Ending the Year Strong!
Oops! The year is almost over! In my last newsletter post, I mentioned that I'd "post again soon". Unfortunately, I had to tie up some loose ends so "soon" turned into half a year!
I have been working on a couple of things during that time though...
Projects
Vala Documentation Website
One of the reasons why I worked on the standalone Vala Website launched in 2022 was because I was worried about the GNOME Wiki potentially being archived or shut down in the future.
My fears from 2022 became a reality. In September last year, a proposal was made to retire the GNOME Wiki.
From April onwards, I worked on the new Vala documentation website in my free time. Around June, the critical content that people need is now in available in the site: https://docs.vala.dev.
Last One Flying
I started getting more of my free time back in Autumn. I decided to create a new 2D top-down arcade shooter.
If you're interested in seeing the game's devlogs, you can check out the game on itch.io.
Feel free to follow me on itch.io to receive devlogs of the game's progress in your inbox too!
You can try out the game at: https://colinkiama.itch.io/last-one-flying.
Twitch
I've had at least 10 livestreams since the last newsletter post.
I've mainly been working on Last One Flying. It's been great chatting with all of you live. Suggestions from the live chat such as "Screen Shake" have
made the game feel amazing to play, even without much features implemented at the time!
You can check out the full streams on-demand in my "Livestreams" Playlist on YouTube.
To catch the livestreams live, follow me on Twitch, it would be fun to interact with all of you live!.
The End
I'm currently focused on finishing Last One Flying by the end of the year. Hopefully, I will mention the game being completed in the next issue of this newsletter!
Thank you for your patience!
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