Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you've had a great time the last week/s and maybe you still are! All I know is that it went by so damn fast it felt like a slightly longer than normal weekend. I had the opportunity to "kick off my shoes" and do some family stuff and had my fill of deviled eggs. I basically only eat those things when it's the last day of the year so I go hog on those things when I do : ) So I had a very nice time! Naturally I couldn't entirely stay away from working on the games and I did something which I've been wanting to do for a while now which is replaying FET from the start.

I still have to do the Love route, because like I said, time went by so fast and I ended up with more FET than I had time for to finish both routes, but I'm happy I at least finished "one leg" of the journey. So I will still be replaying FET's love route, but slower and in smaller segments as I start work on the new 18Titans build for this month.

I've been wanting to replay FET from the start because I needed to refresh my memory in order to change/fix/create - stuff/saves which I couldn't or didn't notice earlier. Some of it is about making things more efficient. Especially in the earlier books there's still a lot of horrible inefficient stuff going on, but I've also been changing things in book4! Mostly making it such that you can do the same with less clicks, getting things to play a tad smoother. Like I said I'm not done with that and there's a lots I never even had time for, but I'll keep doing that until the next build for FET.

That kinda hooks in with my new years' resolution. I normally don't have those, but I do now. Generally speaking I have a one track mind and that hasn't always been the best way of getting several things done. Normally I start working on something and don't stop until I have that specific part done. So if I work on the images for one specific scene, I only do that and nothing else. That way of working can become a roadblock which basically hurts everything else if I'm having trouble with a scene or mini-game or whatever.

I want to try and differentiate that and include some variation with what I do throughout a day. Which would mean me setting aside a part of the day to do things like adding to the gallery (which I've basically been neglecting for a while now), replaying/changing older parts, write/code... etc. besides only working on one part and that part alone. Not certain how that'll turn out in practice but let's see if it can shake things up for the better.

Part of it is also keeping a diary on my pc of what I've been doing throughout a day. I've tried doing that before but it went nowhere. Till now I've been writing stuff down on a whiteboard. ...Calling it a whiteboard is probably giving you the wrong idea... It's a handheld erasable slate. I write things on it which I don't won't to forget and erase it again when it got done. Stuff like people I still have to reply to, ideas for scenes, jokes, story ideas etc. Anything which I don't want to immediately start work on and am afraid I might forget otherwise.

Fun story, it(slate) fell on the floor (a rug to be precise) with the writing facing downwards and then I stepped on it, accidentally sliding it over the rug for a couple of inches. And now I've discovered a really, really easy and thorough way to erase everything on it in one go.

Sooo.... yeah I think I'd like to have my ideas, plans and player suggestions present on something whose weakness isn't carpet... which only leaves my clumsiness to deal with which is probably a far bigger threat.

 TLDR: to summarize, I'd like to add some more stability through variation to my work process.

I've been talking more about FET than Titans, but this month will be an 18Titans month again. I've already been working on changing the anal window scene with Raven, adding a top down view for Raven and having Starfire help out if she's there. Just familiarizing myself again with Titans and getting back into the thick of things. I'm looking forward to adding new things and breaking new perverted grounds in 2025 : ) !

I'm really hoping 2025 will be a great year for all of us(or simply boring if you prefer, I certainly do). And I want to thank you for hanging around or returning perhaps!

Like I said, this month will Be a 18Titans month build, but I'll have more to say in a future art update. I mainly just wanted to get those "Happy New Year" wishes out there now it's still fresh.

Oh! And I have one slight regret. Something I forgot to add while I was writing my Christmas post. I wanted to share a video/song I saw on youtube which had me go "WTF" in a good way... so it's a little late, but here it is.

Enjoy ...the nightmares!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSXjFPetNm8