Game Harvest 2025

Just making sure you wish you developed games in Kentucky: all us Kentucky Developers got together and showed off our games to the public during the fancy fancy event Game Harvest, put on by Louisville Makes Games. We held it in an art musem, because we're art ~

So that's us, and all our little booths, before we turn the lights off. You can see Makealotl Music over on the far left!

You can see Makealotl even better here:

And on the left of that picture, you can see Vaporwave Battler running too.

I gave out stickers! That was fun, I love giving stickers to people.

I got to talk to a tonnnnn of people, too, and watch them play both Note Nab and Vaporwave Battler. It was also excellent to talk to my fellow dev pals, get ideas, and play with their games as well. I walked off with so many ideas, you guys, I have so many ideas now.

My list of ideas for me for next year:

• Get little yard sale signs -- you know, the neon cut out ones? -- to give people a call to action about the game ("Buy on Itch.io!" or "Visit Delia on the web!"). Also use the signs to mark the stickers as free
• Reprint my buisness card holder, it busted right before
• Maybe Game Harvest specific builds that reset or give directions after a time so my booth needs less babysitting
• Headphones. I brought purple ones for Makealotl Music just because Delia has purple headphones and I think I'm funny, and I noticed they got used when the bands were playing really loud. They're just 5 Below headphones, I think another pair of cheapies would be a fine investment.

"How Do I Start Learning Game Development?"

This was my entry for Warp Zine Issue 3. I think it's worth looking at again, so here it is, reposted:

Too many people want to learn development, but don't really know where to start. This infographic is your jumping off point. If you try it and it doesn't work, at least you tried -- come tell me, so I know to change my infographic and set you on a better path!

Warp Zine #3 Out Now!

Warp Zine #3 is out NOW! You can check it out by clicking here

you'll never guess who was a contributor ~~~

Page 4 needs some explanation -- everyone on the Kentucky Developer's discord submitted games they gave up on making. Get it? They're dead games.

Warp Zine 2 Out NOW!

That was fast. It honestly felt like no time at all, yeah?

Click here to read Warp Zine Issue 2!

I actually wrote a feature on Vaporwave Battler that got included. But you should check everyone else's stuff out too.

The For Loop in GDScript (Or: Why I'm Gonna Hit Someone)

So I can write a for loop in other languages. I am aware that this makes me a member of an exclusive club called Everybody. But, like, look! See?

As you can tell from that thick, luscious error message, that ain't it chief. Sooooo, maybe:

But I don't want it to be a node. I want it to be an int. Apparently in GDScript, if you're writing a for loop, the for (variable) is always gonna be a node. Always and forever.

I didn't get a screenshot, but apparently the right answer is:

for i in button_container.get_children():
if i.disabled == false:
i.grab_focus()

But like with tabs that Blogger doesn't eat.

So of course, I immediately stepped on a rake and NEEDED i to be typed. Do you know how to do it?

Other sane languages would let you do i : whatever, but gdscript, you're typing that bad boy inside the loop.

Thanks! I hate it!

A Bad Word Filter

If you read this post, you're gonna agree that you're old enough to see some pretty bad words on the Internet! One of the last tasks I had to program in for Delia's game was a bad word filter. I taught, I am 100% aware that kids cannot be trusted and have to have that filter. But: what bad words do we include? I know that older games have bad word filters that have been cracked and are probably sitting around in the open on TCRF, but I didn't even know where to begin to find those. Soooooo I asked on the Kentucky Developer's website, and someone linked me to the Banned Word List. Did you know there's an official bad word list? Had no clue. I'm gonna link it here, and it's obviously not safe for work, so you're clicking at your own risk: The Banned Word List Just for good measure, some people put me up on these other two lists, which are also not safe for work, and you are also clicking these links at your own risk: Wikipedia's list of ethnic slurs and Wikipedia's list of common nouns derived from ethic group names. I went through and picked the ones I figured kids would be most likely to use. Now, if you've read down this far, you're grown enough to know this, but I still need to say it: I'm not providing this information so you have a cool new list of awful things to call people. I'm providing this in case you're ever in the same situation and you need to block words. When I would let kids choose names on Kahoot, to put it politely, they would use something off these lists pretty much every time. Kahoot has a feature where it picks names for the kids. It made them complain, but it also meant that I wasn't displaying the Banned Word List on my projector. I'm actually not sure how this factors into products for adults, but if you know I'd be interested to hear. (You know, for whatever reason they'd pick nice names for Blooket. Can't explain that.)

Stickers!

My local library lets me print stickers!

Do you recognize that axolotl? That's Delia!

I have plans for promoting Delia's site, Makealotl Music, annnnnnnd I need stuff. My local library will let me print $8 worth of stuff a month, and apparently THIS many stickers is eight bucks. I get eight more bucks every month. It's my tax dollars, may as well go down to the library and use it. While I was down there, I printed a zine about Vaporwave Battler too. Free printing at the library.✌️

Give me some time, I'll give you your opportunity to get your own Delia sticker. Also, I wonder what I'm printing next week? 🤔