TWAM archive

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 23rd March 2024

So remember what I said about hearing from me next week? Yeah scrap that. (I know its not Thursday)

I've been everywhere, things happened in my life again and I had to take another break from things, and even after it was over I still was not feeling up to coming back, so here we are just over 2 months later.

I'm postponing/cancelling Hollow Dream, I just don't have the same spark I had when I was working on it before, which is sad, but it happens. If I do come back to it then it will probably look vastly different to before.

I'm not really sure what to make now, but I'll figure it out, the wordle knockoff has also been released so check the projects page for that.

I also plan to rework this website, potentially changing names and most importantly finally adding the missing page.

Anyway, whether or not I'll be back thursday I have no clue, but if things go to plan then you will hear from me then.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 11th January 2024

Hey, it's been a while, sorry for missing the last couple weeks of these, I've been a bit busy as I'm sure everyone has.

I haven't really been working on much, just a hidden side project my teacher gave me an idea for. Everything else has sorta been put to the side while I've been trying to enjoy life a bit more.

Life has been a little rough recently, so I'm not sure how long it'll take before I'm back to being as usual, but it should be soon enough.

As for new years resolutions? I'm not really sure yet. I know I am a little late on that front, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Anyway, I'm back now, expect to hear more from me next week, see you then.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 21st December 2023

Welcome to this weeks TWAM, where I once again have nothing to say.

I've spent most of the last week just seeing friends and taking some much needed time for myself. I've been feeling pretty burned out on the programming side of things so I think it's long overdue.

This means I haven't really worked on anything, and I have shut down latte for the christmas period as leaving it up isn't needed.

Hollow Dream got a little bit of attention, that is about it.

This will probably continue to be like this until the burnout feeling stops, I don't want to force myself to create because that just makes something so dull and not worth making in the first place.

I'll keep you updated on this, until next week!

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 14th December 2023

It's thursday, which also means it is TWAM day, this week I think I have the least to say in a while.

This past week has been spent with more exams, yay, so I haven't really worked on much, a new project has been started but I don't know if I will make it public or not yet.

Latte is still up, which is more than I can say for this website as when I changed the icon it almost caused the entire thing to break? (neo what is wrong with your hosting).

I honestly think I might get back to working on Hollow Dream soon, we will find out if that happens next week.

Until then, I don't have anything more to say.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 7th December 2023

It's the christmas month and the years almost up, let's talk about the previous week.

First of all, exams have been mostly fine, seeing some classmates reactions to some of them has been thoroughly amusing to me.

Latte is still up! Shocker isn't it? Nothing about latte has really changed though.

I haven't really been working on a whole lot this week, just brushing up on more c++ (I still hate myself).

Moving forward I think I'm definitely gonna keep Hollow Dream as a side project, as much as I love it I just lack the motivation, but that could be subject to change.

I have a few projects in mind, if I decide to follow through with them I'll mention them in the next TWAM.

Sorry, I don't have much else to say this week, until next time.

See you next week!

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 30th November 2023

Yah so remember how I said after gokumonkyo I was gonna get back to working on Hollow Dream? Great because that sure as hell didn't happen.

This week has been a mostly chilled out week to start with, spent most of my time brushing up on my c++ (yes I hate myself).

Then it's kind of taken an unexpected turn, remember how I've neglected Latte for ages? Yeah well for some reason I decided it would be a brilliant idea if I just randomly started working on it again.

Latte now has additional functionality, full hosting (currently, subject to change), a support server (everyone from my college should recieve an invite) and some extra things coming in future.

For those who are extra observant, you may have noticed some new changes to this website aswell such as the addition of animations on page titles and pages in the TWAM archive.

Alright, next up, lets talk about the state of Hollow Dream as it's been out of the spotlight for quite some time.

The state of the game is still very basic, I'm still chipping away at making the basic game loop work. That might sound bad but it's the part that is going to take longest. Once it is done the project will be able to move forward much quicker. I will admit there has been a major error that has recently been noticed that I'm in the process of fixing, but the bug itself calls for the rewriting of most of the game, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS I KNOW WHAT TO DO. The whole thing is completely under control.

