#dev's fave things 2024

[penvisions]

oh boy, okay. y'all, this year has been something. but i stuck with creating through it all. very much a copping mechanism and the lovely @sawymredfox tagged me in this positive lil exercise. i don't toot my own horn too much, but the following things are something i'm really proud of creating this year and have poured little parts of who i am into ♡

written word:

gone to the dogs {boston qz! joel miller x smuggling ring leader! reader}

by the grit of sandpaper {jackson! joel x patrol partner! reader}

services requested {older! joel miller x sugar momma! reader} not currently posted but is in the process of being written and edited

by the firelight {rodeo! jack daniels x ranch hand! reader}

there's a place and time {neighbor! joel miller x reader}

one fish two fish {frankie morales x recovering addict! reader} but specifically the first chapter that was written for the lovely @guiltyasdave and one of her challenges

graphics:

instagram feeds for {garnish - chef! joel miller x bartender! reader}

moodboard made for the effervescent @morning-star-joy and her ashwah series

good moments:

moodboard gift for {of beskar and kyber} aka my beloved din djarin series that @sawymredfox was such a dear to make

the two pieces of art that i commissioned here and here from the talented and sweet @kenobiwanx

there are so many more good moments but it's honestly overwhelming, the amount of love and feeling of finding a good space here this year was insane and i will be forever grateful ♡

-> reference of og post and the masterlist created by the lovely @jolapeno

[hummingbird-games]

Dev Diaries

December 28th, 2024

And just like that, I'm writing and posting the very last devlog of the year! I wasn't sure what 2024 would bring, and yeah I did get sucker punched more than once, but I also had some nice and welcomed surprises.

So! What now?

HSD:JY 2

...I'm not playing. I really need a devlog dedicated to solely High School Daze stuff. 🤡 Just need to decide what's not spoilery and what's not (too) ranty.

KO-FI RESUMES! AGAIN!!

Given that I wasn't producing anything of note, free or worthy of money, I paused billing again LOL! Fun stuff going up again in the new year! 2025 will be me figuring out how to continue to be consistent *and* decide what kind of content I want to post there versus elsewhere.

LOVED VN

T'was not meant for this game to release this year buuuuut I'm really hype for Summer 2025 now! #LovedVN is a summer tale, and I find myself thinking about these characters a lot. Depending on where I am, you might get a sneak preview during the Amare Fest, but I promise I'm making this project worth the wait for all of us.

OH, BOY

Yeah, no, I really wrote this game for me AND IT WILL SHOW BUT I DON'T CAREEEEEEE!!

My teammates for this project are amazing??? Absolutely fantastic humans??? The best of the best???? And they too are in love with this story (and the main characters) as much as I am??

"Gemini, you keep talking about this game like we know what you're talking about." Okay. Fair. Oops.

Oh, Boy is a bite sized, romance flavored game with multiple endings about college sophomore Janella who's Going Through Things™️ with her friends and decides to go to a concert on campus. There, she sees the guy she loves to hate (...or is it hates to lo-- *BANG*) Kendrick, and you, dear player, determine how the night ends!

(BTW it's SFW game so like...yeah. But! There will be bonus content shaped something of the 18+ variety so stay tuned if you're freaky like that???? 🤣)

Aaaaaand there will be partial voice acting!!! I casted both roles and my GOD they are Janella and Kendrick??????? It's insane how much giggling I've done going over the script and realizing their voices will be saying the lines. Like......this is probably my fave project idea to date because of the trope involved (bickering to lovers, yes that's totally a legit trope, leave me beeeeee.)

Mmmm what else can I share with y'all...

The new tunes!!!! Have a sneak peek of one of them:

I want to get permission from my artists to share art tingz first, so maybe that'll be a next month task! (Janella is so cute and Kendrick is definitely the star of homegirl's dreams! Also we're getting CGs which is SO!! EXCITING!!)

