Firstly, many thanks to slicer4ever, the judges, and everyone else who made The Week of Awesome II possible. Secondly, congratulations to everyone who participated, especially everyone who completed their projects!

And now, on to a retrospective of Docent 314, the game I attempted to make in one wee…

In the last few minutes of The Week of Awesome II, I submitted a thing... unfortunately it is really, really broken.



In the last few hours I added a bunch of important features that 1) i couldn't remove because they're the meat of th…

The entirety of the interactivity that the player has with the game elements is now done.


The design is also complete, thanks to some low-tech brain-dumping.


Now it's …

So I realized that my game is basically Tower Defense + The Sims. So, no problem, I have four days left to recreate The Sims......

UI looks terrible but is just about fully functional.

Programming languages have their own meaning, and then sometimes I realize I've written something in English as well.
This may or may not be the best way to go about drawing buttons in a main menu screen; either way, I bet Freud would have something to say about it.

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My goal for the year, while I have a job that comfortably pays the bills and allows for 3+ days off a week, is to participate in as many game jams as I can. TWoA2 came at just the right time!

I'm not part of a team, so I'll be doing all the development myself. I'll be using GameMaker Studio, Paint.N…