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Today was the hottest day of the year so far. I spent most of it in the city. Sawyer and I attended an event out in Brooklyn hosted by his school, a kind of weekly showcase for people interested in receiving feedback for games they’re working on. All of the games we played were pretty interesting and well-designed, and we had a good time. It felt pretty good to see others’ work and to help them out with feedback. I think that’s my favourite part of making games, honestly: talking with other people about them, and hopefully having a positive effect on others and helping them work through issues or even improve their craft.

In regards to my personal work though, I accomplished,virtually nothing. I sat down to work on the stuff I mentioned yesterday – lowered visibility for rain, and smoking – but I implemented neither of them, and instead just wasted several hours thinking about girls and feeling like shit. Spending too long in the city, especially on warm days like these, inevitably has that effect on me. Life is best lived on one’s own, I suppose. 

Tomorrow I’d like to attempt to implement smoke for the fire. I have some ideas for how it might work but we’ll see if I actually get around to doing anything.