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Day 151 / 365 Today was a pretty simple day. I just worked on one turret recode lol. I did some totally complex math stuff to figure out tile rotating better as im starting to implement the 2x2 tiles. I probably could have just looked up what I needed lol. The main issue is that in my game, tiles will always have a root at the bottom left, so rotations arent truly around one tile, but rather the center of the building which gets a bit icky. So ultimately its just the rotate around 0,0 but offsets are applied based on tile size. I still need to add placing them, but then im nearly done (excluding the very special behaviors like the constructor / combiner and the drill which is a producer tile that has to read the map tiles). So yeah overall fairly productive in that regard. Dont have much else to say lol.

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Day 149 / 365 Today was... somehow more unproductive than yesterday!! >:C But it was a generally fun day even though I didnt play that many games. I worked 20 minutes on my horizons quiz game project thing, adding in some cool preview images for each of the gamemodes. I also got "deleting" datasets to work. In reality it just changes it so it hides the quiz. If you attempt to add a new quiz using the same csv, it will just toggle it back to being visible, that way all the configs for that quiz are still saved! Rest of my day was spent out of the house with my dad and brother. I dropped my brother of at swim and ended up just having a bonding moment with my dad at the closest mall. Its a generally unoccupied mall. not a lot of buisness happens there (in terms of the internal mall stuff. the clothes stores and resturants on the outside of it do get a lot of buisness though). me and my dad walked through and had a chat, even walking into a craft store. didnt buy anything but still chatted. We also got some handsoaps that we thought my mom would like :) We got two of a vanilla almond one. One for me. Because I liked it. :yay: i love vanilla smelling things. and cinnamon! anyways after that me, my brother, and my dad went to applebees. im mentioning this because thats like a once-in-a-blue-moon-during-a-solar-eclipse thing and its lowkenuinly been like 3 years. when we got home it turns out my mom had recently gotten hand soaps. so now we just have 15 things of hand soap. please help. 5 hand soaps per sink including the kitchen😭 and on my horizons stuff. I think ive ultimately come to the conclusion that im NOT going to be going to nexus for various reasons. One of the reasons is the hours required. Especially given hackclub stardance is happening soon. I plan to be starting a thing with my club to get them into stardance so they can make some stuff. Also that club ysws, and other stuff. Im going to be getting a lot busier soon so im less confident in getting the hours. other reason is I dont think i really want to go anymore. Dont get me wrong it sounds fun but like. is it really worth all the hours? I mean I definently think I had great memories at hackclub shiba, but that was a whole week. nexus, last i checked, is a nonstop hackathon over a weekend. So yeah uh. i think im going to cash my hours and possibly move my study app to a different program (i hear macondo has a lot of good prize options). If i were to ship my moved aces project as is, i would most likely get 2 steam game grants (for publishing a game on steam) and 4 blahaj plushies :)

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Day 147 / 365 Today was a nice productive day! I woke up earlier than usual so I could get to working on stuff :) I coded for 5 hours on my horizons study app project. I made the flashcard, memory match, and spelling modes for the game (er i guess its an app but like whats the difference LOL!!!). I also got the mastery tracker working (in quiz and flashcard, if you get a question right or wrong it stores that with the quiz. the mastery just refers the average of the past two attempts on each question). I also did some hardcore cleaning in my room. so yeah overall incredibly productive!!! I think tommorow I might try to make another hytale youtube video since recently hytale updated to update 5 and it added a ez command that cuts 4 minutes off of my old tutorial. plus that old tutorial is outdated anyways. Also yes. the spelling thing is a slight reference to a different game.

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Back to making my family game for Macondo after exams! So far I have finished: 50% of the first game Tic Tac Toe! I have the player turn system and an indicator for the same! Now i just have to make it so my code can detect currently occupied squares and hence check win conditions! I think I'm going to loop through all the squares next to one square and check if 3 in a row matches in any direction (up down left right) to check win. Similar to like a brute force attack you could say on win conditions.

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Day 145 / 365 Hi guys. Kaplin here!! Today was a very nice and chill day :) I did some concepting for a game idea that me and my friend group might try making. basically its a not-so-cozy farming game where theres a bunch of procedural plants. these plants have attributes (like spiky, glowing, explosive, etc.) that determine a lot of stuff. But also the plants dont have names, so you have to put your own name for each species in your logbook. You also have to experiment to find certain traits in a plant. You could also use a camera item to add photos of the plant to a book. I also played plenty of games today so thats not out of the ordinary. I didnt work on any of my horizons projects... and lowkey im wondering if i even want to go to horizons to begin with. I also have to ask about the flight grant stuff, and if I can get those after and still have a proper reimbursement. My parents are also worried since the venue really isnt public. Which is good, I dont think it should be public, but they are worried about me going if it looks like hackclub hasnt havent figured it out yet themselves.

