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Update on Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara

2025-11-06T11:05:00.000-08:00

This is a bit hard to write but I guess most people will have thought it's probable by now - I won't be shipping the game in 2025. It's so close to completion in a lot of ways but I've had difficulty getting the last few things done ready for a final test phase. There are numerous reasons behind this but suffice to say that creating a game of this scale in your spare time is a difficult proposition at the best of times - and certain circumstances over the past year meant I didn't have the best circumstances to be able to work on the game in the way I needed to. (Not looking for sympathy or about to go into details - it's just life, and like sentient pizzas wearing nose-glasses, it happens.)

Part of the problem has been struggling for motivation, which is again down to a few different factors - my recent small project (AGSnake: The Last Bite) was an attempt to get myself back into it. To some extent it's worked (and it was a project that had been in the back of my mind for some time - I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out)... I just need to find that extra 10% to push myself back into the zone. Well, maybe more like 20%. At most, 30%... but I digress...

On more positive news, I've had some great voicing completed in recent months to really bring the characters to life. The voice cast now includes Sally Beaumont, Katie Aitken, and AGS Forum alumni Durinde, SinSin, Cat, Mandle, Viking, TheBitPriest, ManicMatt - the biggest problem I have with the voicing now is that I often don't like my own voicing in the game! I may need to redo a lot of my own lines, but it will be worth it to improve the overall quality.

Anyway, my currently plan is to release the game early in 2026, but I'm not setting a definite release date yet (although I do have a particular date in mind) - I only want to release the game when I'm really satisifed that it's finished and as good as I'm going to be able to make it. In all likelihood, sales are going to be nothing life-changing, so from that point of view I don't have sales pressure to release it - on the other hand, I don't like feeling that I've let people down because I led people to believe the game would be released this year. But again, life happens - I'm not the first, nor will I be the last, indie dev who has to push back release - in fact two games I've backed on Kickstarter have announced that their games will now be out in 2026 (yes, that did give me a little push to make this announcement publicly).

Speaking of other games that are coming out in 2026, check out Confidential Killings by Brane - with graphics by Lorenzo, the artist for Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara. It's an atmospheric murder-mystery - the demo will give you a really good idea of the flavour of the game.

Well that's it from me, for now. If you're looking forward to the game, maybe drop me a comment here letting me know - that could go a long way to helping me focus on the final development stretch!!

New game released! - AGSnake: The Last Bite

2025-10-26T02:52:00.000-07:00

For reasons beyond my understanding, I've wanted to make a Snake game in AGS for years. Needing a small side-project to help me focus my brain for the last development stint of Captain Disaster 3, I decided now was the time to make it. I had fun working out the game mechanics, how to track snake music and direction, collisions etc - yes you heard me, I found it FUN! - anyway, I added a few features to hopefully make it more fun, like power ups / downs and 2-player cooperative mode.

AGSnake: The Last Bite by CaptainD

Hope you enjoy it!

Incidentally, I subtitled it "The Last Bite" because it turns out that another AGS user had the idea of developing a Snake game with the name AGSnake - albeit, 14 years later, that hasn't been released (but don't give up hope, you never know!).

Voice test - Corneliustin

2025-09-29T02:19:00.000-07:00

Corneliustin was a fun character to write - he's kind of a cross between Stan from Monkey Island and Foghorn Leghorn. When we released the demo which had no voicing, I watched a few playthroughs where the person playing was adding their own voicing - and without exception, everyone voiced him as a Texan, so my writing must have been reasonably successful!

Here you can see - er, hear - Rob McManus with his spot-on interpretation of the character.

(Incidentally the sparks one the faulty control panel affect my first couple of words. It wasn't me doing weird things with my voice!!)

Captain Disaster Audiobooks

2025-09-28T04:07:00.000-07:00

A long time ago, in a galaxy pretty nearby, I started editing my original set of short stories starring the beloved space doofus and recording the results as audiobooks. I did the first five, and now I'm admitting defeat - I just don't have the time or energy to complete these. With the first 5 already recorded and available, I have made the decision to simply leave things as they are, but reduce the price from $10.99 (originally had 11 episodes to edit / record) to $4.99, to reflect how many episodes are actually available.

