Sometimes i stumble upon some accounts with such incredible art. Like fr it's so stunning. I'll be scrolling randomly through the art gallery and suddenly I'll be struck by the most vibrant, well composed piece I've seen before. This site is beautiful ;0;

HEY!! after changing up some prices and getting myself ready to start, I'm opening COMMISSIONS!!! <3<3

Details here!!

https://www.newgrounds.com/collab/view/17033

You can check the art tab in my profile for references. I'll upload a commission ref sheet soon~

It'd help me a lot <3 I hope you're having a great day!

hey!

this is embarrassing, but i abandoned haxe. just felt like there wasn't a point in continuing to try and "learn" because i wasn't getting anywhere. i toyed around with cpp for a few days, and i think it's cool. it has its obstacles, and that's amazing; haxe allowed me to jump straight into gamedev without any prior knowledge, which was what made it tough, other than the lack of real tutorials and guides.

i think i'll start using ng a bit more. i dont really feel good showing myself in other platforms. i like being able to rant and write long posts. it gets ignored either way (which is good actually), but at least i can write more lolol.

no games or tests for a long time and it feels good. i feel more confident and chill and i'm not afraid of opening vscode anymore. programming is not a project anymore; it's just something i do in case i want to really do it. just occasionaly; apparently once a month.

in other news im trying to get creative. i'm trying to draw more and work more on ocs i like. not like i have a lot; but i've been trying to stop hyperfocusing on random characters and rather creating my own. feels good when i get to do it... and horrible when i don't. but welp. it's worth giving it a shot. i'll post some oc art just after this post :3 i also would love to make a commission ref sheet but i can't do that using other ppl's characters so i'll try my best to actually make my own.

other than that i'm feeling okayish. random summer days are awesome man. i hope we get 30°C more often. genuinely! i get to lie down on my living room floor. that's the good thing about living alone. nobody fucking bothers you whenever you want to lie down on your cold, beautiful living room floor.

so that's cool. peace!

Hey!

I've tried participating in HaxeJam2022. My third game jam.. The worst one, hehe.

I couldn't do anything. I just didn't do well. I couldn't manage my schedule and I kept waking up far too late... I definitely need more time.. Two weeks maybe? I should try timing myself sometime. Like a game jam where the only person participating is me. Without the pressure of disappointing others. Game jams are definitely NOT for me in the stage that I am right now and I definitely should wait before I try anything else. I just vowed to myself I'll never join a new one again. And I reaaaally hope I listen to myself!

I'll still try and get something out of the little project I had planned. Simply because I got help from two absolutely amazing NG artists and I don't want to disappoint them. It was dumb of me to think I could possibly assemble something worth that art in so little time. Or at all.

I think the idea is kind of neat. It's based on a Flash game I used to play; Penguin Diner. And has a mix of another game; I really don't remember its name. But had to do something with blenders too.

But I have deducted that game jams at such an early stage of my """"career"""" are a brainfuck and just mess with my confidence. And that I should never approach game jams again. Lowrez jam looks so interesting... What a shame I can't art lol.

Seeing fellow Haxe programmers make it to the jam and get something done, even if it's not the best, makes me happy. It must feel so good. Though, so many people give up. And I get why. They have busy lives, and a week is never enough.

If I ever got to host HaxeJam, I'd definitely change the time mark... Cough, Logo >_>

Vacations are gone and I go to work TOMORROW. NOOOOO. But I got to art so much this week. So I'll dump those in the art tab and disappear again. Probably for the better.

Now that we're here, any advice on how to make non-shitty looking floor tiles? Why does it look like chocolate?! <- I hate it.

The only thing that turned out okay in this damned project was... The fruit. The damn fruit! Look at it. I did well on that! The rest is ass. But the fruit looks fresh!

i think

I should really take some pixelart courses. Recommendations? :3

It's the crucial style for videogames. No heavy spritesheets, just tiny pixels assembled. I've tried my best before but I hate how it turned out. My dumass ideas deserve some good pixelart at least! I'll never start developing Colourblind without a decent pixelart first.

My first goal is to settle for a specific res. I can't use tile editors without that! I need a consistent size for each sprite. It suuucks but whatever... It's necessary.

But for now, I'll try to take my time and rather work on things I enjoy developing, such as components and libraries. I have to get accustomed to Haxelib too. Fuck.

Welp

Hey!

I've decided that I would start typing these small devlogs in here. After all, this account is my place to rant and be myself :) Plus, I got 2 mentions in the Haxe roundup. And one of them is...

LMAO

I want to change that! But... Lately my life has been quite messy. I don't go outside often, but this week has been one hell of a rush. It has left me with barely any time to work on my stuff, but honestly, that's good. I needed that break! Either way though, I still want to focus on Sushi Cats.

Asset madness

I'm going insane! I've decided that I would completely remake every visual aspect of the game. I'm very bad at pixelart, and until that changes...

Sushi Cats was never the type of game that goes well with some pixelart. Pixelart is for small, cozy games. Sushi Cats ain't about that. It has pretty big graphics, since there's very little in the screen. I've been working on a pause menu and new keybinds... Keybinds that completely broke the game!!

movement() is fucked

After an attempt to change the movement mechanics of the game (in order to actually have win/lose conditions, and gameplay), I messed up. :( I'm still solving that issue.

