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wahoo!! hey, it's me!!! the beginning of this post sounds fun but the rest is a lot less exciting!!!! Wa-hah!!!!!!!

IM JUST poppin up to say, HOO BOY it's been ages since my last update. and the unfortunate reason is... it's been ages since i've been able to work on zone sweet zone!!! or anything i can show publicly, basically!!!!

it's not canceled or anything though!! i'm not canceled. a lot's been...

on all hallow's ween, a post for you

hey everybody!!!
welcome tooOoOoo another "heres what ive been workin on this past month" post!!! it's been a busy month. the focus this time around has been on two systems: tapes and player customization!

ENTER A NEW ERA OF HOME ENTERTAPEMENT
tapes. you know em, you love em. open palm slammin one of those bad boys into the slot gets your day started off just SO right.
however, all your favorite tapes from the outside world... they don't work quite right here in the ...

hey what month is it

wELCOME BACK
so, first of all: ive been way too quiet these past few months and im really sorry!! my productivity sank into Nothing for a while and when i did get stuff done, i was so embarrassed by how little it felt like i'd worked that i didnt feel like it was worth posting about. it's a real easy hole to fall into. but!!! that's a bad way to run a patreon and a Great way to lose people's interest and faith. SO, IM HERE WITH, SOME STUFF!!!! im in a work&health upswing so there's...

Zone Sweet Zone: Progress Report 5/8-The Rest Of May

hEY EVERYBODY,

so! first and foremost: i completely forgot tcaf was this month!!! i drove this year, which meant four (!!) days on the road and two at the con, with a few days of Exhaustion tacked on the end. this wrecked my work rhythm and sleep schedule for a bit so i didn't get as much done as i expected, but things have smoothed out now. so: what DID i get done??? let's dig in

ALL'S STAIR IN LOVE AND, WAR, this isnt a good sentence,

stairs! yahoo!! ...

Zone Sweet Zone: Progress Report 5/2-5/8

hey!!! so, week one of zone sweet zone in the public eye has come to a close. it was also week one of me being able to pour a ton of time every day into working on it without stressing my poor head about how im gonna eat and pay bills!!! AND IT'S, PAID OFF TREMENDOUSLY, 

i've been tweeting about stuff as it gets done, but that stuff gets buried under retweets and shitposts pretty quickly. so, i'm gonna start doin' these lil progress reports every sunday to keep folks up to ...

May Stream Schedule!

alright!! SO!!! we, frickin crushed the "two streams a week" goal this month, so here's how it's gonna go down.

we'll be doin' two games this month: Blinx the Time Sweeper (drak solo) and Sonic Unleashed (drak & gigi play). i've never actually played either of these, so i'm pretty excited.

Blinx is going to be happening every Wednesday at 6pm pdt/9pm edt!!! hopefully this is a good time for most folks!

Sonic Unleashed&nbs...

i'm pleased to announce a fun sideproject i'm developing:

Zone Sweet Zone

!!

i have a lot of ideas for Zone Sweet Zone, but primarily it is a ~patron rewards program.~ i've had a patreon for a while now, but i've struggled to come up with incentives that are related to the work i do and don't take a ton of time. it's also been hard coming up with incentives that are rewarding on a month-to-month basis! i wanted to find something that's, like, a personal reward for each ...

Gee-Whizmo! Vs.

wow!!! here's that gimmick-based 1v1 game experiment i was talking about releasing at the beginning of the month. it ended up taking me a lot longer to get around to it thanks to some computer troubles and ~life stuff~ but it's here and i accidentally made new graphics and music for it sO THAT'S FUN

you can grab it here: http://imdrak.itch.io/gee-whizmo

yowza! AUGUST STREAMS

august ended up being a busy month for both work and play, so i only managed to squeeze two bloods from the august stone. aw jeesh. here they are though!

drak & gigi play: TRAUMA TEAM  (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1QNBQawA4

just drak plays: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (part FINAL)