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Day 144 / 365 Got some well needed sleeping-in time. Though, despite this, I cant say I did all that much important stuff. A lot of my day was spent watching anime with a online friend over discord call lol. I did fully implement the quiz game to my horizons study app. I also have some plans for a cool mastery tacking thing by just storing your last two attempts on any of the minigames. If you manage to get all questions right in two game sessions in a row, you would have maximum mastery for that dataset. How cool. anyways im going to be real for a second. Im extremely worried about horizons nexus. The event is in exactly 26 days. You are required to buy the ticket 2 weeks before the hackathon, so I need to get the 15 hour ticket within 11 days. Of my three horizons projects, I have one shipped. The previous ship took roughly 10 days to be completed, only to be denied in order to do a reship with my new hour count. Assuming this ship goes through with no reductions, I will hopefully be able to get the ticket in the next two days. This leaves 23 remaining days until the event. Lets say the hypothetical that I REALLY need to get the flight grant to go. Assuming that ships take 10 days to get accepted, that only leaves me 13 days remaining. A flight from my city to SF costs 550 dollars, and under horizons $8.5 grant per hour, that makes 68 hours. This means, I have to do 5 hours a day. Man. I dont know if i can truly go to horizons at this rate. Lets say in a hypothetical world where it only takes 3 days for a ship to get reviewed, I would only need to do 3.4 hours a day. Rough, but a lot more achievable. So uh. Yeah. Kaplin fun fact. I guess. IDK. I feel generally down today. probably because my little brother was just being a general nuisance for most of the day. but hey, thats little brothers for you. TLDR: Today was a great day with no flaws since i got to sleep in :)

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Day 143 / 365 Today was really fun! I attended a cybersecurity CTF hackathon locally. I got second place. It was pretty fun, even though I basically knew nothing. I atleast could recognize bitwise stuff from previous experience (i used hashes + bitwise for the generation of fully unique fellas in my hackclub giftbox game last year). We even held a ping pong tournament for some reason. I got lost in both my first match and my losers bracket match. Oh well still was very fun! Dispite getting home pretty late from that, I managed to get a hour of tracked coding in. I added a game definition resource to my study app horizons project. Now I can easily add new games to the game menu. I finished off coding a simple string-to-boolean-check function for the quiz resource, allowing me to add restrictions for some games without having to hard code it. For example, to play the quiz, you atleast need one column defined to be incorrect answers. In my string formatting, the string "incorrectColumn.length|!=|0". Using that, it checks if the incorrect column variable (uses godot's get() function. really handy.) has a length/size/count that isnt 0, meaning atleast 1 exist. Depending on that, the games will not be selectable + have an indicator :)

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No wifi dinosaur game with with a seal! stephanietanexist-maker.github.io/Infinite-seal-game I hope yall like the seal I drew for the sprite :D

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Day 139 / 365 What is up fellas. its me. kaplin. Back with another scrapbook post. Today was interesting. So my day started out by not having internet from some random internet shortage. Because of this, I wasnt fully certain hackatime would track (it would have), but i didnt want to take the risk so I held off coding. I instead played two peak downloaded offline fangames: PVZ fusion and pokemon infinite fusion. Kinda funny how both are fusion themed. I started a new save for the pokemon one. I also attached image of my team if anyones curious :) Anyways once the internet came back I got to the coding grind. I added a lot more polish to the game. i added a cool effect for when the players load, made the sky background have a zoom-like effect on load, made the players bob up and down, and I also made it so the other players are color modulated to fit their current aquired followers. But my most important addition was doing cool math stuff to effectively make a cinematic camera generator. I pass in a player position, it calculates face position, and gets a random location based on set angles and a distance. Im going to be using this at the start of a turn, and probably add some cool text that says "Player ??? Turn XYZ". Then it shows them roll the dice and which cards they use. But for now its just moving the camera to cool places. Had to learn a bit on how transform3ds work in godot. I still dont fully understand, but im getting there!!! On a side note, I did some baking. Found a recipe for some low carb pancakes or something and it looked interesting. It was just eggs + cream cheese lol. Turns out i suck at flipping pancakes so it ended up all mushed lol.

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Day 138 / 365 Today I did not do that coding grind i talked about yesterday. Only 30 tracked minutes. Then again, I did spend my morning trying to figure out some stuff for my online summer self-paced chemistry class. But more importantly, I spent a good bit of time planning. Im picking up the game from the aces ysws to continue working on it. I mean it already got moved to horizons, so it would be unwise to just let those hours rot. So I did a bit of analysis of my own game. In summary: It sucks. The game is lowkey bad. But I have devised plenty of things to help make the game better, with a bit of feedback from my friends. Started by making a 3d model of the little follower figurines for the board. Previously those were a bunch of 2d images but it looks so much better in 3d. The 30 minutes today was spent switching systems (from 2d image color modulation to swapping textures for the model for the various follower colors) Also did a bit of talking with an online friend. He wouldnt have been able to go to horizons nexus (san francisco), but he said that given the timing and the distance, he could go to horizons europa (Berlin). It would also be cheap hour-to-flight-grant-wise for him since hes in the uk. And if I work 3 hours a day on my projects, I could definently meet the required hours to go all the way there. I will be asking my parents tommorow if its fine with them.

