Happy new year, everyone! Or at least, everyone who follows the same calendar as me!
I made some changes to this website. I didn't do them all at once, it's more of a progressive thing.
- I tweaked the color palette for better contrast, and removed the different colors for internal/external links. It was especially bad in the Fourmidable demo in light mode.
- I switched to serif for body text. It's the same font as titles: Georgia, and your local serif font as backup. I like the idea of using a serif font when every brand thinks it's outdated and tries to be minimalist and shit. Including me sometimes.
- I included subtitles in some headers, but reader mode hides them, so I might stop.
- I removed old articles from the RSS feed. 7 articles feel like a sweet spot, like an album with 7 tracks. Too many would make the file too heavy. Especially since…
- I now paste the entire article in the RSS feed instead of just the start. Finally discovered how to do it without breaking the feed.
- On new posts, the date isn't a title anymore, to keep semantics clean.
- I added the UTF-8 tag to new pages. Just in case.
My goal is to maintain this blog at least until May when it'll be one year old. Things will probably evolve again.
Works in progress
Right now, I'm on holidays and making board game prototypes. My ideas go from chess variants, to classic dice-based race games, to emergent and/or RPG-like mechanics. There are so much games developed over those past millenia.
Also, the Super Note project is still in progress. I'm thinking of making it a top-down adventure instead of yet another platformer. Jumping wasn't much of an important verb anyway. Our hero Super Note should concentrate on listening, playing music, teaching music, and saving people. That is certainly a much less trodden path.
I will make a blog post about Super Note.
Other stuff
My family's Wii is still working after 18 years of faithful service. I guess it's now a retro console. Even "modern retro" games like UFO 50 curiously have a wide screen output instead of 4:3 like the Wii. I kinda like 4:3, it balances the interface a bit, and it's sometimes more usable and pleasant.
There's not much else to say. Now get out of my website!