Below is an excerpt from Episode One, and the Itch page has excerpts for all 5 episodes.

Click here for the relevant page on Itch.

Website milestone

2025-09-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

In the big scheme of things it means nothing of course, but it feels quite significant to me - this website has now gone past 750,000 page views. Or, to put it in a way that perhaps sounds more impressive, three quarters of a million views.

That's all - it means nothing really, but I do love a good milestone! :-)

Flash Sale (Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots)

2025-08-24T02:29:00.000-07:00

60% off at Itch for 3 days:

Captain Disaster in: Death Has A Million Stomping Boots by CaptainD

"So Retro" bundle offer

2025-08-14T10:20:00.000-07:00

Until the end of August 2025, my two very, very retro games on Itch are available for just $1 each, or $1.50 for both!

Can you stay alive against the evil Crimson Tide Consortium in The Ancient Art of Staying Alive?

Can you guide enough snowflakes to their destination in the fiendish puzzle game Snow Problem?

Or even... get both?!!?!? Yes, two full retro game for less than the price of Horse Armour!

Riskaran Voices

2025-08-11T08:48:00.000-07:00

I wish I had a really exciting announcement or update to give you, but really at this stage all I can say is that slowly, steadily, but more slowly than I'd really like, the voice lines for the game are getting recorded, edited and checked.

So... yeah, that's it really. Work progressed, wishlists (hopefully!) increase, and we edge closer to a release candidate. It's true that I've had a few delays with both my own voicing and some cast members, but I think it's fair to say that we're well past the halfway mark now.

Soon I'll post a video or two with multiple characters speaking so you can get a real feel for how the final game is going to be, but in the meantime here's a screen grab of a voice line cut out and ready to go into the game...

Developer notes for the Adventure Game Missing Word Quiz

2025-07-29T02:14:00.000-07:00

This project took quite a long time and was a bit frustrating, for similar reasons to those I encountered when developing Noughts and Crosses and Wildards, Oh My! - for want of a better description, after a while the AI seemed to get "confused" about what was happening, and in fixing an issue, it messed up something that was working perfectly well before. (Admittedly I have encountered this phenomenon many times before with normal coding!) I used Gemini for this project - although in retrospect I should have used 2.5 Pro instead of 2.5 Flash - it has the advantage over ChatGPT that you can preview the running code in the console, which is a nice time-saver for testing.

As with most of the other projects, the initial phase got something working along the lines of what I wanted very quickly - in this case particularly, with gathering a lot of data and structuring it for use within the web page, the time-saving was fantastic. Then once again, just on the cusp if it becoming what I wanted it to, things started to go wrong. In my secular job I use AI for data analysis, drafting documentation and prototyping - and this is still where I believe the key benefits of AI exist at this stage, quickly putting something decent together that can be refined by humans (possibly with the assistance of AI, possibly without) - but that step from conceptualising to prototyping to the finished article seems, at present, to be a difficult hurdle.

After trying and failing a few times to get it to the state I wanted it to, I asked AI to take everything I'd already asked for and turn it into a comprehensive prompt to start the process from scratch (still in Gemini). This accomplished, I started a new conversation with this prompt and began again.

As it turned out, there was still a long way to go. The game was working absolutely fine until I asked it to introduce an extra step to choose the game length (10, 20 or 30 questions) - something about the code logic was failing here, and I couldn't get it right. One of my rules for this experiment of using AI to create small JavaScript games was that absolutely everything had to be done by the AI - so I didn't investigate the code myself or make any changes. Eventually I had to abandon this idea and go with a straight set of 20 questions each time.

Again, when I asked it to add social media buttons it worked great, but when I wanted to add a tweak later, things started going wrong. Now I must admit, my knowledge of the limitations of vanilla JavaScript is very... well, you know, limited - so perhaps the AI itself was not entirely the problem here, although eventually I did get it to work how I wanted it to (or at least, I think I did).

There was also the odd case of some hallucinating publisher information - it came up with a fictitious publisher for my own Captain Disaster games, and when I pointed out this error, it hallucinated a different publisher! (By "fictitious" I mean it was not the publisher for the games, not that the publisher itself didn't exist.) I solved that - I think! - by telling it to use the developer name for indie games where no publisher was specified.

