Content Update 9/24/22

Well, apparently, I never actually published the blog I made for next week. That's going to make things a little awkard since I feel like I have too much to update on regardless of that.

Progress has been going smooth for Dawn of Djinn, and I've made a ton of progress on Youtube uploads. Though I haven't had too much motivation to work on Sweet Expedition lately, so I'm just going to wait until I'm ready to resume that.

More details below.

Golden Sun/Paper Mario

A couple weeks ago I attempted to do something with a new NPC for Sweet Expedition but it kind of backfired and I haven't had the time or motivation to try and figure out why it's not working so I think that's a big reason I've been way more interested working on Golden Sun: Dawn of Djinn as of late.

I really hope I can keep expectations for Paper Mario Sweet Expedition down. I feel like there's no way it'll live up to the time it has taken for me to complete it, especially since I don't think I'm going to be able to implement every idea I wanted to do for it, but it's still too early to go into detail on that. Just keep in mind that this will probably be a 2-4 hour experience regardless on how long it takes to finish. It's not a full game it's just taking a while because my time has been pretty divided to between projects and TBH it's not the project that's of highest priority.

That reminds me, there's some cool stuff going on, way better than anything I would make, going on in the Paper Mario modding community lately. So I highly encourage you to check out the Discord (if you haven't already) in the meantime. TTYD-64 got a Ch 5 demo a few weeks back and I think a demo of Ch. 3 isn't too far away.

https://discord.gg/UuryQfE9

On that note. Progress on updating all the classes for the new version of Dawn of Djinn has been good and it's been fun. I think I'm going to wait another week or so before sharing any new details on it. I feel like it won't be safe from last minute changes until I've at least touched every class once. Even find myself going back to tri-elemental classes I thought I was done within version 1 and making new adjustments.

I've noticed that working on classes has not been as linear as I thought it would be, with a lot of moments where I go back and make adjustments to classes I thought I was already done with because of something I did to a class further down the list. So I think it's better to wait till I have things more concert before I share. A little concern how I'll balance everything else like Djinn and summons around all these new moves and classes yet; but at least it'll make for a VERY interesting class system. One that's drastically different from Dawn of Djinn Version 1. Looking forward to sharing more about it.

Videos

Just got done scheduling videos for the month of October, so I'm all set for the entire month minus recording and making the month's Game N Chill and doing the thumbnails for Dawn of Djinn videos. Extra Splatoon VODs help but I think what really helped was the strong spurt of motivation I had to edit Paper Mario Randomizer videos.

I REALLY wanted to get that series done so I could start editing the new playthrough for the channel and start uploading it for my birthday month. However, despite having everything scheduled for the month, even with making Paper Mario the twice a week upload instead of Golden Sun, there are still videos leftover to edit. So that's sadly going to have to wait till November... still I I'm sure I can think of some way to squeeze in a fun birthday bonus.

So video plan for October is Paper Mario Randomizer Monday & Friday, Golden Sun Dawn of Djinn on Wednesday, Mis. videos Saturday, and shorts Sunday. Will see if I decide to squeeze anymore uploads in this month, if only to get just get Paper Mario Randomizer finally finished.

Art

Also managed to put a lot of time aside this week to do some drawing as well. Recently finished a couple drawings, still working on getting them up on certain social channels but I'll link the Tweets for each of them so you can check them out in some form at least.

Mis

Beyond that I have been enjoying Splatoon 3. That story mode is nuts, probably one of my favorite stories from the series yet. I was so engrossed in it I pretty much rushed the levels to get to the end as soon as I could and didn't really spend too much time in the multiplayer until this week. So I've been using a good chunk of my spare time after work and that working on "catching up" on mutiplayer in the game.

Last week felt like it had a lot of ups and down and I didn't have the time I would of like to get things done over the weekend. Plus it was Community Day (which I got a decent haul of shiny Pokemon and a nice walk BTW) so that cuts into free time. This weekend, only excuse I really have is Splatfest but it's fine. I can't complain about anything I don't get done this weekend because I do have some enjoyable things to do like that. Plus I just got back from a pretty nice walk. Took some pictures in Pokemon Go while I was out so that'll make it's way to Instagram and TikTok eventually. It's nice Pokemon Go has such a nice AR photo feature and it's a bit of a shame Pikmin Bloom will never be on Go's level when it comes to phototaking. Especially when Pikmin 3 had such a beautiful photo taking mode. I've seen updates that show that they tried to make it better, but it's still kind-of underwhelming unfortunately.

Streaming was a bit rough on me last week BTW so it was nice to see things go much more smoothly with the Dawn of Djinn stream a couple days ago and hopefully that'll continue into today.