Hello again. Here's another monthly update to show what I've been working on.
The Heliodex/sprig repository includes a set of tools and the Sprig Shooter game for the Hack Club Sprig game console. While the engine was designed to work with tile-based games, Sprig Shooter is a bitmap-based arcade-style game. Shoot enemies and avoid crashing into them to gain score, and the game gets harder as you progress.
The limited capabilities of the Sprig was a fun challenge to work around, and making bitmap graphics and music alongside custom engine behaviour and collision detection was a great learning experience. I've applied to get my hands on the real hardware, and I can't wait to see how the game runs on it.
For notetaking in general, my weapon of choice over the past few years has been MindMup, chiefly with their top-down hierarchical view, short atomic descriptions, and huge maps (~3000 nodes). However I've always had some gripes with its performance, UI, and display density, so I've been working on a custom notetaking tool.
A MindMup-like tree view ended up being difficult to write, so I'm going for a column-based layout instead, which may make parents/children of nodes difficult to parse, but provides a much denser information view. The project was named nostaking because I was planning to store notes on Nostr, though for the time being it'll be local-first.
A number of other features have been requested for Mercury Core, so I'll likely work on those next. I'm also considering porting Nocte to work with the Zune runtime, but initial tests show that some features are still more stable in Lune.