I ended up using about 50 prompts to reach this stage, and I realise now that I added things at early iterations that I should probably have removed (or realised would not be needed later) - for instance, I started by getting it to pull the game titles of just the major series first - Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Tex Murphy, King's / Space / Police Quest - which obviously created a lot of duplication in my early tests. So, I added the key title words to the exclusion list (so they wouldn't be repeatedly used when the game was played) - this made sense at the time with a database of about 30 games, but with it expanded out to the current list of 217, it would actually be better to take them out of the exclusion list. (I'm a little reluctant to do this now, given that previous simple requests have caused other things to fail!)

All in all, this has been an interesting development project and I'm reasonably happy with the end result (not saying I won't necessarily tweak it occasionally, of course!) It's been interesting comparing the strengths and weaknesses of this development methodology compared to my normal coding efforts. Other AIs - especially paid ones or those developed specifically for coding modalities - may be better, but for the purposes of my experiment, I'm only using free models. There are ways in which AI can aid the coding flow, but certainly at this point any idea of AI replacing that flow seem a long way off (I'm not saying it would be desirable for that to happen, I'm just considering what is possible).

If anyone else out there wants to create apps with AI, it is certainly possible - but being able to clearly states your requirements and have an understanding of the underlying logic in the code, even if not the code itself, is important. I guess this was actually a moderately ambitious project given my self-imposed limitations, but it's something I'd had in mind to do for quite some time.

Anyway, I'm probably going to leave AI alone for a while as I have lots of voice lines to process for Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara (no AI code, art, music, voices etc in that one!! 😎 Just lots... and lots... and lots of work...)

Adventure Game Missing Word Quiz

2025-07-28T05:23:00.000-07:00

Adventure Game Title Challenge

Score: 0/0

[____]

Year: N/A | Publisher: N/A

Developer notes for this game.

Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara - three milestones acheived

2025-07-23T10:35:00.000-07:00

I'm a big fan of milestones - without them, you can often feel like your projects are going nowhere (and you can apply this to various domains of life, not just specific projects). Er... so, anyway, 3 milestones we've reached for the game recently:

- 150 demo downloads on Itch

- 400 demo downloads on Steam

- 1,000 voice lines both recorded and processed for Captain Disaster (who, as you may image, has far more voice lines in the game than any other character!) For reference, this is slightly over half his voice lines for the game. For all characters, a bit more than half have been recorded and processed.

We're getting there. It feels painfully slow at times, but we are getting there!

A Mirthful Tale of AI Hallucination!

2025-07-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

A while ago we did a series of fake adverts for the game - like this one:

Now, whilst I tend to obsessively save everything (and indeed, I had a copy of this file if only I'd remembered where I put it!), my mind had gone as blank as the Captain's for a moment and I decided to see if I could find it by searching the web. So I searched for "Captain Disaster how does he get his hair so straight".

As you may know, Google's search (and no doubt several others) has a public AI component to it now. Whilst the image itself did not want to be found, AI hallucinated this lovely method of CD keeping his hair straight.

If you actually try this method, please let me know!! :-D

Also, there was no mention of alien slime secretions, which is frankly unforgiveable.

Secure Password Generator - made with AI

2025-07-23T02:36:00.000-07:00

Secure Password Generator

Password Length (8 - 20): 12 Include Wildcards (!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *) Include Spaces

Your secure password will appear here.

Developer Notes

This was really quick and easy to make (used ChatGPT), probably because it's a very simple operation with clear and easily definable paramaters.

Browser-based Fractal Explorer (made with AI)

2025-07-22T11:41:00.000-07:00

I decided to try creating something with Gemini instead of ChatGPT and have to say, this is pretty impressive as the result of a handful of prompts! I often got an error message in Gemini, but then it completed everything correctly anyway.

Although let's see how well it works within a Blogger post..

I've always been fascinated by fractals, but never really understood the maths of it well enough to code a generator myself. I added the colour-cycling because of my memories being used of the effect on the 16-bit computers (Neochrome's waterfall is probably the best-known example from the Atari SI).

Advanced Fractal Generator

Fractal Generator

Fractal Type:

Color Hue: °

Depth:

Angle: °

Length Reduction:

Flow Problem - updated version available

2025-07-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

I've just posted a big update to this game.

