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Heyo! Happy big fifty!
It seems we're closing in on one year since the first release. Now, I'm not really one to celebrate stuff, but I'll probably cook up a little special image or something.
Lately, I've been musing on humor. As far back as I can remember I've been trying to make people laugh. My earliest memory is from when I was... five? Couldn't have been older anyway.
There I was, walking alongside a friend. We were out on some field trip with the daycare, or something along those lines. Just a bunch of toddlers walking two by two in a line. We're chatting about whatever it is toddlers chat about. Suddenly my friend walks straight into a pole and falls on his butt. Everyone laughs.
I know exactly what I have to do.
Once we start walking again, I take aim for the very next pole. Bam! I fall on my butt, I look around, my face beaming, awaiting the inevitably incoming laughter. Let it wash over me, let me bask in it! Instead all I see is scorn and annoyance. What had I done wrong?
And that's really the heart of learning, well, anything really. Trying and failing. As long as one keeps trying, then one will keep making those mistakes that you learn from. Once you've made every mistake in the book, and probably some that had yet to be written down. Once someone has had to begrudgingly write down your newly discovered mistakes. Once there are no more mistakes left to make. That's the point when you've become good at something.
Humor is really the one thing I'm confident about when it comes to storytelling. That's because I've been trying and failing at it for my entire life. At this point, a joke falling flat doesn't bother me. If anything it's an opportunity to crack another joke. Do note that the last bit only works in person, though. Can't exactly gauge which jokes land when someone reads a text way after it's been written.
To me, the core tenet is to never force humor. Never to force myself to be funny, because that simply never works for me. But when something funny pops into my head, I'll inevitably want to share it. Making this game is a fantastic outlet for that.
Because my subconscious is constantly working on coming up with jokes. Whether I want it to or not, really. It's been trained to do so. Maybe since that very time I walked into a pole and no one laughed.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "He's clearly trying to distract us from the fact that he didn't get much done this week by way of weaponized rambling"
Not this time!
In fact, this was a pretty good week. Scene 10 and 11 are both done. Well, scene 11 needs to be added into the game, but that's quick work. The renders are the hard part and that's done.
So, all in all, quite a nice and productive week. Now, I think you've read more than enough, so I'll end it here. I kind of forgot to talk about the renders... Ah, well. There's always next time.
Thank you very much for your support, and I hope you learn from every mistake you make this week!
This weeks update