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!

#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!!!

What I did

• 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 😭 😭

What I’m making

• 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

What I added

• 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!

What I’m Making

• 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 💀