Music and sound effects added
QOL enhancements (you may or may not notice them, but they're there!!)
I've really worked on optimising the code for the main game loop, resulting in a big frame rate improvement - on my PC it now maintains a pretty constant frame rate of 60fps, whereas in the initial build it usually sat between 45-50fps
Native Linux build added

Whether you've played it already or not, I hope you enjoy the results of this update!

Get it on Itch (it's free)

Flow Problem update imminent

2025-07-19T11:23:00.000-07:00

Within the next few days I'll launch the updated version of Flow Problem - containing QOL improvements, improved performance, music and sound effects - and, thanks to a slight issue I noticed, even improved physics! (You may never notice this bit though 🤣 )

I aim to release a Linux version as well, as long as I can confirm with someone that it works okay. I may potentially look into tweaking a version for Android and maybe release a web-version, but for now I'm sticking with Windows and (hopefully) Linux. I need to redesign the Itch page as well because it was a real rush job with little to no thought put into it, which was fine for a quick experiment, but since I've taken the time to update it, I'll update the page as well!

Flash Sale Alert!

2025-07-19T10:11:00.000-07:00

In case you missed them in the Steam Summer Sale, or just prefer to get them on Itch...

All 75% off the normal price:

Or, pick up all 3 for just $4.99!!

This sale runs over the weekend only.

Colourdoku - experimental build

2025-07-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

I want to assess this for playability and, in particular, whether the "colour-blind mode" actually helps people with colour-blindness. (I asked AI to add this feature in but didn't specify how it should work, and to be honest, I'm not sure myself how it should work!)

This is the 16th iteration since I began developing this game with AI. Full developer notes will accompany the final release, but if you're interested, you can read more about my experiment of creating JavaScript games with AI. This particular game, obviously a version of Sudoku but with colours (and not strictly using Sudoku rules), is based off an earlier game I made with AGS years ago (I hate to think what my coding looked like at the time) - apparently this game still lurks on GameJolt!

The object of the game is simple - don't repeat a colour in the same vertical or horizontal row.

Colourdoku

Grid size: Difficulty: Hint Display Time:

Noughts and Crosses and Wildcards, Oh My! - a JavaScript game created using AI tools

2025-07-15T08:09:00.000-07:00

Wildcard Grid Game

AI Style: Difficulty:

Scores — Player: 0 | AI: 0

AI Move Log

Game Rules

6x6 grid
4 wildcard (?) symbols randomly placed — never adjacent or on outer edge
Players take turns (Player = O, AI = X)
Wildcards count as either O or X for scoring
Scoring:
- 3 in a row = 1 point
- 4 in a row = 2 points
- 5 in a row = 3 points
- 6 in a row = Instant win
Game ends when no empty cells or no further scoring possible

Development Notes

Well, this was a weird one in terms of development, as I seemed to be constantly battling Chat GPT missing out new bits, or putting in the new bits but omitting what was already there. I'm still not quite sure whether it was because I didn't provide enough clarity in my prompts at times (I didn't think that was the case, but certainly something was going wrong!). I repeatedly hit the free data analysis limits and had to wait till the next day. What I present here is fully playable and incorporates all my game design ideas, although the AI opponent is pretty lacking in any meaningful challenge still.

For this game I took the classic Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe) idea and quadrupled the playing area - to a 6 x 6 grid - and allowed for runs of 3, 4, 5 and 6 in a row - the last one being an outright game winner, although technically it should be pretty much impossible for it to happen unless one player is really not paying attention! Then I added a scoring system for the runs, obviously longer runs bringing higher scores, and also added 4 randomly-placed wildcard symbols ("?") which could work as either O or X, depending on what was next to it. That was probably the trickiest aspect for the AI to understand and build working code for.

With the slightly hit-and-miss results from asking the GPT to update the code, there are a couple of things missing from this build. (It was like a game in itself, where version control had random elements!) I did have it highlighting the scoring phases briefly but this got lost from the "final" code. I may possibly go back to it and re-implement this, and improve the AI, but for now it's a playable enough game so I'm going to leave it alone for now. May be for my next project, I'll try creating a game that doesn't involve an opponent - I wonder if this will be easier.

