May 2022 UPDATE! (Patreon)

Hey people!

Another month has come by and I didn't meet the deadline I set to myself (I wanted to put the first alpha of the ACT1 since march...) But things seem to get better!. This month I got a job opportunity that will give me more time to develop the game!

Finished 4 of the animations for swimming, Rynn still needs to have the diagonal directions and maybe a couple turn around animation that makes it a more fluid animation than the one I showed last month.

I worked hard on remaking the tree and branches tiles, and I'm getting a good feeling about them but still need some work on them.

did make some transition tiles for the tree width, and new roots and cut offs. But mainly I worked on the branches tileset.

With those platforms I'm pretty happy, the issue lies in when I used them as a background also.

So I started working on a new type of background branches, that could work better. (still haven tested them)

Not matching the color because haven't put the background mask filter yet but they will look darker.

Also, you might got a glimpse of the leaves sprites before they go transparent, I got that pretty quick actually, looked some tweet from a famous e-game dev (Kyrieru) and tried to replicate what he was doing in clip studio paint. managed to do it pretty good!

I got amazed on how good looks and how easy is to actually do!

I have to explain what was happening in my life so far. I really need money to pay stuff irl (as everyone) And I was living mostly on my own savings and some here and there jobs I got since my parents passed on, but stuff got very bad to be honest. 

At the start of the year I got kind of lucky with some "long term" job opportunities but required me to be 100% on them, also I am studying at 42 Barcelona (an academy) learning programming so hopefully I get a better job with that. These pasts months were very hard, from January to half of March I was waking up at 5 am and getting home at 3pm, then I had to study, and from the latter half of March and April I was working from 2pm to 10pm getting home at 10:30, I got better sleep but didn't study nearly enough as I needed. 

Luckily my boss allowed me to study in the dead hours at the job.

The best part comes this week, when I got offered a promotion (a demotion on some peoples eyes) where I got moved to work only part time at a town nearby instead at the busy city. I will get payed less but tbh better, I need money to live not to get a lot and then not being able to spend it at all because the lack of time.

This new job gives me enough and it has very flexible hours, in fact I'm the only employee there at those hours so its pretty chill.

Anyway, I'm saying this because I needed to vent a little bit, I was getting some health issues with no rest and the anxiety. And from now on expect more dev stuff, I am more free now!

Yay!!!