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Seal card matching game! 😄 stephanietanexist-maker.github.io/Memory-card

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Day 136 / 365 Today was very chill. Didnt program lol. Its okay though, assuming I reached the deadline for the cool horizon stickers (i cant tell because on the announcement image it says due today while the text says due tommorow), i have the necessary 5 day streak. Not to long after I woke up, my family went to this one resturant. very country-side themed. all you can eat resturant. very small menu though, with only 3 main dishes: Chicken, ham, and roast beef. I didnt eat much of the chicken as im not the biggest fan of eating things from the bone lowkey. I drew meat on the bone in todays doodle because i am not going to try and draw a slice of ham. Either way this place is important as me and my family used to go here a lot a long time ago, back when i was a little kaplin. It had closed down around the time of the pandemic (but we stopped going there a bit before that). Not to long ago, they reopened after 6 years of being closed, so we went there as a late mothers day gift (my mom was out of town on mothers day). So once i got home (roughly around 3pm in case you wanted to know) I mostly just played and chilled. I helped my friend regonold with his cave generation for his macondo game (macondo is a hackclub ysws btw). He consults me for help since im fairly good at hytale's world generation, so I can give a few pointers to help him. Its even better when your doing the generation yourself, since your not limited to the nodes. Ive also been considering making my steam game, one turret, open source. Im consulting the people of the one turret discord server on what they think, and I will probably ask regonold tommorow when hes online since he is the biggest one turret fan.

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Day 135 / 365 Today was a very lock-in type of day. I had to wake up really early to drive my dad to work (he has vision impariment and thus cant drive). But I used this early morning to my advantage, getting a good chunk of work on my horizons game done really early. I worked on getting models to load for dialogue, and also being able to search the model for the animation player to find available animations. Outside of coding, I really just played some mindustry and hypixel bedwars. I also tried to do some world gen stuff in hytale. i was hoping with their recent updates it would be easier to make a dungeon system, but turns out thats not the case and I gave up. I probably would need to find some guide in the hytale modding discord servers. I finally got my horizons ship back. I was told some changes i need to make (like make a full proper level), so I worked on that a bit. The level looks okay. its using some placeholder assets since i havent made any props yet. Its supposed to be a sorta city outskirts type of feel. In totality I did 4 hours today! Im probably going to ship it immediately after this post!

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Day 134 / 365 I lowkey didnt do all that much today since I slept in + had to immediately go tutor at the local church. this is the last day before the group we tutor has summer, so that means last day. I coded one hour on my horizons game to keep the streak (i want the holographic stickers they have for doing a 5 day streak right now) and in that hour i was sorta just debugging the custom dialogue editor. I was having some strange issue where godot wouldnt let me edit an array of a loaded resource? strange. anyways the way i fixed it was just creating a new empty dialogue holder resource and loading all the information in manually. Seems to do the trick!

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Day 133 / 365 Hi guys! I did some pretty cool stuff on my horizons game today :) I gave godot editor scripts a try for the first time so I can make a dialogue editor for my game to fit all the things i need (since doing it by hand would be a nightmare). I had a lot of trial and error. At first I was trying to make it so when it starts the command, it asks for a file, and then once you choose one it loads that resource into my dialogue editor, but for whatever reason it just... wouldnt work. i was running a simple await on a signal, but it never emit the signal? anyways i just reworked it so you press a load button in the editor to load the dialogue lol. Also played a bit more mindustry with friends :yay: (we didnt get too far into the map even after 3 hours)

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Day 131 / 365 My summer starts today but its probably going to take a while before everything settles down. Did a psych test and public speaking speech. so now im finally done!! yippee!!! so i lowkey just played for the rest of the day. I ate a celebratory dessert at a mexican resturant. this is sorta a tradition my family has been doing since I first started doing dual enrollment lol. Anwyhom I worked on my horizons game for an hour, I added a cool enemy trigger system where if you enter an area it will make all its child nodes visible and processing. this works for walls as well to box players in. I wanna lock in tommorow (and hopefully my horizons ship from 7 days ago will be accepted lol!!)

