Heyyo Everybuddy! September has been... a month. lots of ups and downs.
I got to visit family for my sister's wedding, which was fun. but it meant I got to take a week off from work, which kinda hurt financially. it wouldn't be the biggest issue in the world, but my roommate and housing situation also continued to be a small pain. nothing in serious disarray, but its a stressful note to end the month on. the wedding trip really is what the month surrounded, getting all my affairs in ord...
2023-10-01 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy! so my first full month of me making my primary living as an artist was a success. I made a few hundred dollars more than I spent on all my living expenses (a term that should not exist, but we live in capitalist hell, so here we are)
August was a good month overall. Hypnagogia hit its 1 year anniversary, and we finished Chapter 2 this month, so some big things happened there. I was gonna do like a big patreon post about it, but I forgot. oops. And
2023-09-01 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Combining the June and July Sketch dumps and progress update since I didn't get to June's due to being out on Vacation, and July being hit with a major curve-ball
So the biggest thing, right near the end of my vacation, I got a call from my Day Job telling me they would not be hiring me back when they said they would in August. this meant that I was now without a primary source of Income. And currently, I have decided to solve that by jumping into the deep end and attempting ...
2023-08-01 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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May has ended, and PRIDE MONTH is now upon us~
May itself was sadly not very productive, mostly due to a lot of my free time being consumed by a certain AAA open world video game that came out that I happened to acquire a free copy to. Yes, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has consumed my May. not helped by the fact that I am generally a soft completionist kinda gamer, and TOTK is positively bloated with content (way too much imo, especially with how much of it said content is reus...
2023-06-01 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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April has come and gone, and this kitty has had many deep thoughts
April was overall a fairly quite month, the MSPFA is still down, and I've felt fairly close to burn out this month. I'm not sure why, but I've felt fairly out of it in the back half of April, mostly keeping myself to the daily doodles and streams.
Hypnagogia has been quietly continuing, a fairly large backlog for when MSPFA comes back online. I think I might be on the cusp of another fairl...
2023-05-01 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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March has diligently marched to its conclusion, and here we are, the April fool's.
I've personally kind of been in a limbo state for the past week or so tbh. Hypnagogia's big update is finished, but the site i use MSPFA is still down, and will likely still be down for half of April, so i am just kind of twiddling my thumbs for a while. plus commissions are mostly caught up, so i've been kinda idle with no active long term projects atm.
While the embers of passion for MBaW! a...
2023-04-01 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy
Febuary, fittingly for the shortest month in the year, went by real fast.
amusingly, MSPFA the hosting site I use for Hypnagogia went down basically the entire month due to unforeseen tech issues and maintenance. ironically this coincided with a fairly high effort update to it I am working on. once I finish this current stretch of pages (like 5 more are left) and the site is back up and running, regularly made input based pages will get made again.
Als...
2023-03-01 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy
January was one of those months that felt both really really long, and like it went by like that. idk what that says about the quality of the month, but hey, its over.
I've been slowly recovering from the partial life implosion of last year, and kinda have my 2023 goals set out for me. I went over them a bit in the 2022 post-mortem, so I won't really repeat myself on that. But do know that I am recovering.
MBaW! is still paused, prolly will remain...
2023-02-01 20:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
With 2023 already underway, like last year I want to take a bit to look back at the year that was, as well as outline some goals for the year ahead.
2022 - The Year that Was
At the start of 2022, I set myself 2 Goals to accomplish over the year. unlike 2021, 2022 was a lot rougher of a year for me, So how did those go?
1. Make a Hypnagogia Prototype for Dream Diary Jam 2022 - I don't think this ended up happening at all. about...
2023-01-16 21:42:55 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy.
December was.... a month.
Honestly, after recovering from last months forced break from anything as my PC was down, i was looking forward to a fairly lowkey month as the holidays came and went, getting some moderate progress while also relaxing. and that's.... kinda what i got?
My personal life decided to partially implode this month, so I've mostly been dealing with that, being lowkey depressed. art is a decent motivation to channel those feelings, but som...
