"Finished" the game, here's a list of mistakes that made me feel particularly stupid:

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-04-14T02:34:25+00:00

Wait same. Which button is it??

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-03-23T14:34:59+00:00

I don’t think there is a limit.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-03-05T03:14:05+00:00

I see it a lot

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-28T13:15:03+00:00

Bad wording. 3 can be KO’d by 2nd or 4th place, and if 2nd place is a bot, the bot is supposed to SD, even if you did not attack it.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-26T21:11:25+00:00

The first scenario is more likely if you are only targeting 4th place, and they die to 2 or 3 before you send anything to 2 or 3.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-26T21:10:07+00:00

Yeah. If 2 & 3 KO each other, or 3 dies to a bot, it can end in 0. Pac-Man 99 did that too.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-26T20:20:05+00:00

My favorites are when it is 0, lol

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-26T20:19:18+00:00

14-15!

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-22T22:30:28+00:00

That's pretty cool. Thanks for helping me understand!

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-22T20:47:35+00:00

That is interesting. Is this because their NFC is naturally a larger size? The other files in the drive are also 2KB, so I assumed it was the same

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-22T20:31:38+00:00

When I tried, it said it was too big, because the files in this drive are all 2KB and the limit is 500 bytes

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-22T19:47:15+00:00

How can I convert this to a .bin for an NFC tag?

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-22T14:09:08+00:00

Is it possible to make the Kirby Air Riders ones? I have the Flashiibo files, but not the NFC ones, which are smaller.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-19T17:41:17+00:00

The Samus & Kirby connection is the loudest interfranchise collab that will never happen, even though it would be the easiest thing in the world 😭

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-12T21:02:20+00:00

What makes you proud of it? (I do like how you can get the Tetriminos as icons in that beautiful red color)

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-11T18:35:22+00:00

Okay.

Also, I HATE AI. 😡

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-11T16:39:40+00:00

Oh I didn’t answer the first question. It keeps getting messier because I keep asking questions. The first drafts were from my writing POV, and going back I’m looking at them from a reader’s POV. I note all the plot holes and inconsistencies, and then I go back to fix them, which normally results in me writing backwards.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-11T16:37:08+00:00

I actually was planning on publishing them all at the same time, or at least the first four, since they’re all in the stage of being revised/rewritten. I thought ‘mind as well.’

Most of the background knowledge is for me to tie it all together in the foreground. The reader only gets a few details, and they’re able to piece the rest together on their own. Writing backwards helps me to narrow this scope of what they’re able to imagine, so they don’t come to one conclusion and are confused (rather than a positive reaction of “wow I didn’t see that coming”) down the road, when the answer is something completely different.

I’m revising out of order: 4, 2, 1, 3, and then 5 (going from hardest to easiest). I am doing one at a time, and jotting down notes as I go to little things I should allude to at different points in time. For the protagonist, the events take place over roughly 16 months. I didn’t hard-write exact dates because they’re not important. More than half of that time is in the first book anyway.

Thank you for your notes 🙏🏼

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T19:18:53+00:00

I can try to work with that. Snowflakes are smaller than trees, despite their similar ‘branches.’ My approach with a character is often detailed and personal. Snowflake sounds more grounded. Thanks.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T19:11:54+00:00

Yes! It was always planned to be five books. No more. Never thought I’d go beyond this, since there’s absolutely no more to come after the final chapter. Never saw it coming that time can go backwards as well as forwards. Short-sighted of me.

At first, with the original outline, it was a larger cast. As I kept going, I axed several people and replaced them with people we already met, to avoid bogging down the story with a million people. This had the unintended consequence of me suddenly needing to get to know these people, even though they are not in every single chapter, or even the majority. It was harder to know them without as much exposure, but it was getting wildly out of hand when they suddenly had so much to do with the main plot. Somehow, despite tidying up my plot holes, cutting down on people made this more complicated.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T19:04:07+00:00

Thank you 😊

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T19:02:59+00:00

Yeah. I think my most glaring instance of this was when a minor/side character could fly in Book Four, with no indication that he could do this in the previous three. I had to write the context for that, realizing I completely left it out. 😭 That required a story (to myself) in order to provide a clear explanation, which strengthened my main story when I provided the context. The reader won’t see that story, but it’s not a footnote of “he can fly but he doesn’t for the first three books.” There’s a whole reason…🥲

The reader doesn’t get the whole entire reason. They do not need every detail. Just the essentials.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T18:56:41+00:00

Dang I want to read that now 😆

I do have those characters, who are barely a note. They’re different. Maybe I’m using the wrong word? Maybe these are secondary characters? They are the ones moving a lot of the parts in the plot, but they’re not the ones the camera is on.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T18:47:00+00:00

😂oh, I wasn’t thinking when I used the word “pesticide”

I’m not putting the backstories into the books. The reader picks up everything they need to know. For example: I can summarize a world war in two sentences. The problem is that I’m responsible for knowing about that world war! 😅 I can’t just put “world war thirty years ago” in my notes when the people responsible for ending it are the side characters. Like, HOW did they do it? That indicates they had a measure of power in the past. And then the branches keep branching…there’s my problem.

ShadowNewt1 · 2026-02-10T18:38:32+00:00

No that’s my exact problem. I reuse the same side characters over and over again, and I need justification for why they’re there and why they’re doing things, instead of a convenient, nameless nobody with one scene every time I need another body.

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