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Day 130 / 365 HELLOOO MY BEAUTIFUL AND AWESOME SCRAPBOOK POST READERS!! kaplin here. Today i got to sleep in! its been a while since i did that lol. Spent most of my day working on school to prepare for my final speech and psychology test tommorow. Also worked on getting that team project done for computer science. we got it done, with only 9 minutes to spare (submitted at 11:50 pm). i edited video for it since that was one of the requirements. I didnt work on my horizons game today sadly though :C anyways im going to go sleep i need to wake up early tommorow!! this is also why the doodle today is very basic i wanna go to bed

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Day 129 / 365 Today was very chill. I held a hackclub meeting. I got a bunch of bars from my last meeting since that was the prize. Candy bars would have worked, but I felt granola bars would be fun. The idea is that the bars look like the bricks in a brick breaker. how cute! Since I wasnt really able to find any workshops that were all that immediate interest (and plus for the first week after my last meeting i had bigger fish to fry lowkey), I sorta made my own workshop on the fly lol. We continued 3d modeling from my meeting on day 87. Instead of making a house, we made a car and then made a driveway for our houses, then added the car. Once I got home from my meeting, I got to work on the computer science group project... tommorow I have to get it done because its due, and maybe since its the day its due my teammates will do something!!!!! on my horizons game i spent an hour making a status effect system. Seems to work pretty well with a basic slowness effect.

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Day 128 / 365 Forgot to mention in my other post that my aces game got moved over to horizons, but its probably going to be a minute before i work on it to get it into a shippable state. Im thinking of what I want to do next for it. Lowkey im considering a rebrand, since my dad a while back made a comment on the fact I chose a generally occult theming, and now i feel a bit uncomfortable with keeping that. I really shouldnt let his opinions sway my artistic visions but its sorta hard not do, given hes my father. anywhom today I was a bit busy with school and some other stuff. For example I was trying to drive my brother to his swim practice, but due to the traffic, he was going to be so late that me, him, and my dad decided that he should just skip it. we did, then we ate at an italian resturant we havent had in a long while. Good times. I worked on my horizons game a bit, I updated the inventory system so it actually uses up items. I think im going to try and add status effects next. Lowkey not excited for tommorow, even though I have a hack club meeting. I have to wake up early to drive my brother to one of the swim things, and I have to lock in on a final group project for computer science, since my teammates are doing NOTHING bro. its due IN TWO DAYS. this is the FINAL PROJECT. and I NEED AN A 😭 PLEASE. anyways thank you for reading have a good day 😇

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Day 127 / 365 Where do i even begin. I will start with non hackclub stuff. I went to a banquet for the honors college thing at my community college. I will be honest I really dont know what it was about. Me and my little brother had to leave early since after that we had tutoring at the local church. I didnt have to participate since I was studying for test that I really gotta do good on. Now onto the hackclub stuff. Worked on my horizons game, adding in proper ui for the inventory. Jared, the hack club club operations lead, saw one of my earlier scrapbook posts (day 115) about my custom workshop i did with my club and really liked it. He reached out, and there may or may not be a certain official ysws coming to a hack club near you. Also possibly a certain post inside the club leaders newsletter. I say maybe because a lot of things can happen in life lol. Maybe aliens visit and steal all the computers. Hope that doesnt happen!

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this was supposed to be an overdrive original game i made back in february, but i decided to continue it anyways. anyways, here I present: Countless Reigns (OBT 1) link: play.unity.com/en/games/d9ec14c7-67b6-46a6-a385-0d44966fe5d9/countless-reigns-obt-beta game asset and code (everything): github.com/zeankundev/CountlessReigns (requires Unity 6) controls are really intuitive, though, just like you would on LoL. • RMB to move • LMB to attack • L to toggle camera lock credits: • programmer: me • pixel art & game assets: me • narrator & Jasu VA: me • music and SFX: Pianomations, Pixabay ⚠️ for mobile users: there are no official mobile ports yet. while you can play it on mobile, it often requires a mouse to be plugged in! ⚠️ you must click the canvas before playing the game, there is a known bug that won't launch the game or hide the intro, will fix it soon ⚠️ this game is _UNFINISHED!_ expect bugs and incomplete features & mechanics. if this bothers you, you may make a PR/issue feedbacks are welcome (reply this thread pls). thanks, and have fun

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Day 126 / 365 Hi guys, kaplin here. Today I worked a bit more on my horizons game, adding in a item pickup system and a inventory system. I also went out of my way today to watch some game design videos, because i figure that if i want to become a good game designer, im going to need to learn how to do good game design. I will report back if I find anything thats very good. Who knows maybe I will do game design tips i find everyday alongside my doodles... nevermind thats too much studying. Speaking of my doodles of my main oc pfp guy, my friend is drawing all of our main ocs as EEEVILLLLLL alternate universe variants, and he drew mine today and it looks really good!! oh also cookie run kingdom update came out with time balance department characters, which tbd was my favorite storyline in cookie run ovenbreak so im very happy they are coming to kingdom!!!