2023-01-01 20:20:07 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
This'll be a short and simple update, because very little progress on anything got made in November, all for the same reason: My PC Died!
yeah, turns out the graphics card or whatever just decided it couldn't bother to function anymore and died. had to send it in for repairs and everything. that took most of the month, not helped by the mailing process to get back to me getting constantly delayed at the final hurdle, all because whoever delivers to my area could ...
2022-12-03 03:10:36 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
Boy was October a crazy month. a really social month for me IRL. got to hang out with lots of friends in meatspace. Which is great obviously, but also ate into my art time (since this is still sadly my side gig, as much as i'd love to be able to do this full time).
to Start with, work on Hypnagogia continued, slowed a bit from last month, only getting to just under 240 pages total and 92 l...
2022-11-01 19:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo everybuddy
September was surprisingly packed, feeling very slow but in a good way for the most part.
Hypnagogia is continuing at a very steady pace, 180 pages at time of writing, with 69 likes on MSPFA (nice). we'll see how much this pace continues into october. I am really glad I started this webcomic. not only is it a story idea i've had kicking around in my head since 2014 or ...
2022-10-01 19:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
wow, august is at its end, and boy what a month it's been.
The biggest news, I started an semi-interactive webcomic Hypnagogia, which is kind of like if Silent Hill meet Homestuck. its got ~80 pages up right now, and i do recommend checking it out if you haven't already! warning of course, it is kinda dark at times.
beyond that, the weekly streams kinda didn't t...
2022-09-01 19:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
July is finally over (and with it this unbearable heat hopefully)
I've had my ups and downs with productivity this month.
to start with the obvious, basically no work happened on MBaW! this month. I could say I'm burnt out on it, but that's not true at all, I still have both a ton of passion for this story and these characters, its just the step i am currently on (editing episode one's content to fit the new engine/make sure it all sti...
2022-08-01 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Okay so June happened, boy did it happen.
the most immediate thing being that I got Covid while out visiting my family in the last week of june. that naturally killed basically any vacation plans, as well as any plans of doing a little extra work on basically anything as I lay in bed recovering. not much of a vacation obviously. I did end up extending my stay by a bit just so i could be nice and recovered (we drove back home from the trip which was itself a multi-day af...
2022-07-06 19:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
Okay so May is another month that... existed. honestly, now that its over with, I'm having a hard time recalling everything that happened in it XP
Commissions went smoothly, as did MBaW! progress, though its still not done.
I have/had a lot of plans for things I wanted to get done in June, but I am now wondering how viable all that is going to be:
- Obviously, I was hoping to finish MBaW! episode 1 this month, which is... kinda up in the air if th...
2022-06-01 19:04:19 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
Wow, April.... happened. It was... kinda a hectic month for me life event wise. a lot of annoying stressors popping up. My computer started having problems, I had an annoying health concern i needed to go to the doctors about. I fell back down into a Homestuck Rabbit hole, which is obviously the worst thing there is XP
Between all that, continuing to do commissions I keep getting from many generous people, and trying to just de-stress,...
2022-05-01 19:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
Another fairly quite/simple update for March. the MBaW! refactor is done, at least on a technical level, so next step is slowly porting the old content into the new system fully, editing it as where needed. Not sure how long that's going to take, it could go really quickly, it could become a huge slog, We'll see.
the plan is to have Episode 1: Domestic Bliss completely done by June at the latest.
beyond that, I've mostly been trying to clea...
2022-04-01 19:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy
So February is the shortest month, so lets have a short update!
the MBaW! refactor is progressing nicely. it is almost complete on the technical side of things, with only 2 technical system issues left before it just becomes about porting the content/editing the story scripts to just be in the game. if things progress nicely It should be done by March's end, but of course we'll see.
You also may have noticed the Valentine speedpaint video didn't c...
2022-03-01 20:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hewwo Everybuddy!
a fairly quickly update for y'all.