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A BUNCH OF ARCHIVED STREAMS

yowza! i've posted a bunch of stuff to youtube that i keep forgetting to repost here. here's a list of recent arrivals in the ol' youtube pipes from the past month:

Kendo Rage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjglfD_7grk

Clockwork Knight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J467uGGyeM
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PATREON HOUSEKEEPING

hey there!!! so. i've been runnin this thing for a fair few months now, and i feel like i have a better idea of what works for me and what doesn't than when i started. so! i've changed up some of the goals/reward tiers a lil bit, in the interest of bein' up front with regard to what i can actually do while still focusing on development.

i started this with a lot of ideas like "OHHH ITD BE COOL TO OFFER COMMISSIONS AS A REWARD" and like "I WANNA WRITE A TON OF JOURNALS W/mY THOUGHTS ...

New Youtube Channel!!

hey!! i've started putting my archived streams on youtube, since they're a bit easier to watch there. feel free to check em out!! all patreon-funded streams are now up!

Archived Stream #8: Sonic 06 (Part 6)

part 6 of mine and gigi's sonic 06 playthrough, in which we explore our complicated feelings toward silver the hedgehog.

Archived Stream #7: Jet Set Radio Future

wowie!!! i played a few hours of jet set radio future, which i've never played before. i'd like finish this game up at some point!

Archived Stream #6: Sonic 06 (Part 5)

here's part 6 of mine & gigi's sonic 06 playthrough! in this one, we finish up Shadow's story.

Archived Streams #4 and #5: Sonic 06

oh god, i forgot to post these here me and gigi have been playing through the ~spectacularly bad~ sonic 06! i'm having a genuinely good time though, so don't worry about it bein' one of those complainy "OMG THIS IS SO BAD" festivals. i love this game. these two streams are split up into parts! here you go: Stream #4 - [Beginning of Sonic Story] http://www.hitbox.tv/video/492445 Part 1 2015-05-01 00:25:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Archived Stream #3: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile

A platforming classic!! THIS GAME'S REALLY GOOD, AND I'M REAL MESSED UP ABOUT IT. Watch me play through the whole thing... if you dare.

Archived Stream #2: Lester the Unlikely

My friend Gigi came along for the ride this time! We played through Lester the Unlikely for the SNES. for... for some reason. Click the link above to watch!

Weekly Stream 3-13-2015

Weekly stream's about to begin! This week it's Lester the Unlikely, and I've got my friend Gigi along!! c'mon in: hitbox.tv/drak

NEXT PROJECT: ITEM HAVER

HI WRECKBOY'S DONE, DONE AS HECK. and now I'm here to tell you about the next thing!!! it's a game called Item Haver! it's an exploration platformer where you're tasked with collecting all 60 of the world's enchanted treasures - "items," colloquially. of course, you don't stop at Having the items - you get to use em, too! Item Haver (that's their name) has three slots to equip stuff in: two Gear slots and one Arms slot. Gear is stuff worn on the body, and Arms are things held in the hands. ...

Archived Stream #1: Bubsy

i did my first patreon-funded stream tonight! it was Bubsy for the SNES, in preparation for the $450 goal, which we've... now passed... anyway, you can watch the archived video by clicking the link above, if you'd like! this week was scheduled oddly, but i'm gonna start doing these every friday evening! WATCH OUT FOR EM...

WRECKBOY

~IT IS DONE.~ my silly browser-based virtual pet, "wreckboy", is complete!!! TAKE A LOOK. Click that link!! Click that... title!!! I DON'T KNOW HOW PATREON DOES THESE THINGS. GO HERE: http://itisaneggpudding.com/wreckboy/ i'll be making a post about my next project very soon!! it's in the planning and early dev stages and i can't wait to share it with you all!!!

Finally got one of these things.

Am I doing this right? Not sure how much I'll use it. Guess we'll see. ... YOWZA!! hey there everybody!! i'm still kinda getting set up and figuring patreon out, so it'll be a little bit before everything's ironed out and available!! thanks so much to those joining me on this weird ride i'm about to try out!!!