(Hibi is the placeholder pink square here, and also a put-upon mother and acclaimed author.)

Had a coworker who had a similar problem. Eventually, we figured out that it was static electricity buildup--it only happened when he touched a piece of metal the power cable was also touching, after walking down a long carpeted hallway. It was just enough to cause the monitor to power cycle.

So, to work around it, I have a completely separate sprite, that's 16x3, that's just the top 3 rows of the doorframe's tile, and I set it exactly on top of doorframe, and set it's z-index to 1, so it draws on TOP of the player.

Annoying fun fact: because the doorways are Just A Tile, the player sprite draws on top of them. This includes the upper doorframe. That looks silly when the player is trying to go inside.

Finally polishing up a few of the more placeholder areas now that I've found some house tilesets I like. Props to the 8-Bit Adventure Pack: https://ci.itch.io/8-bit-adventure-pack
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Loving the Ember pieces you've been posting lately. They're so expressive.

This was what my testing area looked like once I'd finished getting everything working again. Look at her go!
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Had to fix up some of my reflection math. That meant reworking all the player character's secondary sprites' reflection offsets. Accidentally left animation interpolation on for the tail.
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(Drawn by @pixelatederic.bsky.social who was quite patient with me)

Been quiet about the game, but I've been making some progress on cutscenes. But mostly, I've been waiting for...
player character sprites!
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what

WHAT

W H A T

And looking at the Eth wallet at least, it looks like they didn't actually get anything. It's all meme coins.

I'm a big fan of safety razors. There's a definite learning curve, and it takes some trial and error to find blades your face likes, but it's so much easier to get a smooth face with one.

If anyone goes this route, I recommend a sampler pack of blades to start.

The second is more exciting for me personally: a dialogue previewer! No more booting up the game just to see if my dialogue actually fits, or if it feels right! I reused my existing DialogueBox control with *almost* no changes.

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Two things tonight! The first is short and sweet. The inventory has a blinky cursor now! Also planning on adding a little panel to the top with item names.

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I *adore* both the character concept, and the execution of it. Love it love it love it!

Tonight's room.

When you've got a good tileset (thanks, affordable asset packs!) they're fun! Like little narrative jigsaw puzzles, that fight you occasionally re: collision sizes and y-sort offsets.

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You ever get real deep into the coding mines? Where you're like, four nested function calls deep, you can't keep the context in your head anymore?

Nothing better than saying "no, fuck it" and deleting it in favor of something simple.

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I'd be too busy making googly eyes at that Terra print...
(though the centaurs are also lovely!)