Allium's Corner Oh yeah I'm going to put dates here in the day/month/year way. Clearly the superior way/j
First blog on the site!
I'm thinking of maybe posting once a week or month, but I'm not locking myself into something too strict. If I find something I want to talk about, I will. I also don't know how long these will be, I have a tendency to yap a lot, so the blog length might vary a lot. And also I'm still figuring out how to balance these things out, this is just the first blog of maybe many.
Same applies to the formatting, I just want something to get it going, y'know?
The site
I'm on college break so I've been working on the site pretty much every single day, average of an hour a day but there's been quite a few where I have spent two or maybe three hours total on it fdnsjsfds. Honestly it's kinda surprising I'm managing to work on it this much with artfight and Deltarune chapter 5 having just released. Everything is kinda on the back burner I guess lol.
But it's also because of my wrists. Drawing digitally can easily fuck them up, so typing is usually the safer option and doing this site is a lot of that. Though it's generally just really fun to make my own space where I'm pretty free to do anything I want in the format I want (to the best of my abilities, anyways). It's hasn't been a fully smooth road, but after every bump I feel I learn something and can do better next time.
I probably should get properly back on the HTML/CSS learning, I'm taking it more slowly after I got confused on a few things and decided to make a cheatsheet for myself (which I also put on the back burner because of working on the site oops), it will be here whenever I get it done-ish.
The color scheme was a nice surprise, I'm actually a huge fan of purple, but for my creative stuff I've been leaning a lot to warmer colors recently. Though I plan on doing a dark theme whenever I figure out how to do that.
There's still a lot to do, but it's getting to a point where I think all the base pages will be done soon! I'll probably always have something to tinker with, but the big changes are slowing down. An oc section might appear one day too!
Deltarune
Light spoilers for chapter 5 in this section, mostly just mentioning some boss fights.
I want to make a proper post about my thoughts on chapter 5, but its generally very positive! I've been wanting to draw a lot for it, but haven't actually been able to do it much, besides the other creative endeavors I got into. I want to do a lot but the "ignition" to start them is kinda wack. Maybe now that I'm more settled into the site.
Even with that, I got quite a lot of inspiration, even if it's slower. Maybe it's the huge amount of free time I have now with college break making me not know how adjust well to this much free time. Y'know, that thing of the more time you have, the less will get done and such. But I'll try to change!
Besides that, I've been improving quite a bit on Flowery and Pink's fights! They're still hard but it's been more manageable every time I do them. I recently did a secret boss rush of all chapters + Flowery and I only died once! And it was from Jevil fndsnjdfs. He still baffles me and it's the one secret boss I have the highest loss to win ratio. Chaotic motherfucker.
I also have tinkered on my list for everything in each chapter that can help with the secret bosses but also just helps general gameplay. Everything from chapter 5 is there, but I'm still testing out stuff, mostly in chapter 2 and seeing what combination of the items you get after Pink work well. Here's the link for the template if you want to check out! Just make a copy if you end up wanting to use it!
Gaming
Besides Deltarune, I've been playing Minecraft a bunch, mostly in the world me and my sister made recently, just gathering some resources and such. We recently started building our base and it's been looking great! Maybe I'll share it some day, who knows.
It's a good way to turn off the brain a little and listen to some stuff.
Besides that, I returned a bit to Slime Rancher 1. I actually spent a good part of this year just playing it and SR2, like until chapter 5 got announced, I had mostly only played them and a bit of In Stars and Time. So yeah it got a bit to the wayside. But I picked it up again for a few hours one night recently and I'm just one 7Zee rewards club rank away from pretty much 100%-ing the file! It's kind of a weird feeling, to have it so close to the end. But I'm not letting go of the game fully yet, I want to try the rush mode eventually and maybe try the tarr-related achievements (I don't play with them on). Just taking a short break from it.
Creative things
All in all, it's been quite a month full of creative things done! Just on a slower pace but still quite a bit.
Artfight has been a main-ish focus, I'm not forcing myself to do attacks if I don't want, and it's been mostly every other day, with some exceptions. But it's been fun! I've been pelted by the lovely attacks I got. My goal was to do 20 attacks this year, a low goal but still a good challenge, I had to skip last year's because of my wrists still recovering, so I didn't want to exert myself beyond my limits.
As of writing this, half the month has gone by, and I'm about to make my 10th attack. So an alright pace! Though I won't be too hard on myself if I don't get to the goal. It's been full of experimenting and that's more than enough for me to declare this year's round successful, but I'll still try to reach the goal.
I've been writing more again, finally picked back some wips after starting a new one, including the one I've been working for nearly a year and a half! I'm almost done with it, its 13k words right now, it's so close! I still need to edit all five chapters, revise if everything is still in a way I like, and do covers for each chapter. Maybe I'll do a little post-mortem blog about it when it gets finished and I start posting it.
My little game idea finally got some more traction, as I finally decided to start the game design document for it. It's not necessarily needed for every game, I wanted to do it to have a clear idea of what I wanted. And while it's not finished, it has been easier to do it than I feared, especially with all the little notes and everything I had already been doing on this project's sketchbook! Just had to procrastinate for nearly five months/j
These other creative things and hyperfixations have gotten a bit in the way of development, I barely have anything besides the main idea, the basic idea of the story and designs for a lot of the characters. But I'm not rushing and I might get it sped up as I get other smaller projects done. I seemingly always need a billion projects going at the same time.
Like my Deltarune weird route animatic I've thought about for almost a year that I finished drawing all the frames earlier in the month. Now I just need to edit it, which is the kinda intimidating part, but I'll figure something out...hopefully soon.
I also redesigned some ocs some days ago, but this is already getting quite lengthy, so I might make a separate blog for that too. Maybe.
Closing thoughts
Oh boy this got long sdfnnsdfj
So in its entirety, this college break has been really good! Not the most productive in other life aspects, but it's been going.