Behold: What to Watch, a webpage to help me decide what to watch next out of my backlog of tv and games etc.

Note: this is not a rec list. I have not seen most of these things and the rating is just an estimation of how much I think I'll like it. Also the code is shonky as hell, I poked it until it worked and then stopped. "Add new work" is ( Read more... )

Before I forget what they all mean! I had a good time, the JAFWA manga library was a great way to rest and I had some delicious sukiyaki from Pepper Steak which probably had nothing to do with my throat going bright blotchy red just afterwards.

Game development:

Let's Make Games local game group
Global Game Jam: Perth
Construct 2 Game engine
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Since it's come up a few times for me, and I imagine others might find it useful too.

Ren'py is a Python based visual novel engine for creating interactive stories. It's designed for stories which rely mainly on character sprites and dialogue, which means most of the code looks a lot like the script of a play. It's aimed at non programmers and ( Read more... )

The other thing I've been working on for the last few days (especially whenever Cam is home and snags the PC to play ME3 himself) is a totally tasteful and understated lesbian vampire romance sim (I came up with the title :D). I'm doing backgrounds and some of the writing, the other people are all very talented and throwing ideas and art concrit ( Read more... )

Code Academy Turns learning to code into an interactive game. I only got a little way in since it's not really aimed at people who already know how to code, but what I saw looked like fun.

Men's Versus Women's Poses Trying to re-enact fantasy novel covers in real life.

Open Culture Free online stuff! I haven't actually had much of a chance to ( Read more... )

Recently I've encountered a bunch of recs to works from the hs-olympics. One that stuck out for me was the very cute visual novel/game Between The Woods And Lifeless Lake or How We Spent Our Summer Vacation.

I was really impressed with their programming until I realised they were using a pre-made visual novel creator.

And then I realised there is a pre- ( Read more... )