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Trans Movie Night

2026-05-03T07:40:00Z

I went to a "diy film night for the trans community" in Los Angeles that showcases queer indie movies, some animated, mostly shorts. Tried to find uploads for some of the ones I liked.

12 Little Things

Magia de Sangre

Xenia

Enchanted dev log 2

2026-03-18T15:00:00Z

I have three updates!

First, handling auto tiles next to another set of auto tiles. You can see what it looks like on the ground tiles next to the walls.

Second, remembering that you opened a door in that room for when you want to go back. Might end up keeping track of other things like enemy deaths, not sure yet.

Third, implemented the first equipment, a sword. I don't think the player will actually start with it, but it does add a little bit of interest to combat. There's a counter on the sword that tracks the player's steps and when it reaches two, it lights up and making a move lets you lunge at a slime, barrel, etc. if it's two spaces away, letting you get the first hit. I thought about being able to store its use and having the player activate it with a special key press but I like the idea of it being used automatically on the turn, and hopefully it'll lead to either planning moves or spontaneity? Other equipment will probably follow the same thought and be activated with movement and meeting other conditions.

Don't expect updates every week. I was trying to make a deadline to show the game to people this upcoming weekend but I don't think it'll be ready in time.

Enchanted dev log 1

2026-03-11T21:40:00Z

Making a turn-based action-puzzle game, it's temporarily called Enchanted. I'm still figuring out what's interesting about it, I tend to just work on stuff until I think of something, but the template is that it's inspired by 2D Zeldas and the mechanics and the kind of exploration you do in roguelikes, minus the actual procgen levels. It's also made with Beagle, my C++ game framework. Here's a video, I'm still adding tiles so don't mind the visuals.

In it you take a step and the enemies take their step almost immediately, there's animations going on for the actions and the states (position, health) resolve at the end of these animations. There's delays from waiting for animations so I allow the player to move anyway during the enemies' animations, with some checks for where the enemies would be (and same for the other side). Anyway I spent a few days rewriting this loop so I wouldn't be constantly breaking state and it's been so much nicer to work with. Don't separate turn-based logic into bunch of systems and code files, it sucks to manage.

Rewrote a few other things too like my level loader to add and parse different kinds of gameplay data. It's easier to add enemies to spawn, set what an enemy should drop (a moving barrel could drop a slime enemy when destroyed) and set what opens doors, which act like Zelda dungeon doors that can open from switches or clearing enemies.

Also I started on some code for UI layouting since Beagle doesn't have anything for this yet! I don't need much at the moment, but I can stack UI sprite elements together, group into rows and have pixel-perfect snapping and scaling.

Los Angeles Metro Rail done quick

2026-01-12T17:00:00Z

I finally got around to watching this LA Metro speedrun by Catz! Over a year ago I learned about transit speedrunning from someone in the scene, whose name is also shouted out at the end for helping Catz navigate the Metro system in the chat.

Favorite songs and albums released this year

2025-12-11T12:00:00Z

This one's short on albums so I threw in a list of songs too. I noticed myself listening to less melancholic sounds than usual.

Albums

Liquorice by Hatchie

I think it's her most creative album in terms of songwriting. It could also be my 90s alt-rock bias.

In Love Again by Ex-Vöid

You should listen to both Ex-Vöid albums and be sad they're breaking up the band.

Songs

7. Any single this year by Yumi Zouma

Usually a casual listener but they have an album out in January and I'm kinda excited about it!

6. Four Years or LISL by Baileyrp

Found on social media playing live in nature somewhere in Colorado. I like the "reimagined" versions of both Four Years and Love Isn't So Lonely.