There are a lot of things on my mind on the eve of Yuri Ryona Jam. On one hand, I’ve been sketching away at the big picture for this project for several months now and I am super excited to finally put rubber to the road. On the other hand, this is going to be my largest writing project to date, and I’m a bit scared that I’m biting off more than than I can chew, especially once you consider the stat-raising and simulation elements of the game.¹

I love these three t...

Just on time, I’ve completed my listed set of goals for developing the roguelike fork of the renpy Dating Sim Engine. The biggest and most impressive feature of this fork is a standalone python simulator for DSE playthroughs, which can be used to estimate typical player stats under different play strategies or estimate gameplay stats like how hard specific endings are to achieve.

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Life’s been a lot lately and I’ve been distracting myself with clicking around the new old web and doing some minor upkeep here. Looking around the personal pages of other FOSS aficionados partially inspired me to get my shit together, which includes, among other things, setting up a repo for web code demos that I want to share.

With this post I’m rolling out some tweaks to the overall structure of this website, with the goal of making it easier to navigate the increasingly large breadth of con...