This next week I have exams in college (wish me luck) so therefore less will probably be done, consider this downtime. My focus will mainly be on maintaining Latte's current state.

See you next week!

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 23rd November 2023

It's thursday, so you know what that means. This week we say hello to my first public project.

First things first I want to say that the remake is cancelled, someone I worked on that project with the first time has done some very questionable things in recent times and therefore I want nothing to do with them and to me that includes that.

Latte and Hollow Dream have recieved no attention, lets get to why:

Introducing Gokumonkyo, my first public project.

It is a small piece of encryption software I challenged myself to write in under a week, I ended up doing it in 5 days.

More information about it can be found in the projects page, including a link to where you can install it and a link to the documentation if anyone is interested in that.

Special thanks to Sensei Chromosome for the amazing icon art.

Anyway, after that I'll be taking a short break, and then I'll be back chipping away at Hollow Dream.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 16th November 2023

It's been a week, you know what that means.

This week hasn't been that bad overall, been pretty busy.

Latte is still down (shocker I know) but that should be fixed very very soon. I just can't be bothered to host it at the moment.

Hollow Dream got no attention this week, I lost my USB for most of the week so I straight up couldn't work on it.

The remake also got no attention for the exact same reason.

However, I did start making an encryption software that you can expect to see in the very near future, like this week probably? Not too sure.

That's about it for this week, feels like I haven't said a lot but there isn't really much to say.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 9th November 2023

It's that time of the week again, lets talk.

This week things have still been returning to normal, I've started going back to college (Latte is still down though currently, should be back up before the next project, sorry).

I've still been chipping away at Hollow Dream, the base of it is almost finished, things should speed up a bit after that. I've also been working on a remake of an old game I made in high school so that there's something coming out in the time I'm still working on Hollow Dream.

Should be some updates coming to the website soon (possibly this week if I find the time?) though I can't give any confirmed timings.

That's all for this week, keep an eye out for those website updates.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 2nd November 2023

Alright folks time for another TWAM, this ones way more positive.

This week I've upgraded my RAM from 16GB to 32GB, which is nice, goodbye to closing things I guess.

I've started working on my projects again, mainly this website (added the archive, made the home page more fancy, added a font etc). Hollow Dream got a little work done to it, I'm sorta trying to get back into it. Latte is uh, being neglected at the moment (sorry college ppl?).

Anyway, things are looking up more now, things should return to normal soon. I've got some nice things planned to come soon, especially involving this website, so keep your eye out. Alright I think thats it for this week.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 26th October 2023

Alright I'm back again, but not much has changed.

Again, I haven't been working on anything, my health mentally and physically is just getting worse and so much has been happening that I won't go into details on that I wouldn't have had the time anyway to work on things.

To be completely honest I don't know how long this is going to go on, which is concerning, but like I said I don't want to compromise quality. It's not like anyones eagerly waiting anyway.

I'm considering adding a TWAM archive so that only the most recent TWAM is shown here and the rest are in the archive, but I haven't decided yet.

I don't have much else to say, thank you for reading this.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 19th October 2023

Alright, been a minute, lets talk.

This past week I haven't really been working on much, I have been really really unwell both mentally and physically and to an extent where continuing with my projects would result in them feeling unpolished and littered with issues.

Latte has been down this week, my apologies to those that have noticed, I closed the bot down for the week because I was unable to handle requests.

As for everything else, like I said, I haven't worked on them. Projects like Hollow Dream I really want to make sure are polished and well made and I'm not willing to sacrifice quality just because I want it done sooner. Heck, look at most recent big game releases we all know its not a good idea to rush things.

That's all I really have to say this week.

- TWAM (This week at Mocha's): - 9th October 2023

This is my first post here, also the first day the website has been up. Pretty perfect timing that this goes up on my birthday, thank you everyone for your kind words and wishes today.

As for the development side of things, I am currently working on this website and adding more functionality and features to it. Production of Hollow Dream and Latte are going smoothly and as planned (These should be listed in the projects section, if not you either know or you don't, sorry).