We shall see!!!

See also my first game experiment - just standard Noughts and Crosses.

More about my experiment to make simple JavaScript games with AI Tools.

Development Updates

2025-07-14T12:55:00.000-07:00

First and foremost, Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara is slowly nearing completion. I received a new character's voicing today, so will process that and add to the game. What's needed now is the final voicing, including some by myself, and a bit of work on the codebase, before a release candidate can be sent to the testers. No specific timeframe as yet, but it's getting nearer. If you haven't already, please remember to wishlist the game!

In the background I've been making good progress on an update for Flow Problem - I've added music and sound effects, improved the tutorial, added a couple of QOL improvements and most significantly, greatly optimised the code to enhance performance. Pixel-based commands in AGS are pretty expensive and reviewing the original code (which admittedly I'd rather put together in a hurry) the frame rate was pretty bad on anything but a high-end machine (crazy I know for a 320x200 game with extremely simple graphics!) - but this is now vastly improved. I'm having a weird issue with the executable created by the AGS Editor right now, otherwise I might have pushed it out this evening.

Finally my experiments with creating JavaScript games with AI have been... frustrating. The initial prototype was created very quickly and looked promising, but since then I've had a lot of issues with ChatGPT seemingly not retaining old information when adding new, or asking if I want it to embed the new code into the full page code, me saying yes, it saying that's done, me looking at the code or testing the game and realising that no, it isn't... or, it has been, but other crucial parts of the code have been removed. I'm not quite sure if it's something I'm doing or not. Because of my insistence with this experiment to use only the free version of ChatGPT, I'm frequently having to wait until the next day to get to the point I thought I'd reached 3 prompts earlier. It's... strange. I may try Gemini for this at some point. Anyway it's very much a side project, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Noughts and Crosses - simple JavaScript game created with AI

2025-07-09T06:27:00.000-07:00

Your turn (X)

Difficulty:

Who goes first:

Development Notes

Gotta start small, right? So I started with the smallest game project I could think of - noughts and crosses, or "Tic-Tac-Toe", if you prefer. Since the visuals are extremely basic and the game logic is about as simple as it gets, not to mention that AI knew the rules without me having to tell it, getting an initial mockup was ridiculously easy. What took a little more effort was fine-tuning the AI opponent - even though (apart from the "unbeatable" level - draw on that to see a quote from War Games, an 80s movie I love) , it was basically a case of combining randomn placement and probability weighting to make the best moves (obviously, the easier the opponent, the lower the probability of it choosing the best move).

Then things like adding choices (difficulty level, who goes first) and how the game responds to game-ending events. It's very simple, but quite playable. I was glad I started with this as it was easy but also very informative as to how to structure the next, more ambitious project.

This game took 8 prompt iterations to reach the final stage. With prompting, testing and thinking time, I guess it took about an hour to put together. There is scope to expand it but I'm not really planning to (although I may possible get it updated to work better on mobile devices) as this was absolutely just a learning project and the real fun will be trying to create a game with a unique ruleset.

More about my experiment to make simple JavaScript games with AI Tools.

About my experiment to make simple JavaScript games using AI tools

2025-07-09T01:53:00.000-07:00

In case anyone’s thinking that using AI tools to help create games is just a case of typing into ChatGPT “make me a game like Tetris, but better”, it isn’t. (Well, I guess in truth I haven’t actually tried that, but…) The thing with AI is that the quality of output you get is very much dependent on the quality of input you give it. Also, don’t expect that you can get what you’re looking for on the first go – you can try to front-load the first prompt with context and information, but that will still only get you so far.

So why did I want to experiment with using AI to make simple JavaScript games in the first place?

· I have no interest in actually learning to code JavaScript – I simply don’t have the time. It took me long enough to learn AGS script (which is very similar to C++) which means I can usually follow what’s happening in JS due to similarities in the two languages structures, but I can’t code it. (I did code HTML many years ago, but really even back a couple of decades ago, most people were using a visual editor rather than hand-coding it anyway.)

