09/05/2024, 12:21 PM
well howdy there. i don't know if i'm gonna keep updating the site daily like this for long, just because i tend to lose steam when i work on something like this nonstop for a long time, but i'm on a roll so here's an update post. to begin, as of yesterday the site is now live! yes, it's been in the works for a long time now but i finally worked up the courage to put this out for everyone to see. i wanted to make sure every section on the site had at least SOMETHING in it before making the site accessible, and some segments do that better than others. (look no further than the mostly barren gamedev tab, which is probably going to stay that way for a while since i have a famously wobbly drive to work on my games. i'll probably touch it up a bit at least, but... don't expect to see many links to other games for a while.)
next on the list of updates is presentation. i finally swapped out the background of the whole site to be what i wanted it to be from the start, the Diet Building from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. specifically the room that Mot, my namesake, resides in. how could i not? it's perfect. for some reason this took me a really long time to get around to, it's probably just because going into an emulator and getting a really good screenshot of a late game area from a really specific angle wasn't really something i wanted to do... because that sounded kinda boring. shoutouts to my roommate for helping me get a PS2 save file from GameFAQs working on emulator so i could get that screencap, by the way. it's a little fuzzy, and that's cuz i had to zoom it in a little. it's surprisingly difficult to disable the HUD in SMT:N for some reason, i couldn't find a single cheat code that did it. after about an hour of fiddling around with several graphics settings we just decided to give up and try to crop out the HUD. and it turned out a lot better than we expected honestly! so cool, i guess that worked out. and i updated the window colors to be more in line with the colors in that background. your welcome, because it looked really rough with the gray windows. you might have also noticed the little textbox in the top right on the home page. please tell me you did. that's the random message box! it'll spit out random little blurbs of text every time you refresh the page. this was an idea i had really early on and wanted to implement, but i was struggling to get it to work since it required Javascript. i ended up just stealing someone else's code to get it to work for now, and i'll figure out how it works later. the point is, it works. every now and then i might add a couple new blurbs in there, so make sure to always give it a little peek. and no, i definitely DIDN'T steal this idea from starmen.net. i would never do such a thing. last thing i wanna address on the home page is that little window at the bottom that has a video in it. that's my newest video. i do make videos and put them up on YouTube (usually just about stuff that i've been thinking about or like a lot. which is sort of like this site, now that i think about it) so if that sounds like something you'd be interested in, go take a look at it.
last thing i wanna talk about real quick is future updates. what's next? well, i plan to keep updating the site tabs as always, and i'll usually try to push out big updates all at once, maybe near the end of the day, instead of incrementally updating it throughout the day. that just seems like the better option, honestly. as for how often updates are gonna happen, i dunno. like i said in the opening, it really all depends on just how into it i am, but generally speaking, the Words, Things, and Reviews sections are gonna be updated the most frequently, Artwork and Stamps might be a little less common, and Games is going to be the least frequent. i think also turning the navigation menu into a row of buttons might look a lot better than the current text setup i've got going on. there's also eventually gonna be more on the home page, it's just that i've been struggling to get things to sit side-by-side, which i think would look the best. and maybe, when the technology is there, maybe i could have a feedback system or an indicator to tell you if you've looked at new stuff on the site? maybe? that's pretty far in the future though, so don't expect that anytime soon. alright, that's gonna be all for today. thanks for reading, and thanks for checking in on the site!