A fun development fact: when testing this game before I rejoiced that I'd have a designated programmer, I wanted to ensure all the endings were achievable. But I had to make a whole ass GUIDE because I kept getting the same two endings 🤡 I'm still in awe at how much I struggled.

ENDING NOTE

I have no idea the posting order of things, so if my yearly game review post is live, check that out! If not, I have 3 more days left in the month to post it!

Thank y'all so, so much for another year of sillies and games and blogging and creation. 💛 Hummingbird Games turned 4 this year and I'm a little sad that I can't call myself a toddler dev anymore. I'm a whole kid now, and ehhhh, "kid dev" just doesn't sound all that good to me 🤣

I'll workshop it!

Happy New Year from yours truly,

Gemini 😊

[xxmissarichanxx]

✨XMACX Monthly✨September 2024

September is here! I always think of this month as my sister’s month because she was born in September lol. Anyway, I was lowkey happy Beau won the character poll because it means I get to dedicate September’s cover art to my sister’s fave color: yellow. Happy Birth Month, lil bro~ Big Love!

You can read the update on XXMISSARICHANXX.com or under the cut below!

What’s Happening in September?

Well, the poll this month will be a little different. Usually, we vote on who next month’s cover model will be. This month, however, I was thinking — since the whole month of October is basically Halloween and peeps dress up — we could vote for Kaimana’s Halloween costume this year? Last year I put ‘em in an ATSV Spider-Man 2099 costume, hehehe. This year, IT’S UP TO YOU! It’ll be fun. It’ll be GREAT. To the left are the options, all tsunderes because I’m so weak for tsunderes and I consider Kai to be one as well lol. Poll drops this Friday, September 6.

A) MCU Wolverine (zaddy u///u) B) Vegeta (my prince u///u) C) Bakugou (my hero u///u) D) Asuka (my queen u///u)

Other than that, I’ll be continuing to stitch Froot Basket White together and draw Ippon! pages. I’m hoping to finish adding all the voiced lines so I can work on drawing/cleaning stuff up in the coming months! You can read about my progress below!

VN Dev | Froot Basket White

I now have all the voiced lines for Sutoro and Azrael! I’ve been inputting them into the current build. Check out a preview of Sutoro’s voiced lines!

I also received some track samples from our composer! I can’t show you right now, but, trust me. It’s a banger and a chill cafe bop for sure! The composer I’m working with went to town on it! I’m so happy with how it’s turning out! It’s got lyrics and vocals too!

I adjusted one of Sutoro’s poses because the anatomy seemed off. BUT! I also wanted to add more poses to make Sutoro a little more lively to match Jesse’s performance. Here’s some of those new sprites I’m working on!

Comic Creation | Ippon!

I haven’t talked about Ippon! in a while, mostly because I haven’t been spending a lot of time on it. I… went back and adjusted some previous panels, and I keep going back and forth between adding more pages to adjust the pace or not…

One of the things I changed, for example, are the shape of the panels on page 4 (above). I noticed as I was drawing that I tend to have a lot of dynamic panels. There were so many, that I thought it became hard to read or even look at the pages… It bummed me out a bit, so I had to stop drawing for a bit lol.

Another thing I learned: having to really think about how two pages sit next to each other. I saw online somewhere that comic artists plan out their page turns. That’s something I’d like to keep in mind too.

Other than that, I’m trying to learn to pace myself better. Some pages take longer to complete than others. For me right now, this action page (above) is taking a lot out of me. I expected it would because I’m trying to figure out where everything is situated — the anatomy, whether or not the action makes sense, etc.

I was thinking about adding the name of the move somewhere, kinda like how in shounen action series characters name their moves and whatnot or have it written out on the page or something. But I’m not too sure exactly how I’m going to go about doing that…

Cover Story | Meet Beau!