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Day 123 / 365 Today is day 1 2 3!!! easy as a b c!!! yaaaaaay!!! anyways todya was a bit less amazing than yesterday but still pretty good. I got my horizons game to properly show the factory builder ui while in the player view. It even pauses all the physics and movement and enemy stuff too. I made a test zone using a grid map and made some test enemies. The bullets are synced to the factory :) Shipped my first demo for horizons!! Lowkey a tad bit worried since I have 9 hours tracked, but playing the game, it doesnt FEEL like 9 hours were spent. last thing I want is being suspected for fraud :c A demo link can be found in my personal slack channel, since I dont want the whole world to see this one just yet lol

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Day 122 / 365 Today was amazing! My parents and brother were out of town so i was completely unbothered most of the day!! yay!!! I worked 3 hours on my horizons game. I switched to godot nodes but I got my system to fully work! You can connect, disconnect, delete, and add nodes and it properly adds it. I also found a good way to define nodes using resources. And to top it all off, I also got the actual processing part done, so now I can input an item into the factory layout and get the outputs ! Tommorow I will work on getting a more seamless popup to go to the factory menu while controlling the player character. Might even spend a bit of time trying to format godots graph system to be more stylized.

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2 May 2026, Saturday, Day 122/365. Sabatho. (Today) --- 11 PM • Unsatisfied with sleep • I didn't actually grind any fcc today hm • Interesting confession :3c: • Made #C0B17JM0YG2 because why not (canberra reference) • Several huddles ◦ Heidi Fi glitches discovered ◦ Fixed thanks Deployor • Astro project fixed ◦ I have an idea for remixed • Sign up for Nest again • Visited the nature reserve again (yearly unlimited pass?) and saw koalas ◦ Nice long walk while talking about books and fiction • "Straw Hat Smashing Orgy Bares Heads From Battery to Bronx" ◦ Thanks for the fun fact qxir • Sign up for payphonetag.com, the most Australian irl adventure game in existence ◦ Our team, Hack Club Red is #29 nationally :yayayayayay: ◦ HCTG got nothing on us :pf: • Discover my old laptop after thinking of fixing it with Linux • Oh boy this guy perfectly fits the last happenings prompt :sobson: ◦ Teary screen, glitchy speakers, broken battery, ◦ And a whole lot of nostalgia oml • Gonna actually start using my ping group News: Something something Michael Dopfner Enjoyment: 6/10 Productivity: 6/10 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes 2. Art: No 3. Documentation: a bit `Straw Hat Smashing Orgy Bares Heads From Battery to Bronx

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Started making my game for Macondo! I'm making a cross-platform app for families and friends to play! I plan to include stuff like tic-tac-toe, battleship, connect 4, snake and ladders, ludo and all kinds of stuff. (Even with multiplayer integration, but for now im sticking for one device playables! Plus I'm designing all assets by myself as they are relatively easy!

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Day 121 / 365 Today was great! Me and a friend of mine played the Create: Aeronautics addon for the create mod for minecraft (i love mods of mods!!) and we goofed off a lot lol. Worked a bit on my horizons game by starting to work on the factory node system. Its very unpolished, but I think it might do the trick. Tommorow I will try to add not-hardcoded-node-connecting and actually processing the factory nodes for immediate input -> outputs.

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Day 1 (day 119/365): • Woke up late so no exercise • Read this article, so great: sfalexandria.com/posts/brians-inventions • Got Haickued after trying so many time: hackclub.slack.com/archives/C01D7AHKMPF/p1777440551866309?thread_ts=1777427968.049859&cid=C01D7AHKMPF • Morning was good but than started working on facetoanime, got hand tracking working but got overwhelmed by how lil math i know and need to know for this project and just started playing game lowkey Enjoy: 1/5 Productivity: 1/5 Study: No Coding: Yes (1hr only) So now i willl be avoiding game fr. no game from tmrw. Quote: Problems are meant to be solved not to be used as escape...

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Day 117 / 365 I liked today, today was good. I worked a bit more on that minecraft modpack team stuff, mostly just fixing up tags and setting up item restrictions, all that jazz. BUT i did do something actually cool today! I started work on my hack club horizons project. Im going to be making a game called "Router Rebellion". The core idea is an topdown action rpg where the main gimmick is you create your own bullets in a sort of node-graph system. Ive been thinking about this game idea for a good while and have come up with some insane worldbuilding for it. No spoilers >:3 If you notice a slight similarity to my long term project (one turret) (wishlist on steam wink wink nudge nudge), then you would be correct in your assumption. The factory-that-creates-bullets-that-the-user-uses-as-a-weapon element in the game idea actually stems a LONG time ago when I was first making one turret and was considering what I wanted to make. After 2 years im finally using the idea! I only actually worked on the game for 1 hour today, but I got some pretty good player and camera movement going. Should also support controller if i set up the godot stuff right, will check later. I also improved the shader im using from a few days ago to replicate my 2d style for this horizons project.

