Time for yet another development update.

Two thirds of the way done!

Alright so to start off world 2 is finished complitely. Levels, boss and cutscenes are all finished and done for world 2. Even @GGishere 's voicelines are done. Everything that happens after world 2 is also done. Now I only have world 3 aka the final world to make (5 levels, boss and cutscenes). There is some smaller things to be made like saving and maybe possibly Newgrounds medals if I can figure those out but I'm not promising them.

Now other smaller but important things.

Every levels code and sprites have been optimized a lot more so there should be as little for the game to load per each scene which should make the game run as smoothly as possible. Now something cool I made is a custom loading screen that should appear everytime the game needs to load a lot of stuff. So at the start of the game and when going to different worlds.

Picture of the loading screen. The Blazer at the bottom is spinning btw.

Progress in the future hopefully speeds up a little since I'm done with a big 10 week long college thing and I possibly have more freetime. I'm done with my website for now so that also won't take time away from me.

https://aapiarts.neocities.org/

Yup. On top of making a game I decided to take a shot at making a website for myself. I used what I learned in college to my advantage. It's far from done but it's good enough to be shared. I'm planning on adding way more pictures to it and overall making it look a lot nicer and more advanced.

Basically it's a replacement for my Linktree. A website is way more customizable to make it look how I would like but the cost is that it takes longer to make and I need to learn how to use HTML and CSS better.

I miss the old Layla , straight from the 'Go Layla

Chop up the soul Layla , set on her goals Layla 

I hate the new Layla , the bad mood Layla 

The always rude Layla , spaz in the news Layla 

I miss the sweet Layla , chop up the beats Layla 

I gotta to say at that time I'd like to meet Layla 

See I invented Layla , it wasn't any Layla 

And now I look and look around and there's so many Layla 

I used to love Layla , I used to love Layla 

I even had the Blue hoodie, I thought I was Layla 

What if Layla made some art about Layla 

Called "I Miss The Old Layla , " man that would be so Layla 

That's all it was Layla , we still love Layla 

And I love you like Layla loves Layla

I made a Rivals Of Aether Stage called Piracy Is A Crime.

Here is a trailer for it. Go play it if you play Rivals Of Aether

Steam Workshop link

Made it for Pixel Day so here is also the post.

It is that time again.

Big thing. All five of world two's normal levels are finished. It has new enemies, new game mechanics, new sprites, new music and new sound effects and all of those are done. Once again @wobwobrob made great music to it and @GGishere made some new voice lines which some I still need to implement. I have not yet made a playtest version because there are a few issues that I need to fix first so I'm not 100% sure how fair the new levels are but I can alway go back and edit them. Useless feature that I added is taunting. Just wanted to add it for the fun of it.

The game has been optimized a good bit too and tested if it works on Newgrounds and of course it does. At first I had a problem where the audio didn't work at all but it was just me being dumb and forgetting to clean some old code that was causing the audio to not work.

@Nebulate has helped me with a few character designs so he is part of the team of people who are willing to help me now too. Special thanks to @Prismisho for teaching me how to use bit crusher effect on Audacity.

Here is a peek at the new gimmicks and level style and what not.

The gif but with sound on Instagram

2023 is over now and 2024 has started. Time to remember what I did last year.

First of all

PAINTER BLAZER

The biggest thing last year was working on Painter Blaze. February 19th was the day that I first posted about making a game and soon I learned how to use GDevelop and since that I've been working on Painter Blazer. It is so far my biggest project I have ever done and introduced me to game developement which I find very interesting. Most of my big projects before have fell flat and I lost interest to them in a week but somehow this one I have been able to keep my interest for almost a year. Big thanks to these people who have been willing to help me with the game. @wobwobrob for making all of the music because I can't do that at all, @GGishere for being the voice of Blazer, @Nebulate for helping with a few character designs and coming up with some new ones, Sail for playtesting the game and lastly Poly for also playtesting the game.

A comparision of the first public image and current state of the game.

Very first working prototype of Painter Blazer.

Current look at world 2. Yes I'll explain what is going on in an upcoming developement update.

Now for the none game dev stuff and to the less nerdy stuff.

ART PORTAL

I posted 23 finished artworks to the art portal in 2023 what a coincidence. 19 digital arts, one traditional art, two pixel arts which both were for 1-bit artapalooza collabs and one other.

Biggest art post was definitely the custom Lily Funko Pop. It was nice to give my sculpting skills a go again and I'm really happy with the end result. I had done sculpting a good amount a long time ago when I was younger.

My favorite digital artwork was Crazy Frog fangirl it was fun to try to make the background detailed but not overly detailed and hard to look at.

MOVIE PORTAL

I made my first movie portal post this year which was the Painter Blazer reveal trailer. Was fun trying to make a colored animation for the trailer and in general I find making trailers enjoyable. I should edit more videos to be honest.

OTHER STUFF

I joined @GGishere 's Newgrounder's Realm Discord server and met some cool people such as @Nebulate , @BroSkullEmoji , @Prismisho and @PachkaNG . Some cool people indeed.

My fan count went from like 80 fans to 148 fans in 2023 which is pretty cool and I ended up getting to level 25. I've been improving a bunch at what I do which I'm happy about.

That's all from 2023. Let's see what this year will bring up.

New profile picture after a year and now it's exclusive to Newgrounds. Banner is a compilation of the fanarts that I have gotten here. I'll be updating the banner every time someone draws any of my characters. One character per user though just to keep it fair.

That's all for now.

(Painter Blazer dev update coming soon btw)

So it's been almost two months since I posted the last development update.

First of all

THE GAME WORKS IN NEWGROUNDS!

For context a day or two ago I exported and uploaded the newest version of Painter Blazer to Newgrounds to see if it works. Since the older builds worked no problem I thought the newest would work too (those builds had a menu and three levels while this new build has the 98% finished world 1). I uploaded it here and the only things that happened were a white screen, the number 0 on it and the music playing. Nothing else happened. I was ready to scrap the Newgrounds version and uploade it to GameJolt or Ithc.io because I had no idea why it didn't work here but worked everyhwhere else that I tried. Now today I re-exported and reuploaded the build and god damn it it actually works here and it makes me unbelievably happy.

Now that I got that out of the way here are some actual updates. World 1 and the boss are finished. First cutscene is done too. @wobwobrob had made a new song for it too and @GGishere did a couple new voice lines for it. Only missing the end cutscene when it comes to world 1. Tutorial section is also done (I think). It's not big or anything but it's good to have. I have already started to make concepts for world 2 rather than keeping the ideas in my head. For world 3 I do have a theme in mind.

Concepts for two enemies that will be in world 2. You can probably guess the world theme from this.

Got a random urge to draw in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid style and then this happened.

Getting back to the speed of things again. Progress is going pretty smoothly currently. Working on new section of the game that is not world 2. I have ideas and themes for world 2 already too. Here is a peak at what I'm currently working on but not telling what it is.

Side note. I'm very happy about the reception of the reveal trailer so thank you all a ton!