Sweet, energetic, loving Beau. In the Froot Basket series, he’s the player character Jordan’s childhood friend and neighbor! They played basketball together in baby days and continued hanging out and growing together in high school! Beau loves eating, gaming, reading comics, and playing basketball with his pals! He also has a big crush on Jordan and a big dislike of bananas — they’re mushy!

Along with Sutoro, Beau was one of the first characters I doodled when I came up with this lil series. He and Sutoro were best friends. He was meant to be a sorta delinquent character, hence the piercings and dyed undercut hairstyle. But as I developed him more and more, he just seemed like a sweetheart through and through.

I tried to include a bunch of yellow things in the background and in the illustration’s design. I’m hoping it displays Beau’s fun-loving personality! A few Easter Eggs: Beau’s playing Froot Basket Valentine on his handheld console and Froot Basket: Dark Chocolate on his desktop.

Other News…

Momotarou Post-Mortem

Momotarou was the micro-visual novel I impulsively made in July for O2A2 Jam. I managed to write the post-mortem for it late last month! If you’re interested in my thought process for the project’s creation, read it here!

I can’t believe it’s already been 50 days since I released the micro-visual novel! Time flies… A few peeps have play-throughs that I’ve very much enjoyed! Thank you so much for playing! I also received some really great feedback and observed some peeps getting confused. I’ll be updating the game with a few sentences referring to Froot Basket Valentine, the game whose events immediately precede the events of Momotarou.

Thank you again to everyone who played, commented, and left reviews! I really appreciate it!

Kaimana Zine

I released a Kaimana Zine filled with sketches and illustrations of Kai between 2019 and 2024! It’s 5 USD or pay-what-you-want and you can find it both here in my shop or on Itch! It contains explicit images not meant for minors, so please be responsible.

Next Month?

I will be in Japan the second half of October! I’m excited and can’t wait to have a bunch of fun and eat a lot of food! I’m planning to wear pink every day! I hope I’ll remember to take OOTD pics instead of just food pics… I’ll try to have the cover art for November done before I leave, but whatever will be will be.

Anyway, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s instead have a relaxing September!

Aloha nui, xxAri

[smallboyonherbike]

18 and 4 for the end of year asks :)

ty ty!!

18 - memorable meal this year

i'm sure there's so many good meals i'm forgetting but the first i'm thinking of is i made my mom's recipe for gazpacho twice this summer and it was sooo yummy!! and as a single person lasted me several meals. i don't cook all that much but def have a goal to make more of my mom's recipes bc nostalgia

4 - movie of the year

famously i am terrible at sitting to watch a movie by myself unless it's a hallmark movie i can half pay attention to. however i DID see some flicks this year and oh look i made a list for the first time this year so i can actually remember!

my faves of 2024 releases -

-challengers (they were all so in love and so stupid and tragic about it <3)

-wicked (i was waiting for this movie since i was literally 10 years old and god it was worth the wait i won't hear anything negative)

-the fall guy (that shit was fun as hell i LOOOOVE stunts)

-monkey man (saw this alone in theaters playing hooky from work after a drs appt and dear god what a film. so thrilling so intense dev patel is an icon)

and extra shout out to poor things from 2023 that i watched this year. and also my x-men rewatch from x-men 1 to apocalypse, idc that those movies are bad i love them <3

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✨XMACX Monthly✨October 2024

Happy October!!! A younger me would’ve told you Christmas was my favorite holiday of the year, but I’ve come to enjoy Halloween and October. Dressing up and eating candy is still as much fun as it was when I was a lil girl.

You can read the update on XXMISSARICHANXX.com or under the cut below!

Anyway, the update this time around is short since not much happened in terms of project progress last month.

What’s Happening in October?

Nothing too exciting project-wise. I decided to be real with myself, so I’m taking a small break from drawing and dev work to plan our wedding and prep for a lifting competition. Once those things are out of the way, I’ll fall back to old habits (lol…).

