I don’t have a whole lot to talk about right now because doing so would involve spoiling things. But I can tell you that this is becoming a regular sight for me:
Not that exact screen, of course. Just lines and lines of code. For a wonder, I understand most of it.
What I like about VSCode is the ability to have themes. You can make your workspace look as glaring as an unforgiving noonday summer sun, or as mucky and gloomy as Gollum’s fetid cave. I chose a delicious dark chocolate theme until it became almost too dark to make out the lighter text. Then I went with a milk chocolate theme. It isn’t as rich for the senses, but at least I don’t have to squint after several hours.
What I hate about VSCode is the aggressive autocorrect. Not entirely. I mean, it was fun to have dialogue suggestions like, “He is a man. An important man. And he is doing important things.” I almost wanted to Tab them into existence and comment them out, just to keep little mementos of this sedentary adventure.
It wasn’t fun to have the program insist that I meant “desktop” when I surely as fuck meant just “desk”.
When might this little project be out? I hope to have the demo (vertical slice, really) operational before the end of this month. Right now, most of the coding is done. I want to replace the godawful title screen, include some bitcrushed music, and… oh, yeah, draw around seventeen backgrounds and animation slides, because I refuse to execute this like a traditional visual novel.
At least it should be done before I head to Florida next month. If I can accomplish that—and pack all my childhood belongings into a minivan to transport them back to North Carolina—I will consider this year a rousing success. Take that, MLIS degree.