kbrecordzz company blog (formerly known as "This Is (NOT!) A Car Club - Blog")

250811: not doing anything on bankrupt

250810: production. and thinking about the phase of streamlined production. the main idea is to not think about it too much, so i'll stop now.

250809: production

250808: production



250807: Hornöga haunted island



250806: Pol'and'Rock?

250805: thinking about sponsoring

250804: nothing

250803: Disappeirce's printing house




250802: started up bankrupt game production. Starting up feels incredibly hard, but it's the easiest part. Now I'm done with that. Next comes the hard part, which is creating something actually good, but that part feels easy so I'll just do it.

Focus on the fun. Not on the gameplay or the technology

Take breaks for inspiration, etc

Get back and add more

Don't think too much about things

Then... done (except for everything else that needs to be done that I ignore in this optimistic "plan")



250801: tested second episode in BooN. didn't get past level 2 here either.

250731: put together Manago's website. trying to do one minimal thing related to bankrupt game per day. just to get into the habit. then it'll have to flow naturally and not forced.
tested first episode in BooN. didn't get past level 2

250730: watched a music video by Suicideboys (here) and found inspiration.

250730: I will in a month start putting together all ideas, thoughts and material into the notacarclub spiritual sequel. I don't want to plan too much, but I want to be prepared. Notes are scattered all over the place(s) and I want to use them all and not waste anything. Making this game is complex, there's a threshold to get back into the work every time, so I want to be in it for 3 months and have the project top of mind. But i also don't want to overwork because it won't help the result. I'll use the Nordic darkness to motivate me to stay inside, and focus on getting much done every second weekend or something. Every such weekend will be for some specific thing or have a specific theme, so I don't end up doing the same chore all the time. It must be fun and varied and not feel like work. Then I'll make small changes on the evening after my job, to just keep the habit. Maybe I'll just write something here every day and nothing else.

Or maybe I'll start slowly in August. Here are some ideas for a couple of weekend tasks:

1. Finish Manago HQ inside (rooms, objects, NPCs?)
2. Finish island's nature, from my ideas in photos and notes
3. Implement random ideas I've written down, those that aren't very connected to the story
4.

Preferably I'll do one of these or come up with something else, and then scrap the rest. I'll probably come up with something better at the right time. I don't want rigid plans, but I want suggestions for getting started. Then everything else will follow.

(Now for the hard part: Stop talking and start doing)

250729: Went out in Sweden to get inspired by Sweden, but realized I don't need to see anything new to get inspired. Even more local and personal are the places I already know and see all the time, where I've experienced things, those places I never think about because they're the default. Those can create the best art because I know exactly what it means to experience those places.
Also studying MrBeast's production manual from 2021. A clear focus, learning from mistakes to develop, remove unnecessary obstacles and bottlenecks for efficiency, take personal responsibility and keep the control in your hands to leave nothing to chance, be pragmatic and expect and prepare for problems, focus on results over prestige.
SM Entertainment: charm, (visual) perfection, technically skilled execution or performance. All this meticulously practiced by the k-pop stars, so much that they lose some of their personal quirkiness because they all strive for the ideal. And a love for unique art, setting trends and shiny & bright elegance. It's the training, the ideals and the creativity that do it.

250728: thought about the source of SM Entertainment's elegance and quality

250727: getting inspired by Sweden for game locations and vibe. It feels like people don't know games can be about other places than LA (and some other famous cities and areas) and imagined places in the common fantasy and sci-fi way. Why not make it about where you live? That local "boring" place no one has ever shown? Show it for just that reason?

250726: didn't think of anything interesting. But found some nature that inspired me for game locations. You never know what will work as it transfers from a real-life experience to a game world, though.

250725: working on the kbrecordzz "manual". or at least thinking about working on it. maybe thinking about things is the work, in some cases.
when writing on a book-like product, i'm constantly being dragged back and forth between trying not to be too humble (if you've never written anything book-like before, you see yourself as a person lower than those writing books, and don't believe your views and opinions are worthy for a printed book. that's dumb, because everyone writing books were in that perspective first and then just started writing) and being too confident in my opinions. i don't wanna try to convince everyone reading that i have the one and only truth. but i want some of my propaganda to be seen and spread. i try to keep only what i'm 100% sure of (what i've been sure of for a long time) and what i believe in 100% in the manual.

250724: UPDATE - Adele's Legendary Snowboarding Camp v0.9 is out on kbz.se.
Now you can play local multiplayer, and there is one new level. And a cool menu at the beginning.

250724: UPDATE - BooN v0.8 is out on kbz.se.
Now the levels are in the right order, and I've tried to clarify some things, mostly around controls. And there are (a few) sound effects and music!

250723: i'm thinking of eventually starting to write here every day again. it would be the least effort possible to get some regular schedule on the kbrecordzz/kbz.se operations. and it wouldn't add anything to my day (which planning and structuring usually does, and adding a thing to my day when i'm just one person who also has a day-job means nothing left to actually do things), because these are the things i think about anyway.

just do something every day. and that thing could be to just write this. to prevent procrastination, and create habit. not to create productivity. by creating a sustainable habit, and not an intense habit that i grow tired of eventually, productivity will emerge over the long term.

i usually do something every day, and in the end all the random things i do turn into something cool, even if i didn't plan for that to happen. so i don't need much more habit for my own sake, if i'm completely honest. but i also want this structure and regularity for people following kbrecordzz/kbz.se as well. there should be a place where you get an update every day (or something like that). the updates shouldn't die for a week just because i don't feel like posting anything, because i don't want people to wonder where kbrecordzz/kbz.se went, i want it to be proffessional. maybe this page isn't the perfect place for this, partly because no one (?) knows it exists... but it's the only place i can sustainably update regularly without growing tired of it. and that's the main prerequisite for doing this thing at all.

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