Friday Rambles and Game Dev Update 2025-07-18

It's the Friday Ramble. Patreon completely changed the post composition UI again. I hope I hit all the correct buttons.

Game Dev Stuff

The big news of the week is that Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines is now Steam Deck 💕✅👍 Verified~👍✅💕!

The initial review (which came out of nowhere at the end of last week) rated the game as "Playable" due to "Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read" but thankfully they listed the exact part that was non-compliant, and it was an easy fix. So I just did that and requested a re-test, which they did within a couple days. Nice.

Before and after text size fix:

It's good to be more legible, anyway.

I wish they would have done the initial review sooner, like before the Daily Deal and Summer Sale, but my guess is the number of copies sold during those events was what pushed the game up the review queue in the first place.

Anyway, I'm hoping it'll result in a decent visibility boost, considering it'll be "Great on Deck" now. Maybe it'll make a difference during the big sales. Maybe.

As far as Game 2 goes, I know once I finish writing a good outline I'll start having progress I can show off, but for now it's still mostly just writing stuff down in my notebook or brainstorming on a text doc. I have a good idea of what I want to make, but it's still in "coalescing" mode. That's just the creative process, as they say.

Art Stuff

To announce the verification after a 2 years wait or whatever, I drew a picture of Penny.

Or, at least, I sketched a picture, and then I couldn't muster up the motivation to actually draw it for the announcement. Then for this Ramble, I drew a low effort version to illustrate what it might have looked like. Oh no! I think it actually looks kinda good. Now it's Patreon exclusive I guess.

Merch Stuff

New stickers have arrived! I updated the shop and posted about it on social media.

I think the badly staged sticker store promo shot is a running gag at this point. But seriously, though. The stickers are great.

The Buy Three Get One coupon is still only for Patreon supporters at the moment, but I'll probably be making a new discount code for the public next month or so before I have to go on a lengthy trip. As a reminder, you can use this code on checkout: 2025BUY3GET1

And if you really want a Pixel Burger sticker I recommend you get it soon before the person who keeps buying out my entire stock of them strikes again.

Other Stuff

This week was a lot of "playing games for research". I finished Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (finally (good game)) and decided to just play a bunch of other games on my backlog and not feel guilty about it, considering I'm kind of still in the brainstorming phase for my own game. But it was indeed a good learning experience, and I took lots of notes. I'll write up a report on those later, maybe. Of course, on Thursday I got Donkey Kong: Bananza. That's probably all I'll be playing next week. It's a good game. So very good.

The End

That's it for the week, I guess. I'm still waiting for updates on an interesting thing that might be happening (merch related), and I'm hoping it'll be happening soon. Other than that, just doing everything I can. Holding on to what I am. Pretending I'm a superman. Hoping to have some actual updates for Game 2 next week, I'm still trying to have a trailer for Game 2 by TGS season, after all. Thanks for your support, old people and new people, as always! See you next week.