· I use AI quite extensively in my day job and have become fascinated by the possibilities. Like most people who have actually spent significant time learning about and using AI, I see it as simply a tool that can be used, and rather than deskilling it can be used to help people in certain professions focus on what their jobs actually should be, rather than spending most of their time on repetitive documentation tasks. I do appreciate that there are specific use cases where use of AI is highly controversial – art generation for instance – and I fully understand that viewpoint.

· Linked to that, it seems to me that AI has been trained on coding that has been intentionally made publicly available. My goal is to leverage the strengths of AI – which is in producing clean, usable boilerplate code and implementing simple game logic – while avoiding trying to get it to do anything too complex. That’s where a real coder is still (from my understanding, at least) miles ahead of what a GPT can do.

· Given that, I’m using an AGILE methodology – my process is a very simple three-tiered loop:

o Think about what I want to achieve on this iteration

o Create a prompt that explains this to the GPT as clearly as possible

o Test the results, and go on to the next iteration (unless I feel the game has already reached its target state)

o This is very small-scale stuff, just me working with AI, so I’m not bothering with even thinking of anything in terms of “sprints” etc.

What’s required from me in this case, since I’m not doing any of the actual coding? Well, first of all, I need the original idea. (My very first project was a simple noughts-and-crosses game, just as proof of concept, but my plan is to create some small but unique games.) Then it’s a case of knowing how to write high-quality AI prompts, and how to give it comprehensive, clear instructions that are not open to AI hallucinations. Along with this, understanding how the game should work at a fundamental level is required – if you’re just remaking noughts and crosses then yeah, no specific knowledge is needed, but if you want to create something unique, you need to first understand yourself exactly how it should work “under the hood” and then how to get that across to the GPT.

In theory, each iteration should take you nearer to the goal. In practice, I have found that whilst this is usually the case if my prompts are very precise, there is still room for the GPT to misinterpret what I’ve asked it to do (the blame for this can be shared between me and the GPT!)

I’ve set certain limitations for myself – I only want to create something in vanilla JavaScript (with a little HTML / CSS thrown in for the page design), so no libraries allowed, it must be either a single player or player vs AI opponent, and it must run within a Blogger post (so I can put it here along with a short explanation of how the game was designed). I will also be using only the free Chat-GPT model, and (potentially barring some very small modifications to the HTML components) not directly editing the code myself.

My goals with this are simply to have a bit of fun seeing what I can come up with and learn a bit more about the possibilities and limitations of current free GPT models. I also needed something a little different to kick-start my brain – with what time I have available, hand-crafting games in AGS is still my main focus. When all’s said and done, there’s nothing quite like solving a tricky coding problem yourself!

Another small AI-adjacent experiment I’ve put together is a browser-based Eliza Emulator, inspired by the classic 1960s chatbot.”

Development Updates

2025-07-08T11:04:00.000-07:00

Progress on Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara has been slowly progressing. I've had a struggle with certain elements of it and a few setbacks, but it's still getting ever closer to a release candidate for the final big round of testing.

Unfortunately, I have the type of brain that really struggles to stay on one project at a time - sometimes this is helpful, sometimes not, and I'm sure a few people reading this will be wondering what on earth I'm talking about, whilst others will be nodding sympathetically because that's how their brain works too. Anyway, the long and short of it is that I've gone back to Flow Problem, done a heap of code optimisation and added some music and sound effects, and will probably release a big update to that game soon.

Last but potentially not least, I've decided to investigate the feasibility of using AI to create simple JavaScript games. I'll post a bit more on this later. I'm only doing it for fun, to see if I can create some quick fun puzzle games that you can play free in a browser, but my early experiments are very possible. It does make me think of the joke "Make my game" button older AGS editors used to have, but that's not how it works in real life! I'll do a post on my methodology soon.

(I'm not planning on using AI to make anything in AGS btw!!! Just in case anyone wondered.)

Steam Summer Sale!

2025-07-03T09:06:00.000-07:00

It's that time again - the weather causes prices to melt, or something.

Anyway, all three of my games on Steam are a massive 75% off for the duration of the sale:

Captain Disaster and the Two Worlds of Riskara - in 15 seconds!

2025-02-23T02:42:00.000-08:00

Well, this "My indie game in 15 seconds" thing has been trending on social media for a while now, so I thought I'd better get in on the act - then I also realised it's been ages since I updated this blog!

So here we are: