Monthly Update - July 2025

Hey all! Welcome to my monthly update covering my Let's Plays and other projects, cross-posted to my personal blog and to my Patreon. Read on to see what I've been up to!

Let's Plays

First up is the progress on my Let's Plays which are posted to YouTube and Patreon.

Chained Echoes

As of this writing, I have recorded the entirely of act 2 and begun act 3 of Chained Echoes! As with the break between act 1 and 2, there will be a 1 week break between acts 2 and 3. I am unsure how long act 3 will be, but I remember it being about the same length as act 2 from my first playthrough.

Final Fantasy XIV

We did it!! We cleared Turn 13 of the Binding Coils!! That video released today! The LP now goes on a 4 week break, as I will resume recording Tuesday with the release of patch 7.3.

Game Development

The current motivation is to work on my game, not on a game engine. The good news about Godot being open source is if they do go down some awful path with adopting GenAI, I can just use an old version of the engine or use one of the inevitable forks.

Anyways, I've been learning a little bit of spritework, I made the primary four walking animations for the protagonist, and I intend to make to diagonal animations soon as well. These animations are implemented into the game. The animation system is easily extensible with additional directions. I made a simple but extensible state machine for the player. The game has a name now! Making a lot of progress in little bits and pieces which feels really nice.

Coming Up

Final Fantasy XIV is on a 4 week break, ending September 1st!

Chained Echoes continues! Act 2 will end August 22nd, and act 3 will begin September 1st!