick the landing and resonate with people. There are even small gaming sites talking about it!!
current ongoing project for the Yuri VN Jam, aiming to get a vertical slice and/or demo completed.http://hamaonoverdrive.online/ yml file (will make future updates trivial)