Exproad, Improad and Reroad! is coming along well, I should definitely have a fun little game for tomorrow (today) night. It’s 4 AM where I am and I’m going to turn in for the night. Before I did/do, however, I had some yummy sweetened and dried mango strips from Trader Joe’s.

The packaging, however, leaves something to be desired. I mangled my thumbs trying to get the bastard of a thing open. It’s as if I’ve got an actual mango and I’ve got to get into it. Wait, no, it’s more like having a mango with a coconut surrounding it, and then maybe like a lockbox or something on the outside of that. But I would never cut it open, no. Got to preserve freshness!

Success! We have mangos!

On a more related note… good stuff from my game, like I said before. I’m going for a nifty 8-bit look, because I figured that would make it easier to make decent artwork. Turns out that ugly goes to super ugly, but whatever. I’m just drawing malformed pickup trucks, Asians, and zombies.

Anyway. I also went with 8-bit because I recently made my own engine for doing modern-NES games (I’m calling it JPixel, I might release it open source soon), so I decided it would be fun to use that. I also had simple physics and particle effects coded in JPixel, so that helps save some time too.

Screenshot:

And another:

Time for some sleep!

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