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Today I randomly had the urge to revisit a fondly remembered video of yesteryear... Still internet perfection!

I got a Hat in Time not too long ago on steam. My lappytoppy can't play it all that well unless I really put it on minimal settings but it's still cute as heck and tons of fun! I would have waited till it was ported to the switch, but I wanted to play with the new DLC and all the mods too.

While I was at it, I also decided to start Super Mario Odyssey as well (I have had it for a while, but always put off playing it). It's super fun too! It isn't quite as cute though. It's still cute, but not little girl with a big top hat cute, ya know? Other then that it's striking how similar the two games are.

I think my favorite '3D platformer' of all time might still be Brave Fencer Musashi, although Brave Fencer Musashi definitely follows it's own kind of formula and leans more in the direction of Zelda then Mario sometimes, so it might not be a fair comparison.

I was working on my game today! I started on a feature I have been wanting to do for a bit: Puzzle maps! It's a common feature in many Mystery Dungeon style roguelikes to have a collection of puzzle maps that can also double as a kind of tutorial. The first puzzle map I made to test it out for example is a map filled with rocks you can only get around by moving diagonally.

Hehe, It's fireworks time near by house. I can see them out my window! X3

Yeah I know it's not the 4th yet but my city always has it a day early for some reason.

I forgot to say anything about it, But I picked up Super Mario Maker 2 on Friday. Didn't even know that was the day it was released, I just happened to be visiting gamestop that day. Might have gotten the last copy too, or at least there were no more cases on display.

Anyway, I don't have Nintendo's dumb switch online thing, but it's still fun to mess around with and play the story mode. Yeah, I could have gotten a bundle deal thing with a year of switch online for a bit extra, but honestly? I kinda thing switch online is kinda scammy and if I pay for it it will only encourage Nintendo to do it more.

Also, I hear you can get it for free with twitch prime, which you can get for free with amazon prime, which my parents might have sine they use amazon a ot maybe. Donno. Even that might be encouraging Nintendo too much.

But anyway, yeah Mario Maker 2 is pretty fun to mess with. Don't like the touch controls for editing much as they are way too finicky, but I just feel that way about all touch screens.  Playing with it kinda makes me want to restart my old Super Mario World romhacking project: The Adventures of Jiggles the Catgirl. I have thought of maybe someday restarting the project as it's own stand alone game instead of as a romhack, but it's kinda unlikely at this point.

Ah, ya gotta love old demoscene demo music. Even if that visuals seem a bit dated and looks like something from the After Dark screensavers, the music is always... well... The title of the demo says it all doesn't it? :P I don't think the playback quality is the best though.

It was the summer solstice yesterday! Hope everyone had fun!

Holy Moly!  They are actually finally officially released a version of Seiken Densetsu 3/Secret of Mana 2 in English (called Trials of Mana now apparently)? What's next? An official English version of Mother 3? Who knows? I mean, now that Reggie has retired he isn't around to throw fireballs at people for asking.

Too bad everyone who cared probobly already played the unofficial version to death and moved on. Maybe I will pick up the remake they are making? I would like to see if they fixed any of the many many issues the original game had!

Can you imagine if they decided to remake Mother 3 like that? It would be funny given it was originally gonna be a 3D n64 game.

I think I am gonna add some difficulty options to my game or something. Before I kinda wanted to do old school roguelike full permadeath and still kinda want that to be an option, but i have played played dark souls a bunch recently and I like how it handles progression and death. So I was thinking maybe it would be better to just have you lose your items and progress to the next level instead of reseting your level completely... We will see!

I was just experimenting with if statements that used if statements as conditions in ruby.

Yes, you can do that.

Only reason I was curious to see how well it worked was I sometimes want to do something like:

unless ( if something
    do_something
  end or if somethingelse
    do_somethingelse
  end )
  do_nothing
end

Or in other words, I want something to happen if and only if nothing else happens. The usual way I end up doing this is like this:

done = false
if something
  do_something
  done = true
end
if somethingelse
  do_somethingelse
  done = true
end
do_nothing unless done

But it sort of bugs me that I need a variable. Not a big deal, but I wonder if there is a better way?

Note: The last line of an inner if statement needs to set a value for that kind of funny nested if statement to work.

Edit: Oh, actually it wouldn't work the way I want due to short circuiting I think... I thought using 'or' rather then '||' would disable that but apparently not.