Tales From a Messy Workbench!
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is an event held three times a year. There are two Camp sessions in April and July and a ‘real’ event held in November. The November goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, but the Camp events are choose-your-own goals.
I have a working game! 😁 Well, okay, what I have is everything set up and able to talk to each other so that it could be a working game. I just haven’t done much NaNo’ing since last update, just lots of research and playing around with sudo superpowers (yay Putty!). But the actual story…
It’s been quite a slog trying to get the game working on AWS. I’ve got the database, backend, and frontend all setup– but now Chrome refuses to let the frontend talk to the backend because one is SSL and the other… isn’t. Tomorrow I’m going to learn how to set that up (using Let’s Encrypt)….
So for this year’s NaNoWriMo attempt, I’m writing a text-based adventure! Since it’ll be hard to hit 50k with just the story (I’m assuming), I’m also going to include any new code written in case I have to add features and these blog updates as I talk about the game. (If I manage to get…
I’m trying to shake myself out of the odd fog I’ve been in since the pandemic started pandemic’ing, and what better way than focusing in on a Camp project!
Camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has been going rather well for me this time– mostly because I’ve chosen a very small goal and am chasing minutes rather than words. I’ve been focusing on developing a lunchtime writing habit on my workdays. I pack a lunch and a laptop… and write! Not really rocket science,…