Normal update, autumn XXV
Happy solstice, everyone.
I don't remember if I said that before but I say solstice/equinox instead of repeating the season cause I always forget about the southern hemisphere existing. But then, my season is still in the title so ig there's no point? I just realised, actually.
Oh well.
This time we're actually on time cause I wanted to get this done before my flight and stuff and actually scheduled this post so if this message stays here, it means I forgot to edit it out later and/or add new info. Assuming anything got done within like a week.
This is not significant progress by any means but my team decided to try releasing our extended and ported demo of Impostor Syndrome for Winter Jam.
I say not significant because the wordcount wouldn't change all that much, I don't think and the port relies entirely on me actually sitting on my ass and working. During crunch and christmas season, no less. So it's highly likely I won't get much done but hey, we're using a template so maybe?
Honestly, the biggest issue here is that I don't know shit about optimisation so if it doesn't work well on a potato, all of that is kinda pointless as we decided to move from renpy exactly cause ATL was too laggy.
I'll probably make a separate post if we do end up releasing something as I lowkey don't want to make this tumblr seem too dead, especially since I'm not interacting much in dev spaces these days but yeahhh...
Wish me luck and stuff.
Not much progress I can actually speak of among other projects, they're just marinating or something at this point but I wanna mention this anyway:
I went back to Wedding Crashers which is, like, a project I planned to make for Ossan Jam a year ago. I even had a team and everything but the script was shit and too happy for my mood so I had to delay it. I don't say scrap only cause the idea itself hasn't actually been abandoned.
I don't know if I'll join the jam again but I'll try to have some more written and then talk to my team. No idea how it's gonna go but yeah.
Meager progress is better than no progress?
As for all the other projects I was supposed to finish years ago?
Still nothing.
Though, besides me being lazy as usual, I actually lost all my custom SAI brushes and forgot where I put my backup so I'll probably just restore them when I'm back home next month.
Not that it works particularly well on linux anyway as Wine has some issues with, idk, copying to memory during emulation or whatever, I'm not a programmer. Buuut at least it no longer crashes/freezes when I'm working on my 8k compound mecha CGs for Void Hyperion so it's not actually all that bad. I love my extra ram. I'm literally using a gaming laptop to dev orz
I just felt like sharing this but I finally found what a specific hairstyle I kinda like was called - bouffant - which means I can finally make a game with people sporting hairstyles no one besides me seems to like on LIs, yaay :D Wait for all the bald and mullet ones, my babies.
I still can't draw, especially without refs, so I have a reason to watch all the old french movies that barely avoided being B&W by a few years. Nice.
Here's an example if you're curious.
I wasted so much time on a pic [lower right] Junji Ito would crank out in two minutes but that's life...
I'm actually considering making a game in a similar style which either means finding suitable brushes or just drawing everything on paper.
Honestly leaning more towards paper since I bought that light pad specifically for that like four years ago and used it five times or so. Gotta get my money's worth.
The only issue is my scanner smelling like it's burning whenever it's connected [which is why it generally isn't] but I'll figure something out.
I have some ideas that would work with this. They're gonna be so fun if I actually make them :D And would look way better than anything drawn digitally cause after 10 years I'm still ass at using a drawing tablet.
ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ʳᵉᵐᵉᵐᵇᵉʳ ʰᵒʷ ᵐᵃⁿʸ ˡᵉᵗᵗᵉʳˢ ᴵ ᵘˢᵉᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵗᵒ ᶜᵒᵖʸ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᵖᵃʳᵗ… ᴬⁿᵈ ʷʰʸ ᵈᵒᵉˢ <ˢᵘᵖ> ⁿᵒᵗ ʷᵒʳᵏ. ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᶦˢᵃᵖᵖᵒᶦⁿᵗ ᵐᵉ, ᵗᵘᵐᵇˡʳ.
Omega Jam did actually receive that late entry so we have 13 entries now, yay! Not much but I do close to no marketing so, like, pretty decent.
As usual, I'm sticking to one-off jams but I gave my blessing to someone to host the jam again so we might see it in a few months. I don't know when exactly is that going to be but I'm for sure gonna promote it using Omega-kun just to have an excuse to show him being all smug.
>Tfw you like your OC a bit too much more than usual.
Still no page but Underwater Jam is being worked on. This time I'm collaborating with a certain... someone [I actually forgot to ask how to credit them cause of different names on different sites and all that jazz...] so the page can look all nice! And pretty! And water! And stuff! Cause it's underwater.
Yes, that means you can have a lot of blahajs, or blåhajar, ig? Idk, I don't know swedish.
This is totally not me suggesting trans shark or T4T games.
Stay tuned!
I'm working on making a server for my jams. Not super far in cause life aaand preparring everything takes lots of work, especially when I'm not used to writing rules and stuff. But yeah. I think you'd be able to join it for Underwater Jam which is basically gonna be a test run. After that we'll see if I want to continue as I'm gonna be a terrible mod that doesn't bother to mod...
Oh, and I'll probably redesign this blog. I like the webpage like layout but it really is a pain in the ass to read on some screens... I like it, tho. So the new one probably will be similar.
I should also update my bio-cv-list-of-projects-whatever while I'm at it...
PS. If there's a bonus Kyle Hyde being not impressed below, drawn with basic brushes, that means I did edit the post before it got published as scheduled.
