I got a special surprise coming up, I hope you guys will like it

Heya, it's been a minute, hasn't it? Haven't posted any logs for a while.

My bad, but I managed to gather enough content to compile into another dev log. Development is still going pretty strong, got a few other things i may as well share for now.

So, first, I would like to bring out some news to show.

Pico is almost completely finished! We just need to do some other things before we show some of him off.

Here's one of the latest animations done.

In other news, we have made the decision to make our next alpha character to be Hank, as he has more progress for him done than everyone else, I figured why not.

First of all, we recolored Hank's default to be more consistent with his current original design, but we kept the red design as a alt color for all you Rank fans out there.

I've also tweaked his idle animation a bit too.

Well, I don't have a lot to share as I wanted most of them to be a surprise, but I do have one more thing I want to add before I go,

This game used to be called Newgrounds Rumble Petit, and Project NG was the working title, however I liked Project NG a lot more so the name was stuck, here's the old logo.

As I left twitter i never thought I would come to a site that was another twitter. I guess in case i need to spread my stuff more.

to those who do have bluesky i got a link

https://bsky.app/profile/notakin.bsky.social

I'm turning 21 today, hope I can get some birthday wishes along the way.

I think I might be going to Astoria pretty soon, I'm not sure what I'll do today.

The Sonic.EXE 12th anniversary is tomorrow, so what better way to express my biggest regrets regarding my time in the FNF modding community, Vs. Sonic.EXE. I don't mean to attack anyone or anything in the matter, but i want to be honest about my experience with the cursed project. Bear in mind my memory is a little fuzzy on this. I may be wrong, if so then let me know.

Scroll down for tl;dr

I've wanted to join the mod team for a while back when the mod was still being developed, back when it was cool. One day, I finally joined the team. I was a sprite artist there, the one time i joined the team i thought i was happy, i thought i could achieve my shitty dream of being part of a shitty creepypasta fnf mod. what i got in return was chaos. utter chaos. the direction of the mod was some of the most unorganized, cluttered, headache inducing, stressful, bloated, immature and confusing messes i have gotten myself into. everyone was told to do this or do that without focus on what they SHOULD be doing at all. I was supposed to be the sprite animator for another mod that would become Parallax, which was a DLC of the original mod directed by RIghtburst who was the original owner, imagine it, dlc for an alteady bloated fnf mod, anyway i was tasked to do sprites for Tails for a song related to his character named S0n1c, i even tried to insist to do the rest of the graphics but they wouldn't let me. again, usually there was arguments everywhere.

After Rightburst got the boot for the 2nd time I was tossed back in the original mod. this was the Avery Arc of the series. I went on to do his character, Chaotix, as the sprite animator. At first I believed i would be doing his sprites and animations, i was proud of them and honestly got carried away, i did all the hard work only for them to use my sprites as a reference for the other sprites which in my opinion were not as good as i hoped. Avery said that he will be using the sprites for the "good ending" version of the song the character is for, which they did use it, but they scrapped those sprites for both endings of the song. He said i would be able to animate the 2nd phase of the character, but i got too busy on another project so they let someone else do it for me so good on them.

Avery gotten the boot as well, for talking to pedophiles and keeping them in his mod team, that's what i heard not known, and started his own mod and invited me in it, i was in there for a little bit but i left silently. I stayed in the original mod again, back to the Com and Marstarbro Arcs. I was tasked to do sprites for Com's character, Requital, only animating his tails, nothing else. Not much happened since then, I would've also been the animator for Movie Sonic but plans fell through. I would've also animated BF for SH Tails's song Mania, but that never happened either, all i did was design BF for this, i named him Bitch Magnet.

And then the last task, animate Majin Sonic for Endless Encore. The sprites would've been in the 16-bit artstyle, and i got in to the most stupidest arguments with GP, left and right trying to decide what the song should look like. For that i deeply apologize for even starting the argument because i was stubborn. I got the role after the bloodbath, but it was not worth it in the slightest. I proposed to Saster, who took the role as the director at the time, and shown him the sprites, he said it's too detailed so i sent it off as an art piece instead, not too soon it was cancelled due to the constant leaks, loss of motivation, arguments left and right and headaches were and abundance, and I sworn off FNF and pursued my own project, Project NG; the fighting game i've been making this time.

Vs. Sonic.exe was a huge stain on my resume, even though I barely did work on the mod at all because i was already preoccupied on too many projects and i was tossed back and fourth in between projects, biggest mistake.

I then gotten a call from one of my friends, GP, who got me into the major FNF scene, Funkin at Freddy's, Vs. Sonic.exe, and now Mario's Madness, she asked if I can help with GB's animations for Golden Land, and I accepted, I animated 2 whole sprite sheets for the character, and clocked out and continued Project NG.

Mario's Madness is probably my last FNF related project I would work on.

But there's still a good ending in this shitshow. In the end i still improved on my art skills, I made a project of my own and that one is doing super well right now, and again, mario's madness was the better experience.

tl;dr

I wanted to join Vs. Sonic,EXE, got my wish, found myself in a middle of a warzone, got tossed back and fourth in between projects, witnessed arguments left and right, got into one myself, and could barely get any work done due to stress and overwhelming myself. The project died and i made my own, and actually got work done in mario's madness.

It's been a while since I made another dev log, development was sorta slow but I'm still managing this, I don't see the project going anywhere near cancellation, or at least not like how Sgt Frog RPG ended up.

Anyway, I got some news i gotta cover before I showcase snippets of the game before the reveal.

I found a new musician to help make more music easier, their name is REQ, they're gonna make this game sound really really good and i suggest you check them out.

And I found 2 animators who will help along the way, KokoroHatsaru and RadicalRonik, now animating the roster will be more easier to do since it's kinda big, even for my first game. the programming part would be covered by me if i learned how the coding for I.K.E.M.E.N. works, that way i can help program the game when my programmers cannot.

And lastly, I'm not sure about posting stuff on Twitter (or X, or X_X), but, it's still one of the reasons word of the game goes out, so if i want to be heard I'm not sure there is any other option, at least unless tumblr would like to do so, if you must please visit my tumblr, i linked it in my account page too.

And now... the stuff you've clicked in here for, the goodies.

Few Pico animations I haven't shared yet

Scrapped Pico Animations

The Making of c.HK

Rough Sketch

Rough Sketch with Head

Outline

Pixelation

Cleanup and Final Result

Stages

Nevada (By me and Yuri Kadry)

Next stage I cannot show so here's a 16x16 brick texture I made in Aseprite, cool, huh?

And that's mostly it for now, if you need to know the progress on Pico it's going well right about now, he's mostly done and I cannot wait to showcase him soon, as of now, see you later!

Never thought i'd actually get this far, thanks you guys

It's been a bit but for a while I had a tumblr account in case if i leave twitter, which i did leave twitter but never bothered to use tumblr, so maybe if i advertise it i could gain some attention for it. SO, i'll leave this here

I dont have a lot of posts there so bear with me, i'll repost some of my stuff soon.

https://www.tumblr.com/notakin

Happy Pico Day everyone! I don't have very many but I do got a few things I can share tis the season.

First of all, A shot of the new CSS, Designed by Marbardan, touched up by me, and being put together in game.

Here's a bare render of Pico too.

And lastly, Pico's idle animation.

That's all for now, I hope I can finish Pico enough to show him off in the game soon, see you later!

It's still the 30th where i'm at, so it still counts, anyway i dont have a lot to give other than wishes, but I might got something in the oven that i might show very soon. see you on Pico Day!