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Day 115 / 365 Today was very nice! I had a hackclub meeting! feels refreshing given my last one was 28 DAYS AGO 😭 anyways we held my custom workshop stuff (that i did through #C0AE5L0N70Q go check it out if your a club leader) and we did go over the time by an hour like always. It was fine, since this time the library was fully booked (and has barely any availability for the summer), so we actually just held it at a church instead. My 2 hackclub members, both of whom are brothers if your curious, go to this church and their family is like a core member of that community or something like that. either way we were able to use the empty building for the meeting. it went really good! everyone was able to turn in a brick breaker game in 3 hours. Even my brother joined in, which is rare. I think the reason it took 3 instead of 2 was because I gave a lot of indepth information about godot and such. After that I went bowling! and I did all this while wearing one of my favorite shirts, my kirby gradient shirt thing (check attached image) so overall good day :)

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Day 110 / 365 Lowkey i feel like ive been really unproductive recently :pf: I wanted to get some work on one turret recode done, but it ultimately ended up with me going down a rabbit hole thats basically just resulted in "Hey the recode of your flawed system to make it unflawed actually has a major flaw still" and now I might need to recode a lot. or I could just... ignore it. idk. either A: Keep with my current system which may make it harder in the future for specific things, or B: make a new system that makes the system even more flexible. The only thing is that I probably wouldnt even use option B, but it would be useful for modding (but to be honest legit like nobody mods (or plays) one turret so it doesnt make all that much of a difference for modding). If your curious the recode is for how the game handles tiles in correlation to 2 by 2 buildings. so yeah from that i ultimately didnt code anything 😭 well actually i lied!! i made a converter behavior!! That I only have tested on 1 by 1 tiles so far, since i havent added 2 x 2 in the recode... which is great because there arent any 1 by 1 converters in the game 😭 anywhom I think I might be able to lock in tommorow! thank you for reading

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20 April 2026, Monday, Day 110/365. Lunes. (Today) --- 9 PM • Slept earlier, woke up late. ◦ Im still tired ◦ Strange dreams as usual • Trying to lock in for #C0AN4KKE3U2 • No card game • Tried to port an open-source The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Godot clone to Godot 4.6 ◦ "Narrative Featuring Female Human: Movement of Various Gases through Undomesticated Domains" ◦ Saw some eldritch horrors from a shader compiler fail :fear: • Trying to figure out what to do with my personal website (I hate html paths) • Trying to figure out the name of a mystical Javanese poem by Gus Dur • I am not mentally prepared for the first school day tomorrow. Enjoyment: 2/5 Productivity: 4/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes 2. Art: I should 3. Documentation: Yes `Wack my club till I want to cheese

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Day 109 / 365 Very chill day today. I fixed some errors with the recode of my game One Turret. For some reason, the router accepted any input direction (which is bad its supposed to input from one direction, then output 3 at random). Luckily that one was just a json issue. But there was also a bug where it would randomly pause outputing and do nothing. The reason behind it was simple actually: It kept trying to output in one direction, and since it wasnt able to deposit an item, it wouldnt change the target direction. This is unintentional so I added a new function for for when a tile fails to transfer. I love it when a bug fix just leads to more flexible code!!! :D I mentioned a hero shooter game (fungakas) 2 days ago made by one of my friends, and ive lowkey been playing it with my friend group a lot. Infact, me and the developer are collabing to add the one turret from one turret into the game so i did a bit of work on that today. yippee!! Now I feel like a truly professional game dev since i talked to another professional game dev for a professional collab using our professional games in a very professional conversation!!

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19 April 2026, Sunday, Day 109/365. Domingo. (Today) --- 9 PM • Slept late, woke up late :sadge: • Im tired • Trying to get my marbles together for #C0AN4KKE3U2 (Im alone now) • DM'ed a gap year the contents of my dream while trying to dm myself (I was half asleep okay) • On card game: ◦ Pass & play implemented poorly (pretty jank but it works) • I wonder what happened to Wallahi United :cat-hmm: they were supposed to have their big game day yesterday Enjoyment: 2/5 Productivity: 4/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes 2. Art: No :< 3. Documentation: Yes `Do you wanna do it with me? Or Ingo?

