I have recently invested way too much time into trying to produce the most engaging, UX heavy writing environment - not to be confused with a text editing program. There are a million bajillion text editors but maybe 4 writing programs. If that.

And that's what this is and how it's different. Escapade is for aspiring writers that are struggling to get their first draft complete. 'Write Now, edit later' - at least; that's been the focus of the program thus far. It's going to be continued getting updated until it has all the tools all the other programs are lapsing in. I haven't got spellcheck yet tho. I've been putting it off because it's going to take ages to type out the whole dictionary.

I've pulled an all nighter tidying up the last batch of updates and getting it out, and if you've got the inclination I'd love it if you checked it out. (I can do heavy discounts if you're cool) and by check it out I mean consider buying it as I'm only just about to start getting into the actual promotional stuff now and I haven't made a video of it in action yet. Guess you'll just have to trust me that it's really cool.

I've just added a personal highscore board so users can compete against their own personal bests. Soon I'll be adding sprints, daily streak counters, screenplay writing mode and word generators. It's gonna pop off. Most of the hard work has gone into making modular systems behind the scenes so that the program almost entirely builds itself from its folder structure, and anything but the core system can be removed without so much as a ripple. This will result in the rate of new features increasing rapidly for the next bit as the systems are ironed out and ready to prove me wrong and crash a million times because I put a forward slash in a path string somewhere by mistake. But I'll work through those million crashes to bring the sturdiest piece of software out the other side so help me.

I haven't had the luxury to polish this as much as I have, but here we are six months into the year already and it's pretty much the only thing I've done this year. Eesh. invested all my 2022 eggs into making what could easily be perceived as the most common and simple type of software available. Fortunately I am blessed with a kind of faith in the end vision - in knowing that if the current products fall short of my needs; I know it must be the same for others. Niche as it may be. I will find them. and I will charge them somewhere between $12.50 to $25 for a writing program in 2022 because it's boutique and I'm baroque. once the screenplay mode lands that price tag's going to look pretty good, and if you think screenplay writing software is going to be staying at that price

Anyway that's pretty much me and all I've been doing for the past few months - how are you? What've you been up to? I'm sad I missed out on contributing to Pico day as I had a whole thing planned but alas Escapade took priority. Hopefully next year.

I must retire to my chambers now and see to the back of my eyelids. Thanks for your time. Especially Tom because I know you'll end up lurking past here - It's a front page post. Hey tom

returning to animation properly for the first time in years, I hit a lot of hurdles that hindered the completedness of my submission for the Friday Night Funkin’ jam. I make for a always wanting to be pushing my skills to their limits and into new realms, and while it had taken me away from animating for many years, it was all because I was honing the skills that were adjacent.

for this project I wanted to push myself to be better at rigging. I learned a lot, but the lack of focus in other areas of the animation shows. it was super rushed, and the rendering time was pushing my friendship with the ambiguous deadline. Would’ve probably gotten it in early if I hadn’t wasted so much time modelling mounts and animating all the speaking that I did, before pulling the process entirely due to my face rigging being mostly unworkable - thus the face masks.

there’s so many mistakes and glitches that I just did not have the time to address. Maybe if it’s received well, I could update it, but I’m expecting it to just be a little forgotten nugget that probably won’t warrant the time tidying it up. But I took away from this experience the knowledge that I am actually pretty capable at 3D animating, modelling and rigging. Confident enough that maybe I’ll be more inclined to make content for other people again soon.

pico day’s coming up, and I already have this rig...

I haven't been as active on Newgrounds lately. Life happens. Things occur. We grow. We learn. We lose time to our mistakes.

But I've been honing my skills all the same. The skills that Newgrounds gave the original impetus towards. My digital art, animating, music, writing and game making abilities have all drastically improved - enough that I feel I can come back onto the scene and make stuff that's worthwhile.

I just need to restore my financial backing. once the ball's rolling, I'll try and get a patreon going or something, but that's always a bit of a rough path to take. There'll be means. I'll make it work.

I miss making stuff for this platform, and I want to do it again.

So I'll try.

So, in the past, I've made some pretty substantial animations for newgrounds in a stupidly small amount of time.

I'm not saying they're good, on any level, but there is no denying they're defenitely pretty decent for the timeframe I had.

Number 6298 was made in 11 hours on a shitty bamboo tablet, in one sitting.

I'll Protect You was made in under 48 hours, and it's the most committed project I've ever uploaded to this account.

And now, I have two and a half weeks that I'm going to commit to getting something done for the open round of NATA.  I already know what I'm going to do, and it's very ambitious, so here's hoping I can get it done.

The draft storyboard already involves some pretty dynamic shots, though apparently it all happens a lot faster in that file than what it looks like when I'm playing it in flash, so it seems pretty hectic and fast at the moment, but give it time ;)

While I'm doing this, I'm also working on a book and launching a Non-Governing Organisation/Charity.  So yeah..

Caffeine addiction, here I come.

Subscribe or something stupid, and I might make more actual videos.

You poops.

I don't think the notification system works for me, as I haven't ever gotten any.

There's a chance it's because I've been.. a little too preoccupied with uni to really contribute much to Newgrounds. However, I'm learning a lot about animation.
Once I finish up my last few uni assignments for this semester, I will be completing 'All Around', an animation I've had floating around for a while. It's only short (about a minute), but it'll be good to post something again.

I'll time it with my next available front-page-post. So expect something in two weeks time.

So, after struggling with uni, work, volunteering, illness and procrastination, with... 6ish hours left in it, I've decided to throw in the towel.
I usually do well with the last minute, battle-to-the-finish-lines, however, there's still too much to do with this project, and, naturally, not enough time.

It was starting to look pretty good, too (see below).
Next year, maybe.

I can't compete with him :P

Anywayz, I obviously have a new animation out that you should watch.
It was for the movie jam, though it was a bit late. I got my wisdom teeth out when the thing was on, but the theme gave me a good idea.
So here you freaking have it.

It's no master piece, but I feel it turned out okay.

If you like it, you should subscribe.

So I'm 21 now. I don't even care.
But, what I'd really appreciate if you could watch this here vid I made yesterday.
It isn't that bad.

It's also my NG birthday. For some reason, I made my account on my actual birthday, 5 years ago today. So there's that as well...