Man, what an absolute 💩show of a week!

Started it off with a visit to the ER, and a second of my three monitors blowing out (leaving me down to one functional monitor!)

Wednesday and Thursday I spent dismantling the monitors, fixing broken internal wires, recapping circuit boards, and getting them all mostly functional again. -- The third one still has some minor issues, so I've orded some parts to fully fix it next weekend. For now, I'll live with two monitors.

I also noticed my laptop wasn't turning on, so last night I ended up replacing the battery for that as well... -- Though I plan to do my gamedev from my desktop, it will be nice to have a lower spec system to test on.

Apparently though, something I do have going for me, is that past Mikey had the foresight to take Monday off -- likely, he was anticipating that I will want to sleep the whole day. -- Thanks, past-Mikey!

As for the "Tiny Creatures" theme, I'm got a number of weird ideas floating around in my head... haven't ruled out the idea of finally doing a Brain Slugs game. -- But something about my ER visit really wants to go in the "Fantastic Voyage" route, where you get shrunken down and injected into the veins of like... some BS thing... like the president's horse or whatever -- to save it's life (because obviously, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance). I feel like I could make a really absurd and funny game out of that premise...

A third option that just hit me while installing Unity and Visual studio is... maybe something with toys... like in a haunted doll house or something? -- It is spooky season after all...

Or maybe I'll do something completely different, like the little electrical creatures that live inside of power cables and make computers work (low-tech Tron?). So many choices!

Wish me luck! --Mikey

Here are some pictures of the monitors, laptop, and final desk setup: