decker fantasy camp 2025

Join us during the month of July to make something -anything- using Decker!

• July 1st 2025 at 3:00 AM EST to August 1st 2025 at 3:00 AM EST
• jam page on itch.io + WIP discussion thread

i submitted something! → cell culture

devlog

july 1^st

• i joined the decker visual novel jam in may/june, but bailed because i didn’t come up with a story idea
  • i still do want to make a VN in decker… hmmmmmmm…
  • maybe the “novel” part intimidates me. would it be easier to get started if i call it a poem or a zine?
• BE BOLD! IT’S JAM TIME!

july 2^nd

• searching my mind for ideas, still not finding any stories
• starting from scratch is too hard, so what if i just expand on something i’ve made in the past? what’s an idea that still nags at me?
  • i think about ribo.zone/weirdweb/ritual/ a lot
  • omg pink decker jam is still going
  • whoa… that’s it — pink cell culture point & click
• deadline is now July 19th 2025 at 9:41 AM EST if i want to submit to both jams

july 3^rd

• took some photos in lab today
  • no plan, just the obvious ones: biohazard labels, hood, microscope, cells
  • put a few into decker and they look good in 1-bit pink :)
• not sure if i want to go in a more point & clicky or text-centric direction
  • at minimum, i could just give each written step from /weirdweb/ritual/ a corresponding photo
  • i want to do more, but… small scope → finished game
• did the css for the itch page

july 12 ^th

• i’m so used to working within the limits of html/css that having a canvas where i can put anything anywhere feels kind of overwhelming… aaaaeee
• thinking about multimedia, thinking about tone, thinking about real data vs the illusion of data
• added a table from wikipedia
  • highlight table text → ctrl+c → create new google sheet → ctrl+v → download as .csv → open .csv in notepad++ → ctrl+a → ctrl+c → open widget menu in decker → new grid → check “Edit as CSV” → ctrl+v → yay
• really pleased with the first two cards, but the third is kicking my ass for some reason
  • text is starting to diverge from original webpage (good) but idk exactly what i want to say (frustrating)
  • the image i wanted to use looks awkward every way i’ve tried to arrange it with text (extra frustrating)
• i still have like a week to make this! it will be ok

july 17^th

• oh shit where did the week go?
  • mostly work
  • dinner & live music one night w/ ben’s ma
  • melonland got guilds! i made one! so spent a bunch of my free computer time this week working on that instead of working on this, oops
    • “you got nerd sniped” - ben
• i still think i might be able to make the pink decker deadline (1 day 11 hours from now, at time of writing). i may not have been actively working on it but the ideas have been rotating in my mind. i think i know how i want to rework the part i was stuck on over the weekend

july 18^th

• i took some more photos in lab
  • didn’t get every step of cell culture because i didn’t want to be slow and stress my cells out
• eeeek friday night crumch
• spent a while messing with the position of text instead of writing again…
• asked ben for advice on text positioning and he told me that is isn’t the layout, it’s the text (true)
  • rewrote it and made a card that felt good and right, then scrapped all original plans of what should come after and focused on that feeling
    • it is done :)
• all that’s left is to add links to the credits section
  • wait can i not have text be a link and be monospace? it’s one or the other? noooo
    • well. ok. ‘tis what ‘tis
• i submitted with about 9 hours left yaaaay wooohooooo
• still past my bedtime. i sleep

july 21^st

• almost jumped out of my chair when i noticed pizzapranks added cell culture to this collection
  • “If your game is on this list I would certainly recommend submitting your game to Indiepocalypse!’”
  • i was literally honestly really truly listening to indiepocalypse radio at that moment
  • unbelievably wild