Created this simple start screen for when the game first loads. When I have more money to invest in this thing, I'll give it a makeover, but this'll do for now.

Worked on the main menu screen today. The moon diety is my favorite part (shoutout to Jason Perry) I didn't have enough time to add the center menu or to pick the font I wanted. But I feel sick and miserable, so my day was cut short. I'll prolly finish this on Monday.

Most attempts to make the web harder to scrape will also make it less accessible. Hard to prevent static analysis without also breaking screen readers

"When Christ enters the heart, life changes. Christ is everything." -St. Porphyrios

Cat-alog Chronicles, a cozy game devlog: You're a cat librarian and aspiring novelist. Help patrons find books, clean up messes, add to library inventory, buy bigger buildings for your bigger library, and make time to write your novel in this cute and cozy mobile game.

"Nothing is more praised or loved by God like a gentle, humble, and grateful soul." -St. John Chrysostom

Today, I added our first community-inspired NPC: Catherine. She is a housewife who can most often be seen watering her garden. Being a good southern woman, her catchphrase is "Bless your heart." Her favorite genre is historical fiction and her favorite book is The Winter Sea.

Today, I added the logic behind leveling up your library building for the first 4 levels. For every patron you help and mess you clean, your library earns more cash. You can use this cash to buy more books, afford library assistants, or build a bigger library.

Excalibur v0.30.0 has been released! ⚔️ We have a host of brand new features: GPU Particles, Bezier Curves, Nine-Slice Sprites, Tiling Sprites, Slide Scene Transition, and a WHOLE BUNCH of perf improvements excaliburjs.com/blog/excalibur… #excaliburjs #gamedev #typescript

An early Christmas gift from myself. Twas a good day.

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Remkus de Vries Why would you ask such painful questions?

For this year's last devlog, I've added some game info to the top of the screen as well as a Player Journal (pause menu). 2024 was a good year. Here's to launching Catalog Chronicles in 2025!

Excalibur v0.30.3 released! We've improved the realistic collision solver in TileMaps. Added a new event hook onDraw() to postprocessors, and fixed some crashes on Xiaomi phones! Bringing game dev to web dev! Get started today excaliburjs.com/docs/quick-sta… #typescript #gamedev

Woo! Our new flappy bird tutorial made the Gamedev.js Weekly Newsletter! #gamedev #typescript

🗺️ New version of the Excalibur.js Tiled plugin v0.30.2 is out!🔥 * Adds the ability to configure collider behavior deeply on a per layer basis * Fixes issues with rotating tile colliders and templates `npm i @excaliburjs/plugin-tiled` github.com/excaliburjs/ex… #gamedev #webdev

Worked on the inventory interface today. Most of these items the character can collect but doesn't use. Instead the player can either sell them for gold or gift them for greater friendship with NPCs. The coin bag up top will indicate how much gold the player can have.

This week I made it feel more like a game. A lot of good progress this week.