#sorry for the lack of content lately i've been drawing my ocs a lot

[gingermaple]

do you like stars?

[cycleoffates]

Just found you here after searching Pumpkin Panic (again). You see, I found that demo back in 2014-2016 and I feel like it made a huge impact on what my art aesthetic preferences are because your artsyle is super colorful and the game really gave me candy and Halloween vibes! So once I a while I search official art you have posted about it. Whether you come back to making games or not I wanted to thank you for creating that demo and showing your spooky ocs. Hope you have a nice day!

hello!!! thank you so much for sending me this message. apologies if my response has been somewhat late, Tumblr's a place I hardly check and free time isn't something I have as much as I used to. 🥲 sorry if this is gonna be a long response too! i didn't intend it to be but I'm feeling somewhat sentimental.

even if i've pretty much been radio silent all over the place, this message has been something I've been constantly thinking about for a while. well, this one and a few that have been left on one of my videos. 🥹 (I'm posting them rq bc they bring me joy)

Pumpkin⭐Panic (yeah, with the star bc i found out there's another game called that now) has always been very near and dear to my heart. i made that demo when I was still a kid in high-school w/ a lot of ambitions. the idea for it was very impulsive, bc it started out as me making a gift for my followers on Halloween. i have no idea how I managed to create a demo for it in under a month (I have no clue how I was able to do it back then 💀).

talking about and posting OC stuff has always made me shy bc I wasn't sure how people would perceive it (or rather, my original, non-fandom creations), but it warms my heart to know it's been (and is still) loved by a lot of ppl who remember it to this day, even if it's very old. not to mention, it's very outdated, littered with bugs and was made on a (now defunct) laptop with a broken audio jack (hence why the audio is so loud (LOL)). making a game by yourself is harder than it looks!!!

it's been......... maybe 10+ years now? i think since it's initial creation. wow. typing that out makes me feel OLD. during all that, I put out another game demo and tried to write visual novels, but none of them were finished/saw the light, either. I'm somewhat ashamed of that too. i wanted to make more stories, but I just found myself lacking the time and the motivation (Tumblr was dying, I started working towards a college degree, you get the gist).

at that point, i stopped posting OC content as much (bc you know, social media engagement with fandoms and commissions gets you clicks!). i kept all those to myself (granted I didn't have a lot to begin with LOL) and only shared them with close friends. sometimes i'd post something on the bird-app, but it wasn't constant.

and then few years ago, a couple things happened to me (for the worse?). it opened my eyes and made me realize how impacted I (as a person) and my creations (as extensions of me) were by others who I shared personal connections with (through relating w/my characters). those things changed my life and made me anxious about talking about them again with others. i got scared. it was bad.

from then on, i shifted my gear towards making a lot of money as I could from commissions. flash forward to the beginning of last year, I had my "icarus-flew-too-close-to-the-sun" moment.................... yeah, burnout is NOT fun.

but at the same time, during those years of making bank and struggling, I was able to connect with someone again who made me love talking about my OCs again. i started roleplaying w/OCs again, I started writing and drawing OCs again. granted, they're not the same ones as before, but they're still my characters, and I want to share their stories with the world (someday). yeah okay, this is veering away from Pumpkin⭐Panic so i'm pulling the reins back on it again.

thank you again (from the bottom of my heart) for sending me this ask. this probably wasn't??? the answer you were expecting, but it made me feel something so HAVE AT IT. 🥹 I have attempted to create some semblances of art for a Pumpkin⭐Panic "reboot" but never got far, so it's most likely I won't be picking the game demo project back up. maybe I'll post them here if I remember to?

i've been thinking about giving the main game some closure at least. an artist I follow did something where when they decided to quit their webcomic, they posted the scripts/concept art/etc of said webcomic so fans can look at it. i think that's something I might try and do, if people are interested.

i also had plans for a prequel game (visual novel written conceptual draft)......... that? that's something I'm still thinking of doing one day, mostly because I have a new OC project now (not PP! related) that I want to bring to life but have no idea on the direction I want to go with. a friend told me that maybe trying to do an experimental visual novel with the prequel (of PP!) might help me get a feel for where I want to go for said new story. it doesn't have a proper name that I'm happy with, but............

i just think these goobers deserve that finished, at least.

thank you one again for your ask, sorry if it was sooooo long-winded, and i hope you have a wonderful day as well! <3

[tessathegamefreak]

My earliest memory of making any WIR content was when I was bored in textile class doodling on my notebook. It was a Sugar Rush inspired oc, she was based on cotton candy and bunnies (my fav animal), i distinctly remember drawing two cones (the things you hold cotton candy with) on her head to resemble bunny ears. And I think her name was something something cottontail, and she was KC's favorite because I said so. Man, those were the days… So I made another one >:D

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Her name is Jolly Delightning and she's based off of blue raspberry jolly ranchers. She was created to pay homage to the 1980s racers, tracksuit, helmet, the whole shabang. What made her stand out from the stereotypically racer was her self branded see through candy wrapper jacket with her signature name on the back.

As her name suggests she's a delightful person, despite her shortcomings. She's generally considered the runt of the litter and is not the person you would want to be beaten against due to her reputation of being a bad driver. It's not her fault, her car is just so fast that it's hard to comprehend what's happening 37% of the time. Even so she strives to be a good sport, even hesitating to chastise Vanelopy and instead chooses to ignore her.

Jolly is the biggest KC fan, whenever he appears he has her full attention. This unknowingly makes the king nervous because of his past, but the lill goober is easy to ignore so it's no big issue. He does however take notice of her lack of wins, and feeling pity or something he decides to give her some tips, but not too many.

Ever the eccentric, she tries to stay positive through thick and thin, but it would be a lie if I said that her constant losses didn't get to her. But KC helped out a lot with her confidence and driving skills, the whole interaction had her vibrating with joy.

A perenol headcanon of mine is that if the Turbo twins ever met her they would adopt her as their sudo little sister. They sorta take KC's place after he's revealed to be Turbo and help her come to terms that her hero wasn't so supper. Jolly had to learn “never meet your idols” the hard way.

Turbo twins: We've only known Jolly for a day and a half but if anything happens to her we will unplug every game in this arcade and then delete ourselves.

Jolly: :p

Also, ehh, something something, her car's name is Blue Zapberry, and that's all I've got.

Ah, I see! This is the fourth blue raspberry flavored Sugar Rush racer I have seen. I wonder what it is about that flavor specifically that is attractive for a Sugar Rush theme. Nice to see you also have an OC that is a terrible racer, hehe.

[sorry for the late reply. I have been rather inactive]