This is my tfgamesite contest entry on the theme of competition! It is a game where you compete for the World Cup of Mermaid Sumo Wrestling.

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Since I took a little break and got sick, I am not sure I will be able to finish the huge branching paths for the contest game in time. The main path is kind of really long too, so it is hard to make other branches just as long is they branch off too early or go completely different routes with no overlapping content at all.. There is a good amount of content though, and a bunch of endings.

I am feeling a little better now. After resting a lot I avoided getting very sick. I did have a slight fever and a headache for a bit but that went away. At the moment I just got an annoying cough but otherwise, I am feeling pretty ok.

On a side note, I am talking to someone about perhaps running another game of Demonic Evolution. Which is a lot of work to do, but they said they were interested in handling a lot of the mechanics and stuff. Which I think is the way to go, to get some help with it, so I can do more of those games, without it sucking up all the my time. So that might be something happening in the future. At the moment, just working on streamlining some rules and stuff.

Feeling a bit sick today. Rather, I am more like presick. Took today off and trying to get some rest, since actually getting really sick would be worse, especially with the contest deadline coming up.

With such a short deadline I probably shouldn’t have, but I took a few days off from the contest game. I just wasn’t super motivated, and I feel I have enough time to finish the game still, so I just took a few days off to recharge my batteries. That way I can blast through the rest of it quickly when I start again.

Took today off from working on anything since I had to go to the dentist and had some stuff to do. I have not been paying close attention to the word count for my contest game, but using the using the proof copy(which for some reason was never correct with my other game were I was keeping specific track of words counted) puts it at about 20k words. So that is good progress.

After I finish this game, next month I will finish up the stuff I was doing on Christmas(including that goblin game that didn’t make much sense for a Christmas game).

I am making good progress with the mermaid game for the contest. I actually have the first path almost to the end and I am wondering if I should stretch it a little further or not. I have time to make it longer, but I am also plan to make large branching paths in the game, and that would be easier if I don’t get crazy with the length.

The contest theme is competition, and my game is about mermaid sumo. What is mermaid sumo? It is when you put a circle on the surface of the water and two mermaids pop up out of the surface and sumo fight. The first one to knock the other out of the circle or dunk the other’s head under the water wins.

I forgot about the contest. I been thinking about what game I should work on this but then noticed the contest ends at the end of the month, so if I work all month on that, I can get it done. I am going to use the approach I used for national novel writing month, and aim for 2k words a day, so the game should have a decent amount of content even if I only work on it for a month.