A few days late to saying that, but again, this orchestra is hitting me hard. Also im currently sucked into working 30 hours a week, on top of online school. It's stressful, but at least I have a functioning sleep schedule. (it desperately wants to stop functioning again)
I found out about Undertale when I was 13, which is like the prime age for something to weld to a person for the rest of their life. For some its a hobby, or a band that was popular at the time. For me it was this game.
Part of the reason why this is taking so long to make is because when I had the idea for redo, I didn’t have a good clue as to what exactly makes a good game. Over these 5 years i’ve learned so much about game design, despite not actually having released any real game of my own yet. A lot of the time spent working on redo before this year was more like experimentation. Now that I know what i’m doing (somewhat), I can work on this for real. Once I have time to of course.
If you look back at the beginning of this tumblr, you will find that redo did start as another web comic type of thing. Again, i’m glad tumblr wasn’t letting me upload photos for some reason, because that put the idea for this alternate universe in the time-out corner to think about what it should be. As it currently stands, redo can work either as a game or a web comic. Although a web comic might be easier to just “get it out there,” I want to stick to turning this into a full fan game of Undertale for a few reasons.
For one thing, I can spend as long as I want fine-tuning every part of a game from end to end before releasing it for people to see. There were also a few times after looking back at what happened to Dreamer Reborn where I went and found a bunch of other fan games that were too convoluted to finish. To me it feels like I have make redo as a game to fulfill the lost echoes of projects that could have been, but fell apart from having a massive hubris to begin with.
And now, another update with game making. Progress over the summer has been less than I anticipated, and its mostly boring backend bullshit for the player code anyways, so i’ll spare the fine details. Movement is being finalized to a base version, animation is being experimented with, and a good solution for item/inventory management backend is being figured out. All the progress that is being made is solid looking too, since the github repo is encouraging us to not completely scrap stuff.
hey look at this crummy terrain generation I did for fun while you wait for something significant
Anyways, I want to finish this with one last thing. Occasionally, I grab the note cards i’ve drawn on and lay them all out together at the same time. the leftmost grouping is stuff I made in the early phase of redo. Stuff from about 2016-2017. All the cards on the right side I consider kosher with what I feel redo is right now. The notebook there is something I carry around sometimes, and i’ve put a lot of stuff in there like sketches and small bits of writing explaining the game. Not to mention, there’s the sketchbook that’s sitting there as well.
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and and and and and there’s another sketchbook I got that has a really nice surface on the paper that I enjoy sketching stuff on, so here’s the first page I filled up in it. The pages can barely fit in my scanner.
i had an immediate urge to make a meme out of this prime footage that mark supplied the world with. it was very late at night when i made this, and i realized i needed to add something to the video after i uploaded it already.
making this was a quick refresher about everything i included in the video for me. dreemurr reborn is an especially big one, since that’s the only au that i care about, and i REALLY miss it. it’s sad to see that the dude slowly got quieter and quieter for reasons that seemed somewhat out of his control.
mediocre art i made because of a video my phone auto-generated in january of 2019 that i decided to upload to youtube. turns out half of undertale’s ost is owned by everybody but toby fox
also i believe this is the first time i’m showing this character. i quickly added that mess of blue like 5 days later when i realized it should be somewhere in the drawing
its kinda funny how it literally took the world to end for redo to seriously start development.
over the past few days, me and a couple friends set up a github and are back at it again at unity engine, only this time, i have the knowledge to code for myself. if there happens to me more lulls where nobody but me can work on the game, i’ll be ready to keep going.
At the start of december, my hard drive decided to fuck itself in the butt and corrupt the main file partition, meaning I now have over an entire terabyte of data that I not only can’t access, but I can easily destroy by accident. I tried everything I could to fix it, but i think the hard drive is just simply dead at this point.
Fortunately not too much related to redo was lost. All the original fines for the digital drawings I did are gone, but I know most of them were posted somewhere if not here. As for the game’s files, we’ve been using cloud-based version control, so all that was lost was a couple cubes in a map. I still have so much personal stuff just stuck in limbo now and it fucking sucks because im like “oh hey i could do this” and then im like “wait no i cant” and then i go like “god fuck i will going to cry”
Anyways, i’ve been using a new hard drive since then. Shit sucks, christmas was fucked, school still blows, a new decade is upon us. Here’s some drawings.
PS: yes i’m still waiting on the input update for unity once that comes around i’ll get cracking and hopefully updates will pick up in pace
I’m doing Inktober over on my twitter. Most of it is just silly ms paint drawings, but there’s a couple days where i’ll decide to bother doing some real art.
Here’s day 11, the prompt was Snow. It’s vaguely related to the game.
Apologies about this hiatus, but fot the time being, we decided to not do any substantial work on Redo until Unity releases their improved input API. Once that happens, we’ll stick with that version of Unity for the rest of the project. We kept updating the version of Unity on our project, which turned out to hurt us more than it helped us.
Other than that, school slammed us and we have little free time to even do substantial work. I’m basically stuck to doing random sketches in my notes.
Expect more long waits between any posts, but in the meantime have this thing I still don’t know what to call.
I swear to god this is the last sketch of Sammy that I do for now. I’ve been neglecting literally any other character.
The past two drawings have put me in a sort of weird mood, alike some strange sadness, but it’s good to be drawing again. I’m feeling pretty confident to start a few new character designs.
Made this for a little art contest for a discord server i’m in. I feel like it captures who Sammy is pretty well.
First image is the finished piece, second image is the original sketch I used, which took about 2 days to figure out how to do that pose correctly.
I won that coin toss, and now both me and my good buddy pal friend buddy are able to do some work on Redo over the summer. I may not have the most free time during break, but i'm not the guy who’s doing the coding, so that’s negligibly less work for me.
By the way, have this doodle I did while I didn’t have my main pc as filler.
I guess I forgot about this page for a while, whoops.
Nothing at all has happened progress-wise with Redo, but summer is closing in soon which means we can do a good summer crunch before school rolls up again in fall. I want to be able to say that this is a gurantee that we can both work at the same time, but for me right now it’s a coin toss on wether or not I can do stuff over the summer. Hopefully my luck sticks around for the deciding moments.
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