Holiday break

• Took a few weeks off around Christmas to recharge
• Somewhat difficult to regain momentum
• Good for me
• Recent US politics has been challenging to my focus

Progress report

• Nakama leaderboards
• Started work on ice caves
  • Freeze rays
  • Destroyable ice walls
  • Things that melt
  • Ice walls that reflect bullets
  • Falling ice stalactites

Next game and development plans

• Work on two games at once
• Game development pipeline
• 2+ releases every year
• Procedural, roguelike, randomness, interacting systems, mostly linear, 30 minute sessions
  • Pros: no hand level design, very little story and writing if any, shorter dev cycle (haha), focus on my strengths
  • Spelunky 2, Nuclear Throne, Jupiter Hell all scratch that itch in different ways
  • Lots of interesting territory here