7h 7m 27s logged

Sooo-I’m making a personal page/portfolio but slightly gamified. Choose a sprite, a name, walk around and click on stuff!! There’ll be background added music soon! Not to mention tons of art/animations because I want this to have ✨ personality✨

Sooo I drew a few more objects to link pop-ups to, like a globe to show my timezone and a telephone for my contact page☎️
A tree blossoming gif I made for my contact pop-up!
Code-wise, I added a typing effect for text in certain parts. The UI/UX went through major improvements, I added a hover effect.
For my pop-up I added a tab where you can draw me something and email it to me! I repurposed that for the painterly app in my webos lol . Shoutout to @Alisha for being super cool and letting me use her idea for this!
* Tbh I’m running into some issues with receiving the pic, but I’ll troubleshoot it tmr for sure! Currently I’m receiving only the image data….and even if I draw a single line the image data is way too large for this to work. I’m trying to research how I can convert it to a file before it gets to me! But actually fixing it is a job for tmr!
I’m going to lock in and try to ship this before this week ends. Think I can do it? No? Yeah, I don’t think I’ll be able to finish it either
Cheers!
PS: I’m having a bit of trouble attaching the gif, so I attached my spritesheet instead!

5h 41m 55s logged

What I’m making

Personal website, made by someone who really wants to play a pokemon game that I used to play when I was little but can’t find now.

What I did

I made a new pop-up for my art!! This was for sure the hardest thing I’ve done because I had to learn abt APIs and stuff and I felt it was terribly confusing.
Soo umm why did my art pop-up need APIs? I had this idea, that if sm was visiting the site, and they really liked a certain piece, they could like it! That’s why I had to learn abt APIs. Tbh I’m still confused what I’ll do when I upload it on Github, because I’m pretty sure its a Security Issue™ to just leave the info out in the open.
Because this is a porfolio/ personal page I figured I’ll add a section abt education. I wanted to add some ✨ pizzaz ✨ to the pop-up!! So I drew a gif, recorded it to my lapse, and connected it to my hacktime!!!!
I’m soooo happy with how it turned out!!!!! I didn’t think it would look nice, but it does! All in all, a preety good update.
Cheers!

6h 53m 35s logged

#What I’m making

A personal website, slightly gamified! The basic premise is that you choose a sprite, a name, move around a room and interact with the objects there. Some of them are going to be purely animated stuff that I’m going to work on pretty soon!!!

Spent a bit of time improving the movement. Read: a lot of time. It’s a lot better now!
Next I began with the interactive objects. I’m going to finish off the more code?/typing based work first before I begin with the animations for the pop-ups.
I made a pop-up to show my projects! You click on the board abv the computer 💻 . I made an overview tab, a devlog tab (I just copied my devlogs on stardance) and a links tab for the readme and deployment and stuff
A lot of time was spent on the css, but I’m happy with how it turned out. I might add like a bit of texture to the pop-up, maybe I’ll make a plaid background?
Anyway, have a great day!!!! Check out the video if you have time :)
ps-idk why my screen recording doesn’t show my sprite walking It makes me sad 😭 😭

6h 7m 24s logged

A personal website, but make it creative. Last time, I just finished the landing page, where you choose a sprite and a name! The general look I’m going for is kinda like the pixel pokemon games

So I began by storing the user’s name and choice of character. Then I remembered that I needed to convert my animated gifs into spritesheets. I’ve never actually made this before, else I would have just done them as I was animating
I made the UI, which is a isometric room and a topbar. Then came the fun part! Making the sprite move and not bump into the furniture. This was where I jinxed myself. My room was a flat image, and individually plotting areas where the sprite couldn’t move was….hard to say the least.
I created a temporary debug code using where I could adjust the points, view the coordinates in my console and copy it into my code. It worked, but only to an extent. I was three seconds away from exiling myself to yt to learn blender to make a 3d model instead.
Idk how, but in some stroke of inspiration, I decided instead of marking places that weren’t walkable, I’d mark the places that actually were.
Things got a lot simpler from there. I drew over the walkable areas and inserted it. I kept it transparent so the code could see it but you can’t. IT WORKED, by some grace. It isn’t perfect, but soo much better.
Cheers!

2h 33m 43s logged

I’ve been thinking about making a personal website for so long, but I simply didn’t like the idea of simply making a scrolling page with a sleek design. I think that websites can be so much more interesting than that! What I want to make is something with character and colour. Sooo here goes-
I have a very distinct idea of what I want to make though I’m not sure if I can make it. But I’m going to try anyway lol. The theme is going to be pixel art!!!
So today I locked in and made the landing page. I forgot to track the designing 😭😭 so this is only the coding time. The landing page has three avatars you can choose from, an info button and a keyboard for your username.
All sprites are drawn and animated by me! Check out the video, I think this is coming along pretty nicely!
Next devlog will be better, I’m in a rush rn . I have my physics paper tmr and I haven’t studied yet 💀