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18 April 2026, Saturday, Day 108/365. Sabatho. (Today) --- 9 PM • Slept late, woke up late :sadge: • Im tired • Made :oh-my-god-bruh-jjk: • Went on a walk until 5 • I saw a scooter on top of a bus stop this afternoon and I cant tell if its normal • On card game: ◦ Fixed debug menu ◦ Fixed pause menu ◦ Fixed z_index ordering ◦ Trying to add difficulty Enjoyment: 2/5 Productivity: 3.5/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes 2. Art: No :< 3. Documentation: Yes `██ boundaries remain unset, at old friends ██ upset

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Day 107 / 365 Today, like yesterday, I played a lot of tomodachi life living the dream. Though the game isnt really all that intended to be played in long sessions and its starting to show 😭 anywhom a friend of mine recently ported his team-based (think pvz garden warfare) pvp game to steam server system and he gave me a key to test. Its really fun, and very customizable! go check it out its called "fungakas" on steam and wishlist (not sponsored i just genuinly think its a good game). But yeah no real project work. I did do my homework though because im a very good bright young scholar!!

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Day 106 / 365 I did barely anything project-wise today because I spent ALL my freetime playing tomodachi life: living the dream, which dropped today. ITS SO GOOD!! my type of humor. plus im a HUGE sucker for customizable media. Like a key memory i have is when a roblox game (bubble gum simulator i think) had a feature where you could by a balloon, but you could also freely choose the color, and young me was ecstatic about that. anyways, great game, and its been a long time since ive spent this much time on a console in one day. attached are a few images from the game lol. I REALLY wish they allowed you to export screenshots from this game, but honestly it makes sense why they disabled it.

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16 April 2026, Thursday, Day 106/365. Jueves. (Today) --- 7 PM • Bear witness to the s~~ummer of making out~~ • Organising #C0AN4KKE3U2 ◦ Good news! • Lock in on my card game very much, excessive maybe ◦ V2!! I added 3P and 4P now ◦ Some text animation with bbcode, which unfortunately doesn't extend Label ◦ Script polish ◦ Multiplayer? • Trying to draw ◦ Need to figure out dialogue Enjoyment: 3/5 Productivity: 4/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: YES 2. Art: Uhh 3. Documentation: Yes `I turn right and left in all the earth; I see no justice sense or worth

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15 April 2026, Wednesday, Day 105/365. Miercoles. (Today) --- 9 PM • Did some work on my game, adding snow ◦ Lapsed because I'm scared of fraud • Made it into #C028VGT0JMQ ! • Bought two great books ◦ JJK vol 8 ◦ This Woven Kingdom • Visited the local makerspace for #C0AN4KKE3U2 • I must work on my card game for moar ticket Enjoyment: 3.5/5 Productivity: 3/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes.. kinda 2. Art: Uhh 3. Documentation: Yes Attempt #8 And a SPECIAL ONE for SCRAPPY: You like images, don't you? `16 inches. Can you confirm?

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Day 104 / 365 I was busy today because of the induction ceremony for honors society at the local community college. My brother got inducted. Now we are both honors society peeps who are way younger then the main demographic via dual enrollment!! yay!! From this i mostly just chilled instead of programming, but my dad gave me an open ai api key so I could do a little test on something. I had an idea on how i would remake a old game of mine, called "data driven detective". The scratch-mod platform it was on no longer supports the ai extension they had so the game is unplayable, so a "data driven detective deluxe" is well due. my first experiment was trying to get 5 ai characters (each based on characters in from friendgroup) into a discussion on who murdered some guy right. I made it fairly obvious who it was in the actual timelines (all except one character has an alibi), and yet after various reruns they are STILL failing to vote the correct individual. Maybe this is what i get for using the smallest model. Might try to add some extra stuff like note-taking or something idk. They are mostly just shrugging off clear conflicts in stories

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Day 103 / 365 Not much to comment about school, but i did get a lot of stickers from hackclub in the mail, and my dad's copy of the 2025 hackclub magazine arrived! Most of my stuff was from haxmas. I was actually able to save one of the stickers that were used to seal the letter, but since I had no where to put it, it became the first hackclub sticker on my laptop. Im hesitating with the rest of the stickers since I dont know when or if im going to get a new laptop. and in the one turret recode I got basic producers (ones that only make 1 material) to work. Tommorow I will probably try tackling the router, which is the only tile in the game with a random output.

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Officially Day 103 Personally Day 17 Finally got an ending to this damned game that's robbed me of my motivation. It's such a mess code wise and there's some bugs that only happen sometimes... But It's cool tho!! github.com/pixelsaver/neonic pixelsaver.itch.io/neonic

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12 April 2026, Sunday, Day 101/365. Domingo.** (Yesterday) --- 9 PM - Solved a bug and fixed most of my game ![:yayayayayay:](emoji.slack-edge.com/T09V59WQY1E/yayayayayay/203666b7424ee7a7.gif) - Experienced some of the most obscure Godot errors known to man - Fixed thx to help from seb - Then some animations broke and I have no clue why - Im just too tired to fix it completely - Working on ze rock in blender - Need some ambient occlusion - The colors need tweaking - Maybe gonna sketch random people as a study, idk Enjoyment: 4/5 Productivity: 3/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: No-kinda 2. Art: Yes 3. Documentation: Yes `Dragon, check your messages

