#Update 1

[tellioari]

Sneak peek at the stuff coming in the first update of the dye mod!! The mod will be available incredibly soon.

We've been working hard for a year and 3 months to get a whole bunch of the content into the mod! We still plan on adding some things soon, join our discord server for more updates :>

[utmv-fg]

UTMV Fighting Game Progress Update #1 - 4.13.25

A ton tbh, but not a ton to show off.

Game development just takes a long time to get out from under the boring stuff, and I haven't had a lot of time to get through an extra long boring part. I've been very busy and very tired, but I'm still cramming in a couple hours to work on this whenever I can sit up at my computer and concentrate.

The other main reason it's taking a while is because I've realized the most effective way for me to learn Game Maker is to take some of the video tutorials out there and write them down into a searchable document, making notes on what each part does to make sure I understand.

And by that, I mean doing this--

--for 20 lessons worth of material. Maybe more.

Which isn't as impossible a task as it sounds. I think the repetition really is teaching me the steps and vocabulary I'll need to navigate programming on my own. Plus, this might be proof that I'm less likely to fall victim to programming fatigue.

I've already followed an actual video tutorial with Game Maker itself (I made an extremely sloppy platformer where Frisk goomba stomps a bunch of Ink clones), but that's not quite enough to etch anything lasting into the adhd putty that is my brain.

Once all the studying is done, I'll hopefully have enough building blocks and forum post tips to stumble my way through a proof of concept build. (And I have a pretty funny idea for cutting down on sprite drawing time, involving Muybridge plates.)

I know I haven't been doing as much of the cool and fun parts of game making like sprite art, UI design, story writing, and feature development. But to be honest, it just doesn't feel like the right thing to be focusing on until I can get basic game functionality off the ground. I've watched way too many projects collapse in my day because the sprinkles outweighed the cake.

HOWEVER! I accidentally let my instagram algorithm know that I like weird industrial/improvised/custom instrument music, and now I'm swimming in it. You can check that out in the MUSIC REF/INSPO doc if you like.

Also here's the tutorial I was using if you, too, would like to lose your mind learning GMVL. It's a little outdated, but it's got some really helpful stuff in it.

Slyddar's Gamemaker DND Platformer Tutorial

I'm gonna keep the doc I'm using to study in a non-shared folder for now, only because I can't decide if it'll divert people away from his actual videos. It wouldn't be right, considering that I'd be lost without this dude in the first place. But maybe I'll change my mind. It could be more of a companion guide. I dunno.

Anyway, seeya later!

[trg-if]

End of June Update

Hi! I'm going to post updates every Monday from now on and when demo update is ready, expect it on Friday!

Chapter 2 is progressing... plus, I'm adding a couple of scenes to Chapter 1 that I mentioned in the demo, but they won't be added until vetted by the alpha testers. After that I'll do my best not to break your saves until Chapter 5.

The first part of Chapter 2 is finished, I'm just coding and I'll be shipping it to my alpha testers soon (love you).

So, overall - slow but steady progress.

See you next Monday.

[cheezandthementalillnesbuds]

COVER

(winn and gizmo cameo by josh!)

✦NEXT✦

[aoitakumi8148]

...𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂, 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓼 & 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓓𝓸𝓷’𝓽 𝓓𝓮𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓜𝓮 ~ 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓘 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘𝓼 𝓐 𝓛𝓲𝓮...

[frizzyanya]

Editing update:

So I'm editing my epistolary regency romance novel, and I have made at least 5 mins effort (but often more) every day this week. I'm proud of that!

I have re-outlined the first 23 chapters (52%) of the book. I have summarized the themes of the first 24 letters (in spreadsheet form).

All of this was in my original outline and notes, but I'm re-creating the outline for two reasons:

I want to make sure my outline has only what's actually in the book, not anything I skipped including from the book's original plans

I want to refamiliarize myself with not only the story's details but the timing.

It's been interesting to go through it on this level.

I'm catching inconsistencies that I didn't catch any of the last 13 times I read it. (In my defense I wrote 100,000 words in two months, there wasn't all that much re-reading going on.)

Beyond small grammar and name errors, I'm realizing that certain characters know things they shouldn't or vice versa. Also one plotline that could have been bigger got mostly dropped with just a small reference here or there, and that seems very out of character for several of the girls.

I noted that my visual descriptions of both characters and setting were lacking. I opened the book with the main family getting described, but I don't know that their friends ever were. Both FMC and MMC's houses have absolutely no descriptive language. I included it when they went new places and remarked on things, but not for what they saw as mundane.

Last thing: I started this process with plans to cut one entire arc (keep only what was necessary, but move it to a different setting) and several characters who appear only in that arc.

Well I got to it and I found that that setting has the most vivid setting descriptions and some of the most endearing interactions. So I can't cut it, I'll have to find something else.

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[avalenthevampire]

[robbycrop]

PG2

first | next

when i said this weekend ig i meant the next day

bro does NOT want to talk about it, trust shadow to do this just to get out of a conversation

sorry for the predictable plot 🤷‍♂️ im a simple man

[teaboot]

Behold

We have reached the “making little ceramic effigies of them” stage of Terminal Blorbo Velocity

[chaosfantasmic]

Oh kitten….we’re really in for it now…

[cheezandthementalillnesbuds]

PAGE 3

(colors by maximus!)

✦NEXT✦

◆BACK◆

✹START✹

[cryptocism]

what a wonder(ful) land(ing)!!

Page 2

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Learning to celebrate the little wins!

[frightfullytreeish]

maddie will head into work tomorrow and give josh a really significant look in the break room and tell him 'I snapped and asked buck if he's in love with eddie' and josh will gasp so loud and almost drop his coffee