I'm participating in Scream Jam! I'm finally freaking doing it! I'm making a game!!! I'd never heard of Gdevelop until I looked at Scream Jam. I'd been considering using RPG Maker MZ right up until the day before the Jam started, but at the last minute I checked out Gdevelop and thought it seemed pretty intuitive and more flexible, so switched over. Already I've got movement, camera control, and dialogue (with branching paths and variables that allow for event tracking) implemented. I'm making the vast majority of assets from scratch, so wish me luck~
Here, to my right, is one of the main character's animations. Her name is Pip! She's very squishy.
That's pretty much my exclusive focus for the next week, so updates to the site may not be incoming.
Over the weekend I had the joy of volunteering at a local writer's fesitval and got to seem some incredible folks speak on writing, including Markus Zusak and Robbie Arnott. It's so relieving that these two world-class writers are just dudes. This is in contrast to ethereal writers like Mark Z. Danielewski and the problematic Neil Gaiman, who are just as weird and ephemeral as they seem through their writing. I also discovered many new writers to dive into over the course of the weekend. Eugen Bacon, Angela Slatter, Mark Mupotsa-Russell, and Joana Nell were all writers who were entirely new to me, and their talks have really helped me look at characterization and storytelling in ways I hadn't before. It was massively inspiring, so having to dedicate my time to video game creation instead of writing is... a little torturous. XD I am so excited to get back to editing Project E and my other short stories.
~Adorne Sibley
P.S. I got to go to a late night event called SMUT, and it was an absolute riot. I got to watch Cameron Hindrum, Tasmanian writer and poet extrodinaire, read one of James Joyce's letters to his wife, and the entire room lost their collective mind when we got to the farting. Seriously, don't Google "James Joyce Letters to Wife" unless you're prepared to learn about every single kink he had. During that night I also got to hear the singular sex scenes from "The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt" by Mark Mupotsa-Russell, and "Mrs. Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year" by Joana Nell. I purchased both of them the next day.