Me: *kills the boss* Everybody else at the office: 
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My laptop's HDD died yesterday...luckily, I had another drive to use for it, and I back up documents fairly often, so I think all I lost was a few days of development...le sigh.
One more paper and I will have written my last grad school essay. Then I can finally get back to the important stuff, like making a game nobody will play.
Didn't know what to write for my final in my personal essay class...so I just wrote a long devlog in prose. This is literally the first time game development has impacted grad school in a positive way.
I've made a lot of small changes and fixes over the past couple weeks without actually making any progress on my game...now I'm running out of things I want to change, and I'm terrified that I might have to start being productive again...the horror! D:
I officially declare today "test play day." I'm going to waste the whole day playing video games, which isn't a shock to anybody, but hopefully today I'll play my own and figure out what still needs fixin's.
My favorite kind of progress? Reverse progress! First, change some small feature of your game. Second, go back through and change 6,000 tiny things related to that minor alteration just to get your game playable again. What fun!
I'm into working on the penultimate chapter of my game, and it's going well...so well that I worked on it all day yesterday and am now overwhelmed with the other things I didn't do. Go me.
I like numbers. Here's my game (so far) by the numbers:
Actors: 16
Items: 74
Common Events: 100
Switches: 263
Variables: 155
Plugins: 26
Maps: 159
Events: 5203
Which adds up to maybe 6 hours of play time and an embarrassing number of hours of my time.
On average, every one of us has one testicle. You're welcome.
Oh my f***; I actually finished a thing. Chapter 5 of 7 completely completed to completion. 6 is going to take me a while, but 7 should be short, so I think I'm kinda sorta maybe in way almost done.
Joke of the day: "Today's the day I work hard and accomplish a lot."
Thank you, Charles Atlas!
Took some good advice and ran a bunch of bloated images through tinypng.com and ended up shaving something like 60mb off my project's size. That's a pretty good percentage of the total size just from compressing some images
Implemented the "Player's Guide" into the game today. It's a hulking behemoth of dozens of pictures that added a lot of bulk to my project for no good reason. I like it, tho, download size be damned.
Hey, you! Yeah, you...have you saved your project lately? Just checking.
One player mentioned that the hint system in Lucidity wasn't specific enough. Well, I agree; it's a bit vague. Enter the Lucidity Player's Handbook. I'll put it in the game just as soon as I have...more time than I have.
I have about a day's worth of work until I finish this chapter of my game... I have for the last week, actually, but there's always something I want to add... This is how we end up spending years on a 'small' game.
Today I made a spider sprite. I wanted it to be small, so I made it small...then I realized I couldn't actually see it...maybe I'll try again.
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