Originally the most damage a character could do was 9, which isn't a lot considering that the max health a chracter could have 100. So I changed the ATT stats by x10 and now you can 1 hit kill some characters. It's either too tedious or too easy.

And it's still not done yet. It's gonna' end up at like 16,000 blocks or something.

I'm too busy to enter this time around; maybe next year.

The great thing about this jam is that I can roast the hell out of crappy projects and it be considered a compliment!

I've been working on coding this battle for almost 6 hours straight and my brain has turned to mush. It doesn't help that I also decided to make it a 3v3 instead of the usual 1v1 I know how to code; so trying to organise how everyone fights in time is complicated. I've been so focused that I didn't hear my brother enter the house, and only noticed his existence when I saw the light from his room coming under the door when I went to get a glass of water. My school likes to give on the friday on the week of my birthday a free day off (idk why, probably black Friday) so I've had nothing better to do all day (I played dreams on my PS4 in the morning and because it had been like 7 months since I last use it; I had to sit through a lot of software updates.)

But yea, I'm starting to get confident that I will get this coded in time for pixel day as after all the annoying battle coding it's just generic visual novel stuff where you press the enter key a lot. I was thinking about streaming me working on it, but then I realised everything would be twice as laggy and nobody would be watching so I would be sacrificing my patience for nothing.

I haven't gotten the motivation to draw in the past few days. I think this probably due to burnout or something, considering it takes so fricking long to draw all the frames for a 20 second scene. Some scenes I can reuse frames if it's in the same setting; but a majority of the time I can't really do that. It's like animating a 40 minute film single handheldly; but it's worse because it's in pixel art. I've also put a lot of pressure on myself, especially recently as there's no way I can get this released in time for pixel day. It's going to really annoy me, but I want the end bit to be properly polished as that's when everything adds up.

I also only really work on it during the weekends now, which is more of an on and off development rather than a "sit down and work on it for 6 hours straight" like it was before. I'm not sure why, as I get less homework now than I used to.

Another factor could be that I feel like crap recently. I've been sick for the past 3 weeks and earlier this week I had to stay off school because I had a fever and I felt like I was constantly ascending to the heavens above. I've also not eaten properly this entire week as my throat just refuses to swallow anything. Mum says she's going to get a food counsellor but I've just accepted that this is my punishment for being so god damn picky. I always feel tired and cold, even when wearing a jumper, a hoodie and a blanket. I mean I'm noticing the obvious lack of speed just while typing this: usually I'm typing so fast I end up making typos like thsi from pressing the keyboard too fast, but now I feel much slower, even to subway surfers nightcore.

Or it could just be that I overplayed my playlist to the point my ears puke whenever they hear it and drawing in silence is for wimps. Probably that.

how am I supposed to fight with this!? I give them the power of oats?

I can't put it on the movie portal as it'll break the rules and I don't want to waste my time being blammed, so here's the YouTube version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obD2mKA4Sgs

but yea, hopefully I'll finish it by Pixel Day.

also this is the 100th news post and I'm the only person who seems to care as I celebrate even the smallest of things.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

safe to say, Newgrounds changed my life. If it wasn't for this then I would still be stuck trying to please the hellhole that is the YouTube algorithm.

i'm about 3/4 of the way done. I suspect all the work is going to be done during the half term and Christmas holidays when I don't have school. Currently it's so buggy it's unplayable (gotta' deal with stuff like this) but when I'm at a stage where I can actually play through it all without getting stuck on the nightmares of Jesus on crack, then I'll make a trailer or something.