Steam Next Fest is about a month and a half away, which means I need to submit Hyperspin for Valve’s approval roughly two weeks before it actually starts. And that got me thinking: “Hey, why not document my progress here? That could be a fun little thingyy”… So I’ll be updating this post daily with how things are going.

Day 1 - 9/4/26

I didn’t do much besides work on maps. I also worked on improving the editor UX for a bit. For whatever reason clicking on objects would only select them when the mouse button was released instead of pressed. I have no idea why, but that was changed. It feels so much better to use now.

Day 2 - 9/5/26

Not much work done today besides simple code changes and starting work on a new song. I’ve added a new feature for text objects where you can coordinate using either coordinates (x & y components) or radial coordinates (distance & angle). I don’t feel very productive right now, which makes me feel kinda sad!

Side tangent: I’ve recently found out about this thing called “GPT-6 Astra”, which people can use to make shitty tech demos or whatever. I’ve already given my thoughts on AI generated stuff a couple blog posts ago, but let me just make the point again (in case I haven’t…), I will never support, nor pay for any product which uses “Generative AI” in any front-facing way (art, music, etc..). If I find out a game I’m playing uses AI in this manner, I will put it down immediately, leave a negative review, and refund it if possible as quickly as possible. It is an insult to life itself.

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Day 3 - 9/6/26

No work done today. I had to do yard work.

Day 4 - 9/7/26

Worked on maps, streamed on Twitch. I don’t do that often anymore!

Day 5 - 9/8/26

The map I made yesterday might not even make it into the game because of Shirobon’s licensing changes. I’ll need to review that. Sad. I’ve been doing miscellaneous editor improvements today, but I’ve mostly been working on Skia bindings for Beef to use in the game.

Day 6 - 9/9/26

Worked on editor stuff. Again, not much work today. I’ve been feeling very depressed lately, which sucks.

Day 7 - 9/10/26

It sucks that I’ve been going through a depressive episode lately. I absolutely do not want to work on this game right now, which is very unfortunate given the circumanstances. I’m hoping I can at least get the discipline to finish it…

Day 8 - 9/11/26

I’ve been feeling a lot better today and I’ve actually done enough work to get a new song off the ground. It’s very unconventional and I’m not sure if people will like it… Oh well!

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Day 9 - 9/12/26

Didn’t have much of a chance to work on much today, I was at work (like my actual real job) for most of it. Sadge.#

Day 10 - 9/13/26

My job called me today for an emergency so I ended up spending about 5 hours at work today instead of working on the game. Unfortunate. But nevertheless, I was able to get a lot done today and I’m feeling quite happy about it!

I’ve been working on redesigning the editor UI because it was just so ugly, and after about 12 hours of work, it now looks much better!

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I had to recompile dear imgui and modify it to make this look possible, which was kind of a pain because dear imgui isn’t that well designed, but it was so worth it. It looks so much nicer than before. Eventually I want to look into recreating the editor from scratch, maybe during or after Early Access, but for now, this will work great! I’m feeling good about the game now.

Whenever I’m dealing with a problem in my life, like I’m stuck in some boring meeting or church service or whatever else, I’ll internally ask myself: “is this worse than high-scool?”. The answer is almost always “no”.

That makes me feel better sometimes.

I miss the days when everyone used forums! You could join a forum, post on a thread that was two weeks too hold for the mods’ liking and get banned. Whatever happened to those days? We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! And you threw it all away!

Now everyone is on Reddit and X or whatever. There’s a reason you don’t see any social media links on this site. I officially jumped ship from that experiment a while ago. Bluesky is just a complete mess, I don’t even lurk.

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Every community is shifting its content to Discord, which is a real shame, because Discord is fucking terrible for long-scale communications. They “tried” “fixing” this a while ago when they added this feature called “threads” and that kinda fixes the problem, but not really.

I understand why they’re all switching, though. Managing accounts is difficult, and servers aren’t particularly cheap. It’s a real shame and there’s no real solution to this.

In my attempts to create a better world, i’ve been working on a forums system written from scratch for the new game that will release very soon. And it isn’t easy, but I feel ideologically inclined to. I have to do my part in creating a better world.

While I’m here, I may as well talk about AI for a little bit. This blog has existed for a little over 5 years now but I’ve never really gotten “real” here. It’s always just been status updates or whatever. And, when I say “AI”, I’m referring specifically to “generative AI” (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Plok, whatever else).

I don’t really care that much, however, when I learn that a really good story that I was reading turned out to actually be written by AI, I can’t help but feel slightly betrayed.

It just doesn’t have the same emotional connection something handwritten would have. I can’t intellectually defend this feeling, but that’s just how it feels to me. And when it comes to art, I feel like this matters more than anything else.

There are some places where AI can be useful; for example when creating concept art or prototype textures or whatever for some artist to ‘clean up’ later, but I’d advise you don’t use it for any public-facing work. Maybe I’m just an out-of-touch boomer or something. I don’t know.

I’ll never forgive it for destroying the em-dash.

Ever since I was a small child, I can remember thinking getting frontpaged on Newgrounds was the thing you did when you “made it”.

Well, I finally achieved that goal. After trying a total of one (1) time. Honestly, I should be proud of myself, and I am!

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I ended up updating the game 6 times between the time it was updated and today. Honestly, it was fun missing work because I spent all night trying to implement the Newgrounds API, just so I could have leaderboards on the bottom of the page nobody cares about. That’s called priorities.

I don’t trust credit cards. I don’t even like the fundamental concept of them.

Economies have pretty much always relied on debt. This isn’t some modern innovation, it’s ancient. So ancient, in fact, that the Bible explicitly warns against it multiple times:

“The borrower is servant to the lender.” — Proverbs 22:7

Credit cards are designed—intentionally—to rope people in, especially young people, and turn them into lifelong debt slaves. If you don’t pay off your balance in full, it racks up serious interest. Add in late fees, annual fees, and penalty APRs, and it can become a shitshow quickly.

People tend to spend more when using credit cards than when paying with cash. That’s because there’s no immediate sense of loss. It detaches you from the consequences, and, of course, this encourages poor budgeting and impulse buying. So when online services force you to use a credit card, it’s especially shitty.

They lure people into living beyond their means and chasing materialism, both directly opposed to Jesus’ warning about storing up treasures on Earth.

Some people will say, “just be more responsible, bro lol.”

As if any societal problem in history has ever been solved by telling people to “just” do anything. I’ve never been convinced by any argument telling people to just “do anything”. No one in the history of ever has just done anything, and they’re not going to start now.

When Senators Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders introduced a bill capping credit card interest rates at 10%, a bunch of dipshit conservatives clutched their pearls over it. They panicked and said stuff like:

BuT lEsS pEOpLE WIlL HAvE CREDIT CaAAARRDS!!!!

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Let’s not forget: banks don’t actually like giving you “points.” You only get them because someone else failed to pay their balance and is now getting drained by interest. The banks make their profit off of them, and that surplus gets funneled into your rewards.

They’re not giving out free money out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re robbing the less fortunate to make you feel like you’re winning. Let’s call it what it is: usury. And usury is theft.

If the Antichrist is alive today, this is definitely one of his masterpieces, right alongside hormonal birth control and Domino’s.

This post ended up just being a huge bitchpost, I don’t have any solutions to give. I just wanted to scream because it’s my site and I can write whatever I want.

In conclusion: credit cards are literally (literally) works of the Antichrist. Just use Cash App.