Rorasuketo Dev Blog

Saturday, October 10! The Ingham County Fairgrounds south of Lansing, Michigan! It's Mitten Kitten! Get tickets in advance and save about $5. It's $27 for a Saturday day pass, which sounds pretty steep, except that there will be roller derby happening  all day  and two tracks going at once. Kids 10 and under are free. If you want to come after 4 pm for the headliners, it's $16. We will be setting up just before the doors open at 8:30 and be staying as long as we can stand it. It's been a fun weekend for Rorasuketo  and a terrible weekend for homework. But, you know, sometimes life's pendulum swings a little one way or the other. Right now the pendulum is swinging in the direction of flights of fancy! It's hard to focus on Newman projections when you can instead sit in awe of this bizarre new life you're living. The other half of Tibbs-Babu Publishing sewed this starry purple fabric (thanks to Louise for the fabric!) to a black tablecloth to give it a little...

...we launched  Rorasuketo. I had a lot of fun last night on the webcast. While I didn't enjoy all of our tech problems (both Mike and Tiffany were having chaotic days, so we did not have time to test our ill-fated Zoom call), I was surprised by how much we all had to talk about as the night went on. Thank you so much to everyone who came by in the chat to say hello, ask questions, and generally make us look cooler. And a big thank you to Mike, who took a peek in the actual Steam files and noticed that the folder was called "Rorasuketo Alpha 1.05," which made me just about shit my pants. On Steam, there are several buttons you have to hit to make a build go live, and I had forgotten one of them. After about a half an hour of panicking - and an error I still cannot replicate or understand - we managed to update things, and v1.00 is what is now live. If your version of  Rorasuketo  still says Alpha on the title screen, please reboot Steam, restart your computer, pray to wha...

I'm on campus trying to focus on anthropology and chiral carbons, but Lala and I have other things on our minds. It's the final countdown . It's happening. Tonight at 6P Eastern US time. Join us. https://www.youtube.com/live/IgPbA0SKQ1I?is=RmZvMeqz6e3eWwKF

I've had the pleasure of reading a few very kind and encouraging comments from the sum of  Rorasuketo's  online presence. Folks, know that when you do that kind of thing, it pays huge dividends for a tired indie game developer. People took time out of their day to look at my thing, and they felt compelled to take even more time to let me know they liked it. That's incredible! There's this weird experience I am having lately where I look around, trying to make sure people are walking around me and not through me, and I am, in fact, real. And I think to myself, "It's almost like this is a legitimate thing I am doing." And  it is,  by most measurements I'm aware of. Or at least it kind of looks like it is. When putting  Rorasuketo  on Steam, someone told me that I should set a goal for sales. I thought up a very, very small number - because I have occasional delusions of grandeur - and have kept telling myself that  that is the number that will make me h...

  We are keeping it classy around here. It's not Dom Perignon, but it will do fine! I welcome you to join me at the start of the webcast in treating yourself to a little bubbly. Whether it be LaCroix, sparkling cider, a porter, or the good stuff, it will be great partying with you! Also, have a secondary container ready. One day to go! 6P Eastern/3P Pacific TOMORROW!

I dove back into SteamPipe last night to upload the official version 1.00 of the game, so we are ready to push the button to launch at any time. It's exciting. Usually, my cats dominate my living space, whether it's sleeping butthole-to-head, occupying comfy chairs, or having a good old fashioned lap-sit. Normally, I don't have the heart to move them. But when SteamPipe is on my monitor, cats are unceremoniously removed from my desk. Usually multiple times. They are very confused by this. But I'm not taking any chances. When I am on a computer, phone, app, etc. as a user, everything seems very stable and safe and under control. But when working with  my  project, everything feels so remarkably fragile. Could a keystroke in the SteamPipe UI break everything? What if I uncheck a box in RPG Maker and the whole thing crashes on launch? Is the entire electronic world teetering on the brink of disaster as much as it feels my work does? Probably not. But then there's alway...