Welcome to Hell

I feel like I’m Job. This isn’t programming. This isn’t about logic or computer science or game design. This is metaphysics. This is fucking magic. I cannot get the audio to work properly. At one point it’s all tinny, then I spend two hours changing everything around, and nothing works …

19th nervous breakdown

In trying to fix the crashing issue, I made some changes to how the game handles sound. Changes that logically should make it work better and possibly prevent crashes. Now everything’s gone to hell and the sound becomes tinny at random. I am confused, and have no idea what to …

Of Rodents and Humanoids

I am hoping to release Phenomenon 32 tomorrow. I’m not going to make any promises, though. I’m disappointed I didn’t manage it earlier, but then, huge development teams with million-dollar budgets also have last-minute problems, so maybe I’m being unfair to myself. Or maybe I’m just an incompetent moron making …

Martin Luther King Day

I have written several times about Martin Luther King, and if I only write a short post I will repeat myself, so here’s a link to what I wrote a while ago. It’s still true. And then, dedicated to one of my favourite readers and a remarkable young fascist, one …

Dollhouse: The Hollow Men

Wow. It has been a spectacular journey, watching this show go from crappy to almost decent to interesting to total failure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show crash and burn this badly. Even the last episode of Battlestar Galactica had redeeming features. At least it made me feel …

Invasion of the Evil Bugs

I’ve managed to beat two newly cropped-up bugs back into the ground. There’s only a single obstacle left to releasing the game… again. I’ve asked for help in the Construct forums, and have a couple of possibilities I can still try out. But for now, I will take a break. …

bizarre bugs

OK, to give you an idea of the strange stuff I’m struggling with. In the game there’s a type of block that falls if you jump on it. Pretty standard platformer stuff, really. And it works fine. But then, when you load, all blocks of this type are suddenly 16 …

One More Update

OK, I’m giving up. Not on the game, just on finishing today. I don’t feel well enough physically. I shouldn’t have been so confident, but how could I know that all of these things would happen: complete destruction of glasses extreme stomach pains, probably due to the stress realization that …

O thou of evil luck

My glasses are now permanently broken. This makes things much harder. I have also suddenly encountered a bug that I cannot explain and that has never cropped up before. Maybe it was a fluke, but I don’t think so. Trying to figure it out, which is hard because it seems …