Hey everyone!! I got some bad, BAD news!! And some GOOD news! Not some “good, GOOD news”, just “GOOD” news!.

As usual I hope everyone is doing well! I've been doing alright, very stressed but i got some time to write this down and feel a lil better about myself, so it’s not that bad.

Alright, let’s talk about VOID:

April, I got some stuff done in April, mainly stuff relating to menus and save files, which I now know how to use! That’s gonna be very handy for some stuff i’ll mention later on (you’ll see this when i get to talk about June), I also posted that over on twitter and Instagram, and now here! Take a look.

That’s footage from exactly April 22nd so the stuff like the options menu being WIP wasn’t true a few days after that (although now incomplete because of some stuff that’ll happen in June so i have to re-do it, I’ll get to that), I also made that music that’s playing in the background, I'm still not sure if I’m going to leave it as is or remake it, knowing me i probably will though.

That’s pretty much it for April, so let’s briefly talk about May, i decided to not do anything in may, I was about to start finals and some other important school stuff. I just decided to halt development until I was less busy.

June, month of big decisions!, so at the start of June I had some ideas. I wasn’t happy with what the game was at that point and I decided to change the whole genre of game I was going to make. At first, VOID was going to be a really simple game about dodging little bullets and just getting to a finish line, to me–at first, thought this was fine for my first game, but then i started to think the idea was boring the more i designed levels, whenever i played around with the player controls it didn’t feel like what i wanted the game to feel like was suited with the style of game i wanted to make, instead of changing the player control i changed the whole genre, it is now a roguelike.

Once I made that decision I started to make mockups and have more ideas than I ever had for this game, so much that the final product might be too long to be- on newgrounds… oops.

So the game grew a little bit more than I ever expected it to grow, which is actually pretty good for me (for some reasons I won't disclose at this point in time), but probably not good for you because you don't get cool game soon… BUT DON'T WORRY! Remember that announcement I said I was going to do a little after this post? Well I'm not doing it after this post, I’m doing it now! Because honestly It’s not that huge of an announcement anyway, here it goes: VOID is getting released on steam when it’s done, but getting an early demo here on newgrounds before it releases. If u have no idea why this is a big deal, here's a brief explanation: VOID is my first game i plan on fully developing, It was planned to be fully a newgrounds exclusive, since it was going to be small game at the start.

I also got some other stuff to say, remember the bad news part? Well, here it goes… I'M GONNA HAVE TO RE-MAKE THE WHOLE GAME FROM THE GROUND UP. Okay so to make it short, i'm having a lot of issues rn with godot 4, so much i’d rather just use godot 3.5, all the tutorials/guides i’ve found for stuff i want to get in the game is 3.5 and is weird to translate to godot 4, I'm not even sure if it’s possible at this point, it’s that bad.

Oh! I also revealed what the player character looks like in a lil art post, check that out if you haven’t!

Thanks for reading the VOID section of the update! I will try to make some shorter stuff here before it releases, maybe participate in some game jams? Who knows! I’ve also been thinking of making some devlogs, especially now that i have to re-make the game, I’ll think about it, maybe that can be something in between not wanting to work on the game.

Alright, I'll briefly talk about my personal life because I decided to make these just “SEASONAL UPDATE”s and not “SEASONAL VOID UPDATE”s, u can just skip this whole part if u want lol!!.

School has been very stressful, if u guys dont know, because i live in a different country the way our highschool works is different to what some of u might think, I’m like 80% sure we got as much work as a university student would have while studying at university, so It’s pretty hard to be doing this kinda stuff on the internet while also doing that, i think it’s mostly harder because i think i got adhd or smthn, I'm not sure though, don’t quote me on that. Anywho, i still did bad in school, as bad as I did last semester, I'm kind of ashamed of the fact because i really want to be in school, like– I’d rather not but I'm fine and cool with doing it if It’s the best thing i can do at the moment, I also gotta do more work if i fail classes and idk about u all but i’d rather do my last exam and bail, like- I'm good, y’know.

Recently the heat has been cranking up where I live. I used to have a working AC but it stopped working around the end of summer last year, it wasn’t that hot, I didn't really mind, so we didn’t do much about it, big mistake. As I'm writing this there are two fans running in my room, the ceiling fan and a pedestal fan directly behind me, I am wearing a tank top below my shirt, it helps to not feel the sweat in every inch of my body, I have to sleep downstairs where there is a working AC so i don’t sleep and wake up drenched, tired and dehydrated, I’ve never had to take such drastic measures before and the man that repairs the AC hasn’t showed up the days he’s said he would come over, send help.

For the ppl that decided to stick with me through that rant, I’ll leave you with some stuff I posted on twitter, plus some stuff I've never posted! Don’t tell the other guys but u all are secretly my favorite, shhhh.

I COULDN'T GET GIFS TO WORK FOR SOME REASON HERE SO HAVE THIS

That’s about it! Hope y’all have a good and fun couple of months! Bye-bye! :3c