It’s been a bit, hasn’t it? My last post went up around my birthday – though age is just a number until your back starts hurting, and life has been a total whirlwind ever since. Between the constant “life things” and navigating a few hurdles, I haven’t had much time to breathe, let alone write.
The biggest update, however, is that I’ve finally made some massive breakthroughs with the game systems for DAPAUE, my detective project. It’s starting to feel like a real mystery now.
As you can probably tell, the game looks completely different now—most notably, it’s officially moved into 3D. I started feeling like the “Investigative Desktop Sim” genre was getting a bit stale; there are so many variations popping up lately that the space really needs a fundamental shift. This is my attempt to shake things up.
Inspired by the atmospheric storytelling of Gone Home and Virginia, DAPAUE casts you as a moderately respected agent sent to investigate a string of mysterious murders in a coastal Irish town. You’ll be:
- Interacting with a cast of suspicious characters.
- Collecting physical clues from the environment.
- Connecting the threads on your own evidence board to uncover the truth.
I’m aiming for a grounded, practical approach to detective work. That means zero hand-holding. There’s no “ding” when you find the right answer; in fact, you won’t even know if you’ve actually solved the case. I’m leaving that for the player community to debate and figure out together.
Obsidian Plugin!
In other news, I officially released my very first Obsidian plugin on GitHub today! It’s called Tab Colors, and it does exactly what you’d expect: it lets you assign custom colors to your tabs.
It does exactly as the name suggests. Let’s you assign a custom color to tabs!
This started as a classic “I wish this existed” passion project. I’ve wanted this feature in Obsidian for ages. Inspired by the Adaptive Tab Bar Color, but wanting something more like OneNote where I can choose my own colors for tabs, I decided to try my hand at making one for Obsidian which happens to be my favorite notes app.
Also it works in darkmode!
Feel free to check it out and make some suggestions. I’ve already started working on some more features like tag assigned color, and some note background options.
Hopefully will get into a better habit of updating this site, it’s suppose to be my personal version of social media, but I guess no social media is better than any social media.
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