Posting in 2019 LUL

So it's been a long time! I've been both very busy and pretty lazy. Here's a run down of my current situation.

DOSJUN is still alive, but in a different form: while I plan to release the full scenario eventually, for now I'm going to concentrate on releasing a smaller and more focused game which will run in the same engine. Hopefully this will help highlight any problems before they become huge issues. Some work has already been done on the content and mechanics for this smaller dungeon.

I'm working on a fairly small platformer that will run in the browser. It's certainly a big change from DOS's limitations! I expect that project might release early next year. It would be nice to finish something :)

I'm very recent news, I've been writing a FORTH implementation designed to run on the Z80 chip. This is just for my own curiosity, though I have access to a real Timex Sinclair 2068 and it would be neat to see it in action. I'm almost at the point where users can type in real programs (like the built in BASIC interpreter mode) but not quite. Once it does that, I'll put it on GitHub and everyone (nobody) can shout at me for writing terrible assembly.

I also just realised it could run on the Gameboy with some modifications, like not having keyboard input. Huh.

I've been spending a fair bit of time on the Xbox this year because I set myself a score challenge. I'm also going to America again in a few weeks so I want to get even more ahead so there's no crunch time later in the year.

I've been semi-regularly streaming all kinds of things on my Twitch channel.

I finally finished my League of Legends placements for this season and got put in Bronze 2. I haven't played any Ranked since.

That's about it. Sorry for being quiet for so long!

what it is my doge

So I've been doing a fair amount of gaming and programming lately, here's some highlights:

• Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires is still a lot of fun albeit a little derivative. Sure, the series basically doesn't change, but it still does what it does, well. I've got most of the achievements already. Just need to finish Guan Du and Chi Bi and play as a bunch of other people. I wish they'd make more interesting achievements for the DW games. Maybe I'll get DW Gundam, those look better.
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is also on my Now Playing list. Looks good so far, very WRPG-lets-you-do-anything-you-damn-well-want although the enemies I'm getting to now hit me for about a billion damage so you probably can't do things THAT out of order. I know Aphox speedran the game in about 4 hours so it must be fairly breakable. I'm playing as a Mage which probably blows but whatever. I feel like I'll end up playing this game multiple times.
• Pokémon SoulSilver is back in my DS and I'm actually playing it. It's probably my favourite one yet; the pokémon don't look dumb yet, and the mechanics of Gen4, though there's about eight thousand moves I don't know the effect of now. I just caught Lugia, and now I have to do the dreaded Victory Road. My party isn't very powerful.
• League of Legends still occupies a lot of my time; I've found a few people to play ARAMs with and they're a bunch of laughs.