After that big overhaul (that originally had the goal of cleaning up the code), that eventually killed my game, I started thinking of changing my workflow. I have set myself some goals, but I think that I'm not paying attention to learning anymore, but rather speedrunning games. Sushi Cats has come pretty "far" for what it is. With far, I mean, in development. The game still resides in the middle of nowhere. But I think that I haven't been paying attention. Like I let myself just slowly learn along the way, using methods that I still don't get, and eventually breaking stuff without knowing why or how to fix it.

What now?

I think that I'm pausing the development of it for a bit. With a bit, I mean, until I can actually think critically and not resort to just asking for help at 4 AM in the server. I'm kinda about to complete the HF tutorial (no, I haven't done it yet! xD), which will definitely help me know what not to do while extending a FlxTypedGroup!

That's it for now, really. I kind of just wanted to give an actually decent rant that doesn't leave me like a moron during the round-ups lol (thank you, whoever makes them <3)

Good day!

Back to posting here. The last few months have been really busy; i barely had time to keep up with my insta and opening a twitter. However it was very worth it...

So what's up? Well, with the help of a truly wonderful person, I got into pixelart!

It has been reeeeeally amazing to experiment with this art style. It's very relaxing and useful (you'll see why!). I'm not the best, but i'm proud of this thing i made today.

Why was it so important to learn pixelart? Well, I present you the next excuse on why I haven't been active...

I started gamedev!! With a lot of help from the discord server, I have been learning Haxe. I have successfully created a few projects that, even though they weren't made public, they are there for proof of my improvement. They will not see this post, but I'd love to thank everyone in the Haxe community for being so kind and helpful! <) The truth behind my sudden obsession with pixelart is because classic stupid me decided that it would be good to make a retro-styled videogame without being able to do any retro-style art. Amazing plan! But either way I made it; and I'm pretty proud of it. Couldn't have made it without the support and love I got from everyone.

Talking about Haxe...

There's an upcoming game jam hosted by the man himself, logo4poop. It is centered around the Haxe lang... so come join if you're interested :) i made the logo though, ironically

Personally...

I am proud of these successes i've had lately. Life hasn't been so busy. Maybe because school's over, and i'm trapped in my house, so what now? But besides the boredom, I embrace this wave of calmness.

As well as I have been dedicating myself to my art, and I will post some after this newspost.

If you read thru all of this... Congrats, we are best friends now :)

Merry Christmas, everyone!

(edited because Logo changed the game jam link. damnit)

Hey there. Back on another news post that nobody cares about. This time it's about Fancy Pants and pretty mcuh nostalgia in general.

I just made an entry for the FPA Classic Pack art contest, and it drove me down a rabbit hole. One of those rabbit holes that make you go; dude, the good old days.

I remember being a kid and playing Fancy Pants all the time. I would get so frustrated whenever I lost lol. The map would make me very confused because I wanted to complete everything. Find every hidden door, beat every boss, complete every mission and trainin. Hell, I'd replay every level if I had to just to find a new trophy. And it made me angry when I lost because it was so difficult to find my way back to the challenges LMAO. It was good frustration, though. That one that just feeds you and makes you wanna keep tryin.

And I did! I played everything till World 4 (I think? Vague memories). I played the mobile version, too. I can't quite tell which world is which because bruh. But really I love all of them. From the empty-ish yet wonderful World 1 (and its remix) to the so awaited World 3 and maybe World 4 too. I don't think I played 4, though, as it's pretty recent (2017) and I got very distant from Flash games during that time. However, I still have good memories of all the games.

Bro it felt so good to simply get on my PC after school and play Flash games. Goddamn dude. I miss that shit. It just makes me remember how empty it feels to grow up.

But hey I still hold those memories very dearly and just minutes ago I revived them with a good drawing. Damn proud of that.

What makes you feel this way? This nostalgia, this passion. What inspires this fire in you?

So I'm working on a new banner because the current one sucks. (It's actually kinda sick but I wanna make one by myself)

I was feeling real nostalgic playing shit like Duck Life and then boom, creativity!

Of course this is a shitty sketch, but still. It just contains some of the characters from my favorite games (or references to them!)

These include:

• Henry Stickmin.
• Sugar Sugar (love that game with a passion)
• Pico's School
• Alien Hominid
• Sushi Cat
• Madness
• Fancy Pants (and Cutie Pants too)
• Sniper Assassin
• Orange stickman from Alan Becker (not a game but still amazing)
• Edd (Eddsworld)
• Dick Figures
• Fireboy and Watergirl
• Giggles (Happy Tree Friends)
• Duck Life
• Draw a Stickman
• Twin Shot (YOOOOO)
• A ticket from Papa's Pizzeria
• Bad Ice Cream from... Bad Ice Cream (woah.)
• Strawberry Clock (just for the sake of weird-ness).

And that's pretty much it! I'm seriously dumb as shit so i probably forgot a few chars, but this is fine.

Hope you like it!