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Day 100 / 365 It is day 100! 27% into the year. Lets do a slight recap! Major things i did: • Made most of my aces game • Bought hytale and got into modding immediately • Made a small roblox game with friends • Finally published one turret on steam • Attending a hackathon (hackclub campfire) • Made a game for ceiling seal ysws • Made a project ysws (which i was going to host tommorow but all my club members said they are out of town) Things that I still have left to do from my original list in the slack thread: • Get One Turret "Polish Update" out • Host a hackclub ysws (I mean a full scale online one) • Learn and do a bit more about hardware • Make a library/tool/extension to/for something Anyways for my actual day today. I went to court. Not for anything bad lol, I had to go to court to get my full drivers license! yippee! But actually it was kinda cool since we have always drove by the big courthouse frequently ever since i was a little kaplin86 and i finally got to see the inside!

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9 April 2026, Thursday, Day *99/365. Jueves.* (Today) --- 9 PM • I HAVE BECOME AN ORGANISER OF the local build guild of <#C0AN4KKE3U2> • Locking in. • Working on my game after an extension I got for <#C09EZSEMB16>, implemented some more card JUICE • Attempting the overgladian task of a 24h <https://app.slack.com/huddle/T0266FRGM/C0A7HQZFFNX|huddle> in <#C0A7HQZFFNX> (will forfeit soon unless someone joins) • Tfw when you are patching an annoying bug in Godot and end up creating a bug that makes your entire game break :sob-pray: • Making me consider reverting back to when it just worked. Enjoyment: 3/5 Productivity: 6/5 Streaks: 1. Coding: Yes 2. Art: No-kinda 3. Documentation: Yes `I was at a loss for words, then I hit back with swords. Speech is to be rethought often before spoken.`

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3 April 2026, Friday, Day *93/365. Goma'a.* --- Better late than never • Get #C07LESGH0B0 grant approved :yayayayayay: • Family returns • Somehow, people across the world in NYC found their way to my Instagram recommended profiles • Somehow, these people are students affiliated with UN officials.. • Go down a rabbit hole leading me to find a football club named 'Wallahi United' with a big game day on 17 April, gl to them ig! • Fail to lock in sufficiently on my Godot game for #C09EZSEMB16 • But make a couple good ui updates to my game • Make a ping group for my channel,@Henrygng • Insane April Fools confusion; some people didn't get the memo :sob-pray: > Guys I banged a 22 year old and want to keep the baby pls respect my decision • :king-johny-von-joestar: | Day 15. china dy4 roots intense awaiting

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5 April 2026, Sunday, Day *95/365. Domingo.* -------------------------------- Better late than never. • Adjusted all clocks 1hr back • Visited Cowra, a pretty unique town. >

Cowra is a town in the Australian state of New South Wales, 250 km west of Sydney. It is surrounded by sheep and is one of the larger towns in the state. But this relatively normal town holds the unique distinction of being the site of a prisoner of war camp in World War 2. Japanese and Italian soldiers who were captured during the war in the Pacific & North Africa were interned at Cowra, along with innocent civilians who happened to be Japanese immigrants of the 2nd and 3rd generation (Nisei & Sansei) suspected of being spies for the Japanese Empire. In addition to them, many other people were interned, mostly soldiers of the Axis powers, such as Albanians under Fascist Italy and Koreans/Chinese under Japanese rule. Also among them were a group of about 1,200 Indonesians, including merchant sailors and political prisoners of Nationalist & Communist factions, along with their families. The Indonesians were initially exiled to Irian Jaya, West Papua proper, by the Dutch. Following Japanese advances on Papua, the Dutch (illegally) transferred the prisoners to Cowra, under the pretext of being Pro-Japanese military threats, and not political prisoners.
> Many deaths occurred throughout the history of the camp. At one point, the Japanese soldiers held prisoner attempted a mass breakout, during which hundreds of Japanese died alongside 4 Australian soldiers. 13 Indonesians also died of unrelated diseases from the cold winter climate.
> After the war, many former Japanese internees returned to the town to pay respects to their comrades. Alongside them were returned Australian service members, who remarkably took care of the graves of their former enemies in addition to their own. The veterans would become guardians of all graves at the Cowra camp. Throughout the years, memorials were established for all who died at the camp. Soon, the town became a place symbolic of the Japanese and Australian friendship and peace as a whole. 
> The town holds one of 22* world peace bells, the only one in the world located outside a capital city.

• Farewell, #C09EZSEMB16. It was amazing to have you :face_holding_back_tears: • :king-johny-von-joestar: | Day 17. dya6. I am tired of this game.

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