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+title: "Finally releasing a thing I worked on for months without much fanfare"
+date: 2023-07-25T11:04:43+02:00
+---
+
+Back in 2020 I had _a lot_ of free time on my hands. I had been working hard on
+my master's thesis during that year's summer as well, which did also take a
+huge chunk of time. But apart from that, there weren't really many other
+opportunities outside of my own four walls to waste time on. So I'd also work
+on a small game project on the side. It was nothing special really. Just a 2D
+top down shooter. Add to that the fact that I enjoyed the details of engine
+programming a lot more than the actual game design portion, and you get a game
+that is fun, but nothing special. Nevertheless, the fact that there wasn't much
+else going on I grew quite fond of the game. Hell, I even imagined selling it
+for a teensy tiny price at some point. Looking back that was a little
+preposterous, but there you go :)
+
+So once things got a little more normal the game sat, unfinished as it was,
+waiting to be completed released one day. I think that day now came, because
+over the last year I'd fixed up the remaining issues and tied the whole thing
+together such that it has a coherent start and finish. With a cool bossfight
+and outro and everything.
+
+So I guess the moral of the story is that the project has now arrived in
+reality. Where it is just one of thousands of games like it, but this one is
+mine :) Oh. And also it is online at all, which is also an improvement to
+before where it was just a bunch of code, images and music on my harddrives.
+
+You can find the game on its dedicated project page:
+<a href="{{< ref "codo" >}}">{{< ref "codo" >}}</a>.
+Or on itch.io: https://klockenschooster.itch.io/codo