Reflections on social media, technology, science, and video games.

Violet Kurtz

Chasing Elysium - Devlog #005

This was a slow week for a few different reasons. Don't worry about it. The big thing is I've been setting the website up. I did however make some progress! Namely I started working on the combat UI and I tested the targeting code. Targeting code…

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Stress and Agency

When I get a therapist, I am going to walk in day 1 and tell them: "I have a challenge for you that you may deem impossible. Teach me to care only as much as I have agency to affect things." A big problem with…

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Same Blog, New Host

Good news! I am now officially off of neocities and am running on a proper server and hosting provider! If you subscribe to the Atom feed, be sure to update it to point here. As for the blog, we're now found at our own url…

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Chasing Elysium - Devlog #004

I made more progress than expected this week, despite recovering from my bike crash! Unfortunately none of it is in a state where it can be tested yet. I implemented the movement code for the player while they're in combat! The player has three movement…

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Chasing Elysium - Devlog #003

This is a day late cause I crashed my bike a couple days ago! I'm resting and healing, but this coming week I probably won't get much done. I got the rough (and I mean rough) draft of the first part of the opening cutscene done.

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