I hope dev goes well tonight or this blog is going to be awkward as fuck for the 2.5 people who read this blog post

I've stared into the void, "what's making my game suck?" and I have accepted that the core beat 'em up combat, the absolute core of my game is shit. I'm not entirely sure why, I have vague notions, but today will be endless iteration and smashing of heads into the keyboard. 

Gamedev isn't easy, Gamedev is about long fought gains and functionality over years of time, about arduously spinning your wheels in mud as every sense of sanity slips as you begin to wonder. WHY THE FUCK AM I DOING THIS FOR MYSELF TO MAKE A GOD FUCKING GAME ABOUT STUPID FUCKING FISH. I don't know any more in this horse shit world, but tonight it's further into the breach. If I can make button smashing combat fun tonight, we may just have a snowball's chance in 2022 out of this madness. 

Tonight we're going to revamp the core combo system, we're going to give the shark a variety of attacks that invite button mashing combat goodness. For too long SeaCrit has failed in it's soul: beat 'em up goodness.

So tonight we go into the breach, seeking to cut the disgusting entrails of failed gameplay, and to stuff it with various tastey herbs of spices so when this game cooks up, it can be ready for mass consumption and doesn't leave a bad taste in anyone's shark tooth laden maw.

Been saving this motivatonal speech for a long time, think I'm finally going to link it again.

Used to share this with people I was working with on the game, it's been a long strange slog, bittersweet as the years scuttle away. I wish people weren't so fickle, I wish the world wasn't so fucking batshit and vindictive. At the end of the day, that's why we have a chance, we can make something that isn't tainted by the clowns and jokers, something that isn't an offspring of the ungrateful, weak willed, vapid shit that flies in all directions these days. 

Time to suck it up again, time to go hard again, time to get that next inch deep in this dark cave, then wake up and do it fucking again... again, and again 

Then we have a near nervous breakdown, take a few months off, whimper back to the project, AND GET THAT NEXT FUCKING INCH M-THER FUCKERS

Edit: Dev went really fucking well. Groundwork is laid and new system is functional, gotta spend a little time polishing it before a new build will be ready.