Hullo,

i think I’m finally back up and running again. I was out of town the last week and missed the launch of my own game lol. I shipped out the last piece of art last Tuesday and hopped on a plane and left the country not knowing what the final product would actually look like.

so it was quite refreshing to play Chess Force finally with all the bells and whistles this morning. Everyone did a really awesome job. The music is great, the sounds and little touches that Nick adds to spice it up all came together well.

i found the concept kind of fun when Nick originally pitched it. I don’t play or even like chess but the concept of taking a well known game and taking concepts but making a different game out of it was intruiging and almost game jam like. Anyways two months of work later we managed to make a solid lil game and my first shmup of my ng career.

Other news, I’m working on a pico Day thing. I haven’t decided if I want to make it a art portal or a portal portal submission yet. I’m kind of interested in making a really long art portal animation. I like the idea of treating the art portal like my personal movie theater even tho there’s a perfectly good working portal for it that I can use instead. I dunno I’ll see.

i was in Czechia last week. It was fun. It’s rare my mum tags along but I felt like it was about time I showed her that side of my lifestyle (without as much drinking tho). My original plan was to ship her back after Czechia and continue on to Romania but the travel scene under the current administration is kind of hairy right now and I didn’t want to test my luck so I shelved romania until a later point and just flew back. Here’s some fotos from my trip.

never seen this in any other part of the world I’ve been to but you can order beer in 3 styles: kinda foamy, mostly foamy, and all foamy. I didn’t think it was for real, so I ordered the mliko version (all foam). Probably will never do that again but I was able to fulfill my curiosity. 🤷‍♀️

the statue of St Wenceslas sitting on his horse the proper way is in the town main square. This version of him sitting on his hanging horse is inside a weird indoor mall thing and is way funner to look at. Some people think it’s insulting so I guess that’s why it’s kind of hidden.

all my trips have some sort of pico family member sighting. This one was in a small town outside of Prague.

this was a hipster cafe / afternoon cocktail joint that’s on the side wall of the pier along the river. It’s got a massive round glass door. It’s called (a)void. I had a gin & tonic.

Charles bridge is pretty slammed with tourists, so i had to get up at sunrise to get a foto of barbarian without people around.