Undead Debt: A Game about Student Loans

Devlog

• I have paid off my student loans
  January 17, 2022 by Moosadee

  I have managed to pay off my student loans, finally. I paid a total of $58,664.20 -- $50,600.11 for the principal, and $8,044.00 for the interest. I couldn't have done all this without my husband, and... Continue reading

  
• April 2020
  April 04, 2020 by Moosadee#quarantine

  Looking back at Undead Debt, a game I'd like to work more on, but... Content warning: Apocalypse, Covid-19, Suicidal Ideation 1. ...Death Stranding... A screenshot from Death Stranding of Sam Porter B... Continue reading

  
• Haven't done any work / depression
  September 12, 2019 by Moosadee#depression, #procrastination

  I don't know if it's just be, but I DON'T think it's just me, but I have no idea how to cope with working a stressful full-time job and coming home in the afternoon and being too tired to do ANYTHING... Continue reading

  
• Game mockup
  August 11, 2019 by Moosadee#mockup, #zombies

  First attempt at a mockup of what I'd like Undead Debt to look like. The environment is the hardest part, since it will basically just be one big map with a few cities, and you have to fight zombies... Continue reading

  
• Total student loans: $15,875.39
  August 11, 2019 by Moosadee#life, #money, #inspiration

  Hi, I'm Rachel. I'm 31 years old now, and I have a full time developer job, and I'm currently working on paying off my student loans by throwing over half my monthly income into payments each month. I... Continue reading

  
• On Hold Because Money
  January 01, 2019 by Moosadee

  Just a quick note - the game is currently on hold. Jan 2019 I have "free" because it doesn't make sense to job hunt before I'm going to be out of the country for a month, so I'll be focusing on making... Continue reading
• Programming Languages
  December 06, 2018 by Moosadee#programming, #stress, #C++, #python

  Agghh, so I've been refactoring my ezha engine to make it more manageable but here's the thing... I'm a C++ programmer and I don't have the same depth of knowledge in Python as I do in C++. I keep try... Continue reading

  
• Zombie Maker - Ready to play!
  November 21, 2018 by Moosadee

  It's Thanksgiving Week... I caught a cold on Monday... But I FINISHED THE ZOMBIE MAKER TODAY! ... Or well, I may add in additional items to it based on feedback, but it's usable! Zombify yourself - us... Continue reading

  
• Zombie Maker - Part 2 - Drawing Zombies
  November 09, 2018 by Moosadee#game art

  Store Stylez I've been having trouble envisioning a style to make this game, and I finally was just like "dood, just do it in your style ." I'm still going to make UI elements very chibi, but the mai... Continue reading

  
• 2 depressed 2 make art
  November 06, 2018 by Moosadee

  I haven't really worked on the game at all in the past ten days. I want to do some of the more artistic parts of the game, but depression just fucks up my ability to brainstorm and come up with ideas... Continue reading

  
• Zombie Maker - WIP!
  October 26, 2018 by Moosadee

  I've taken a bit of a break from working on Undead Debt this past week just due to being busy and tired and depressed. I really should be grading the huge backlog of programming assignments I have to... Continue reading

  
• New stylez
  October 18, 2018 by Moosadee#design, #artwork

  Design work I've been spending some time figuring out a design for Undead Debt, so this and last week I've been writing up ideas and making sketches, and I think I have somewhat of an idea of what I'm... Continue reading

  
• Just Refactoring
  October 13, 2018 by Moosadee#Refactoring

  I have a bunch of exams to grade but instead I mostly spent today refactoring the Undead Debt code. I'm also shifting to another IDE - LiClipse. The Eric IDE was getting annoying because the project m... Continue reading

  
• Zombies!!
  October 11, 2018 by Moosadee#zombies, #game art, #combat

  Zombies! Today I did some game art - making zombie sprites (idle and walking), added the Zombie objects in the game, and made it so that the zombie can damage you. I also did a lot of refactoring to c... Continue reading

  
• Bullets!
  October 10, 2018 by Moosadee#trig, #math

  Yesterday I worked on the shop mechanics and began working on the bullet system, though I was too tired to think about trig, so I finished that up today. Here's a new preview video! Source Code Undead... Continue reading

  
• Letter delivery system
  October 09, 2018 by Moosadee

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  Letter delivery system I'm in between Discrete Math and Data Structures class today, and I'm so burnt out on academia. I miss free time. :'( But today I managed to implement the letter delivery system... Continue reading

  
• Debugging and Refactoring
  October 06, 2018 by Moosadee#refactoring, #logger, #debugging

  Different IDE I usually use Geany for my Python projects, but since this project is getting quite a few files in it, it would be better to use something that allows me to save a project. I do not wan... Continue reading

  
• Town menus
  October 04, 2018 by Moosadee#user interface

  Video I went ahead and made a YouTube video with a preview of the game so far, since I haven't done much on YouTube recently. Menu Today I worked on adding a menu system in the game so when you go to... Continue reading

  
• Spritework
  October 02, 2018 by Moosadee#game art

  I managed to sneak in a little bit of coding time between the two classes I teach today. Unfortunately, I'm falling a bit short of my goal of "30 minutes of coding every day", but I have bills to pay... Continue reading

  
• Analyzing low framerate, pt 2
  September 26, 2018 by Moosadee#debugging

  Spent some more time analyzing the frame rate tonight, but really it seems just due to the map size more than anything too inefficient in the code. Full map loaded (120 tiles x 80 tiles): Small map lo... Continue reading

  
• Analyzing low framerate
  September 24, 2018 by Moosadee#debugging

  I'm feeling pretty anxious today so rather than work on a new feature I decided to try to just diagnose why the game's framerate is so low. First, I commented out the function call to draw the map, an... Continue reading

  
• School drama continues, I just want to make games
  September 23, 2018 by Moosadee#paying loans

  So apparently I'm going to meet with the dept chair on Monday to discuss this terrible class that I'm taking and what I can do about it. Bbllaaaahh why can't I just have a nice class to take for once... Continue reading

  
• Depression blob, being "extra", and ever increasing student loans
  September 21, 2018 by Moosadee#student loans, #time passing

  Life I forgot to do my half-hour yesterday. I got home from work at around 9 pm and ended up playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider for the night. Ahh, escapism - a rare luxury, but so sweet. I've spent mo... Continue reading

  
• JSON maps, exploring the U.S.
  September 20, 2018 by Moosadee#map loading

  For my 30 minutes today, I went ahead and implemented support for JSON maps in my Ezha framework . I have some kludgy temporary code in here at the moment for drawing the cities, but I'll work on addi... Continue reading

  
• City locations, Wonky horse
  September 19, 2018 by Moosadee#map editor, #ui, #sprites

  City locations on the map I decided that I'd prefer to store the city's locations on the map file itself rather than hard-coding it in the game - which I could do, but why clutter the code with that?... Continue reading

  
• Building the map
  September 18, 2018 by Moosadee

  Ezha Framework For Undead Debt, I'm starting off with my 'Ezha' framework that I had written previously, and spent time making a template project for. This means I don't have to write as much code get... Continue reading

  
• Total student loans: $29,478.61
  September 16, 2018 by Moosadee

  Hi, I'm Rachel. Undead Debt is a game I've been wanting to make for a few years, but I have not had the time to really sit down and work on programming this. Since graduating from university with my B... Continue reading