Friday Rambles and Game Dev Update 2025-05-16

It's the third Friday Rambles of May. Time flies, or whatever. I was pretty busy, but not always with work... sometimes you just have one of those real-life weeks.

Gamedev Stuff

1.0.3-NS (the third patch) is now live for Nintendo Switch, which fixed some annoying bugs. Now I can fully recommend everyone play the Switch version! But the launch discount is over. Oh, well!

I was watching a random Japanese stream of the game when I noticed some text alignment issues for Mr. コアラ. I went into the code and fixed it. I'm not sure if anyone noticed or cared, because the streamer didn't actually say anything about it, and none of the playtesters did either, but whatever. If I don't care about this kind of thing, then who will?

I also updated some code to fix some Chinese glyph alignments. For 3 specific glyphs. Literally no one will notice it. Now that's what I call LQA.

I thought 1.0.3-NS was gonna be the last patch for the Switch version, but here we go! One last patch for the (mythical) physical edition. So I'll be pushing a new update (1.0.4-NS, natch) out at some point, but I'm taking my time in case something else pops up. These aren't particularly urgent bugs to fix, and it takes a long time to push out a patch.

This week a couple big VTubers streamed Dreams and Deadlines. Nice!

Maybe in the future some of those thousands of viewers will see some merch or Game 2 and be like, hey that kinda looks like that one game my Oshi played that one time (and then buy it, because they're sure not buying this one).

Brand awareness, baby. For what that's worth.

Merch Stuff

Speaking of merch, I signed off on the Penny Makeship plushie sample and then received it like a couple days later. Whoa, so fast!! I'll be taking some glamor shots and preparing for a new campaign. It's happening! I'm so excited! To make another comic about selling plushies!

Anyway, here's a preview for the Patreon gang. I think she looks pretty cute, to be honest.

I haven't decided on a date for the campaign yet, but I think I'll try to make it coincide with a Steam sale. Please. Please buy a Penny plushie. Please. The fate of the world is at stake here. I know everything's expensive now and it's hard to afford rice and dried seaweed to eat, but... please... Buy a Penny plushie...

Also, remember when I said I kept bringing up Fangamer sempai whenever someone asked for a physical release, in hopes they would notice me?

Yes, that's right, as it turns out, Mr. Co-founder of Fangamer is a fan of Endless Monday. And I must say, that's really cool. Physical edition, sure, but also, Endless Monday T-shirts or pins designed by Nina Matsumoto, or Air Frye With Skye cookbook, anyone?

Being perfectly realistic, though, the sort of IPs they deal with are generally substantially larger than mine, so I'm not going to get my hopes up too much, only to see them bashed into the rocks on the beach of despair. But who knows, maybe something cool will happen. If not now, then in the future. Stay tuned... or not... Okay, too late, my hopes are up.

So, maybe Good Smile Company sempai can notice me too and make a Skye Nendoroid, so I can finally leave this mortal coil, having completed all my bucket list items. Eh? Eh? Good Smile Company sempai? A famous VTuber played my game, don't you think that's cool? Good Smile Company sempai...?

Other Stuff

I've been feeling the need to have a nice home base for all my work and games, so I can just start pointing people to it to get familiar with Endless Monday, and for news and updates and stuff. I'm going to try to make a nice, professional looking website to replace my current page that's basically just a list of links. Might as well start looking like a professional Dev Studio. Maybe that'll be my next major project. Yeah, alright, I'm procrastinating on making Game 2.

Also, Twitter has been actively painful to visit nowadays, so I'm thinking about locking it and telling people to go to my theoretically good website, instead. I'll do that once I make my good website. Judging by my engagement numbers on Twitter lately, I could probably afford dropping it, anyway. My main issue is that it's also the only place I can keep in touch with Japanese fans and artists and game devs, but maybe I should do my part so that other places are the only places they can keep in touch with me.

Anyway, I want to make my website someplace people can get up to date info about stuff I'm working on and selling, without being stuck to one particular social media site. Then people can subscribe with the RSS feed or through my email newsletter or find links to my other social media pages or whatever. Ugh.

The End

I think this week was more merch focused than anything. I think next week I'll make a good website and draw some pictures. I need to make some Penny related art to get people to remember they like her, so that they buy her plushies. And I need to build up my audience again, and remind people why they followed me in the first place. I've been neglecting all the non-game-related portions of my online brand for too long. Oh yeah, speaking of that, I've also written some parts for a future issue of Endless Monday Monthly* I'm hoping to release soon, so stay tuned for more news on that front. Other than that, a lot of waiting for cool things that may or may not happen. Hoping cool things will happen, but who knows. Maybe they won't.

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Okay, thank you for your support, as always! See you next week!