Last month fail?

I've been wwwaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy to busy with life to do anything creatively lately. Life got in the way of my goals for last month and I'm just now 'trying' to settle down. I'll be moving soon, and with the all the scrambling and last minute details I found myself more stress than not. Hopefully with the new move I can finally settle and get my mind focused because it's been way to long since I did anything creatively motivated.

I'm glad to see so many NaNoReno projects though. Lately, it seems like lemmasoft members have been producing more beautifully unique project then ever. Just looking at the screenshots gets me motivated to download and play them, but unfortunately I don't have the time right now. Sucks to be me sometimes. Oh well. lol. :)

NaNoReNo 2012

So, NaNoReNo 2012 starts tomorrow and I already had a visual novel in mind, but I decided not to take part in this years challenge. It's much to close to the release of last visual novel and I think it will be just to stressful to start a brand new project with only one day to plan before March.

Besides all that, I still do not have a scanner or a tablet and making games without either of the two is frustrating. So for the month of march I'll be writing posts on Renpy games like I planned to do a long time ago. I have many games on my computer that I haven't played or commented to and it's getting really sad. While I'm at it I plan to be finishing up Sweethearts as well. I would love to take part in this years challenge, but I just can't do a solo project this month right now. It will just take to much out of me, though I am free to help out.

So next Month is officially Renpy game playing month for me. I hope to post about at least 10  renpy games, do a formal review for Cinders, and hopefully complete Sweethearts at the end of next. If I can do all that in thirty days, I'll be very happy.

Sweethearts beta

I finally, finally finished the beta of Sweethearts. It was insane making this game, small as it is in just three days. If only I didn't keep putting it of it would have been a better beta, but considering that I did a bulk of my work in just three days while going to work too, I couldn't be happier.

Windows (21 MB)      Mac (18 MB)     Linux (16 MB)

It's much to rough for me, but at least the general concept is there. I'm glad that I finished by my deadline and I'm exhausted. I hope the players like it though, it was my first real romance story after all.

Edit 2/18/2012: Fixed minor glitches on the beta

My Valentine's Day Project

So, I'm nearly done writing the first draft for my Valentine's Day project. It is going to be shorter than expected since the story took a sudden turn in events while I was writing it. I got the sketches of my characters ready and waiting to be scanned. A little coloring (with my mouse and NOT a tablet. UGH!), editing, scripting, and programming, and it should be done before or on Valentine's Day.

Edit: Today, I finally finished the first draft of this novel and finished the sketches for the characters. The list I have to do finish before Valentine's Days is long. I'm really going to have to hustle to complete if before Valentine's Day is over. I hope I can get it done.

Welcome to my new site

Something majorly weird was going on with my other blog site, so much so that I decided to just move my posts here and start all over again. Sorry for the move, I hope it was for the best. Anyway for some reason I couldn't post messages to other people's blogsites. It worked well when I moved to this new address, but now I can't comment anymore.

Just how am I going to let others know that I'm interested in their stories if I can't leave a message? It's frustrating!

Edit: Strangely, it seems like I can leave a comment as long as the Comment Settings as set on the pop-up window. Weird

Finally Purchased Cinders for myself

After months of waiting, I finally decided to go ahead and buy Cinders after I saw the pre-release was ready for download. It took some time to finally get it to work, but TeeGee was really patient with me and we finally got it to work.

I am now the proud owner of my own copy of Cinders! I'm so happy!

Pre-Writing & Progress

I've stated more than once that I was going to attempt to finish a Valentine's day project and last night, I finally got off my lazy butt to start. I don't got much honestly, but the characters name and the basic summary, but I'm excited to get working creatively again. It seems like forever since I was inspired to create anything. It will be good to get motivated again.

Two pitfalls though is the fact that I have neither a tablet or a scanner. At the very least I can write the story and get a few concept sketches, but until I get a scanner I'll have no artwork to show. Which really sucks, concept art is like my spinach.

I reloaded my Bunni and Kitty game again since megaupload was shut down. I'm bummed that it was up one day and then terminated the next. If this is the kind of power the government wants with its STOP and Protect IP Act, then I'm going to have to oppose it every time. It's to scary for them to take down large sites like that.