MBaW! refactoring and porting over to NaniNovel is underway.Currently, I am learning the new layout, and refactoring elements to fit it/modify it to work with our story, etc etc. nothing super special to share atm.
My time has also been eating up by the Valentine's speedpaint video i had planned. all the drawing are already done with plenty of time to spare, but the script for the video isn't done yet and is currently givi...
2022-02-01 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
It's been a hot minute. I just wanted to take a minute, look back at the year I just had, some general thoughts on it, as well as my thoughts for what I want to get done in the year ahead.
The Patreon - some updates
My Patreon has grown quite a fair amount in just a year. from just under $20 at the start of 2021, to just under $100 by its end. That is nearly a 5 times increase in funding for what i do! I cannot being to thank you guys so much for t...
2022-01-11 20:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy.
As you can see, i had a very colorful December. X3
In fact, with this post, i truly did finish the last of my self imposed goals of 2021: I made a digital drawing every day this year! Are there any that were your favorite? tell me, as i can always take these doodles and make more proper art pieces outta them!
As for work on My Boyfriend's a Werecat!, as usual i made some good progress, but not as much as i would like. all the CGs for Sce...
2022-01-01 20:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
Did November go by fast for anyone else? it did for me.
I made some solid progress on MBaw! scene 10b. halfway thru it, at least. the biggest time sink has been the amount of custom art it has. like scene 10a, it has quite a few. but again, i'd say more than half of em got done. it looks like i might actually meet my new years deadline.
speaking of new years and deadlines, i set myself a handful of goals for new years this year, and this month, i...
2021-12-01 20:01:04 +0000 UTC
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so uh, I made a speedpaint!
its a little experiment to see if i could and if it was any good/any fun.
I definitely could and it was definitely fun. but do you all thing its good at all? or as good as a first try to this sorta thing can be?
oh uh, and here is the end product for everybuddy to enjoy!
Hope you all like this! Uh, happy early thanksgivings I guess!
2021-11-23 07:40:07 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
October was a very productive month for myself. lots a stuff done. To start with, Scene 10a of MBaW! is finally done being edited. Once it was done, i looked into comparing scene length, and Scene 10a might have been the longest individual scene in the game X/
Average scene length for MBaW seems to be ~300 lines of writing + code. Scene 10a was a few lines short of 1 thousand! 0_O
So yeah, no wonder that took so long. scene 10b unedited currently only...
2021-11-01 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
so, September went by real fast for me. did it go by fast for you? a lot of things happened, but i'm not sure what got done to show for it. uhhh... i got this CG done, and i do like how it turned out. so there's that at least.
kinda fitting that things come up that distract zack while he's supposed to be working, while things keep happening to get in the way o...
2021-10-01 19:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo everybuddy!
so unlike July, August felt like it went on forever! I started up my day job again, which sadly slowed my productivity greatly. Even worse, i get back to my day job and they mess my schedule up, and have it be messed up for most of the month, which greatly affects what free time i have to work on the game or art commissions, as well as just screwing with my sleep schedule cuz i now need to adjust that to match this work schedule they foisted upon me.
2021-09-01 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo everybuddy!
wow, July both went by real fast, and somehow lasted forever. MBaW! has had some QoL updates put in and down the pipeline. The menu's for the gallery and scene map has been overhauled to be a bit more intuitive and look nicer to boot. the bugs and such surrounding the backgrounds is currently in the works. we also figured out why despite Zasdf working on the music and SFX more it wasn't translating to the builds i was making, so the next build should have le...
2021-08-01 20:59:53 +0000 UTC
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Heyyo Everybuddy!
As mentioned last month, june was a break month for development for MBaW! to focus on a little game jam for another game idea i have, Hypnagogia, which at the end i was going to post it on Itch.io
unfortunately, 2 things game up which threw 2 massive monkey wrenches in that plan. first, was having to move apartments in fairly short notices, which consumed pretty much the entire end of the month. and 2nd was those hi-fidelity walk-cycle animations...
2021-07-01 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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