Rorasuketo Dev Blog

For those who don't know, I both work in education part-time and am taking 2-3 university classes per semester - and much of  Rorasuketo  was completed during binges in spring, summer, and winter breaks. We are currently approaching midterms, which is possibly the worst time to launch and promote a video game, but I chose this time because I was tired of waiting around. Also, Mitten Kitten  (October 10!) was going to be a really cool opportunity to get the word out, and getting the word out is easier when you have something tangible to offer people. This might affect my grade point average and work life a little bit. I'm trying to accept that. I made choices, and there are consequences to those choices. Rora  is about mental health, so I feel like I can (and should?) be honest about mine. It's taking a little dip into the "not great" category. My class and work schedule is a little wonky, where there are gaps of maybe 30 to 45 minutes between each; I am one of tho...

Yes. Some have been found. I knew it would happen, but it's still disappointing. Obviously, I am going to have to fix these things! There is a bug wherein some money  seems  to magically appear in your pocket at one point before Chapter 2, and it might have to do with can and bottle returns. This is probably one of the better bugs to have, so to that I say: Keep recycling! The game is supposed to prevent you from carrying gifts in hand when the team is not around, but apparently I missed a map. You  can  stop carrying a gift by selecting it again in the menu screen, as I believe  The Joy of Gifts  tells you, though I know that's not intuitive. But that's the "fix" for this moment. I am also checking on a potential Confidence issue, but I need more background first. There are two kinds of bugs. Oh, I have a pretty good idea how that might have happened, and I know where to look. I have no idea where this is coming from or where to even start looking. Th...

It is easy to feel like a phony or a rat or a sellout in the beginning of the marketing and promotion shuffle.  Does my stupid little thing even deserve to be seen by anyone? I must be crazy thinking this is going to go anywhere. I don't want to beg for someone to pay attention to what I'm doing. Why am I promoting when I could just be working on my art?  And so on. It feels like a real uphill slog. But I find self-promotion is coming more easily with practice and just a little headway. By this stage, much of that doubt is transforming into "I get to meet all these cool people and talk to them about interesting stuff." The trick is finding those people and getting through the rejections. Perhaps I'm just very, very lucky. I'm imagining if I had decided to make, say, a gruesome first-person shooter tailored to assholes, and how much of a chore it would be for me to navigate that culture. (Maybe assholes are your thing, but they are not mine.) Instead, I'm t...

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

There has been a lot of confusion about Macintosh compatibility, and I am still trying to wrap my head around it. I might need to adjust this later, but here's my current understanding. Take with salt, and feel free to do your own searching. Do please correct me if I'm grossly incorrect. (To get the most accurate answer, download the demo at rorasuketo.win . Your Mac may give you a security warning. But if you get past that and the demo works, you should be good to go!) Short, "safe" answer: Rorasuketo  will run on your Mac for a year with Rosetta 2. But in a year, Apple will make big changes that may stop many apps, including  Rorasuketo , from running. ( See the section below titled "So, if you are on a Macintosh, should you buy/play  Rorasuketo?" ) Also, Rora is 32-bit, and I don't see an immediate 64-bit option in the game deployment. So if you are restricted to 64-bit apps for whatever reason, this won't fly. Longer, more accurate and nuanced a...