In the second half of October, I’ll be on vacation! I was told to spend more quality time with my fiancee and to enjoy our wedding planning process more, so I’m taking full advantage LOL.

As for the upcoming cover art, here are some potential cover models! Poll drops Friday, October 4, on Instagram Stories and Twitter/X Polls!

A) Kou, an ex-gangster who now owns a bar B) Noel, a shy were-lion C) Mochi, a bratty Pomeranian D) Monty, a stoic Siberian Husky

To me, November screams “Thanksgiving” and “Fall/Autumn”, so here are some themes I’m considering for November’s cover…

A) Feast: a spread of the cover model’s fave foods. B) Pumpkin Spice: the cover model in desert, but make it pumpkin and make it spicy… hehe… C) Specifically if Mochi wins, brat outfit lmao. But I guess “brat” fits Kou too…

VN Dev | Froot Basket White

I didn’t give myself much opportunities to work on my projects last month. I just felt overwhelmed with work and a bunch of other projects and life stuff. When I did have time to sit at my desk to draw, I chipped away at some of those new Sutoro sprites! Here’s a lil peep!

Other than that, I’ve been figuring out some fun compositions for the CGs in Sutoro’s route. I can’t seem to settle on anything, though, so I’ll be spending this month trying to tackle it again.

The holiday season is coming up, so progress on project work will probably slow down drastically. I hope to at least finish drawing the new sprite art and coding it into the game this month so I can spend next month worrying more about the CG art and other extra art items and visuals.

Cover Story | Kaimana as Vegeta

I love love love Vegeta. I love his overwhelming confidence, his witty comebacks, his arrogance. Wow. Honestly, so hot. Plus he’s so cute when he gets flustered!!! When everyone cast their votes last month for the tsundere character Kai should cosplay, Vegeta won by a hair! I was so excited!!! I’ve been a long time DBZ fan and I don’t often draw DBZ fan art. Having the opportunity to draw Kai dressed as one of my fave character’s of all time was such a treat! I also mentioned wanting to draw someone cosplaying with Kai, but who that would be depended on the character that won. Of course, if I’m drawing Vegeta, I have to draw Goku! And who better to cosplay Goku with Kai than his best friend, Satoru! It honestly fits them so well. Satoru is so fun-loving and energetic, he plays off of Kai’s grumpiness well.

I went with Vegeta’s Namek Saga look because that’s the outfit I associate him with the most. I considered having them pose in their iconic battle poses, but I went with Galick Gun and Kamehameha because they fit together on a cover better. It looks so cool!!! Also it gives me an excuse to have fun with rays and beams of light!

Here’s the final illustration! I removed all the extra fun stuff for the actual cover because, otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to read all the words…

I considered doodling a lil Masa as Frieza in the background, but ended up leaving him out. That would be pretty funny tho… Maybe next time… xDD

Other News…

Not much honestly. Just vibing out here, picking up as many shifts as my body will allow me to make more money to fund my wedding vision lol and enjoying time with the boo thang. Actually, for the last six months I had enjoyed working at a single location, but now I’m back to traveling for work. It was easier before and I didn’t mind it as much, but now I just have to get used to it again??? Or just need to figure out how to make things work better for me again??? But no biggie. Gotta make my bread somehow, know what I mean? lol

If anyone’s interested in fitness or lifting at all, I’ve been training for a powerlifting competition! It’ll be my first meet, so I’m a lil nervous. I’ve been having a lot of fun though! I dunno, but carrying heavy things is just fun. Better than running LMAO (sorry, i dislike cardio so much…) Right now just been struggling to make weight… Is it stress? Is it my inability to stay away from ice cream? Or a bit of both? Maybe its my refusal to do cardio LOL.

Next Month?

The plan is to get wedding stuff out of the way so I can focus more of my creative energy on my projects again. Meaning, don’t expect much updates about project progress from me in November LOL. Just being real.

Peace. Love. Rock’n’roll. xxAri