What's up yall today I think I'll recap my 2017, starting with important-ish events.

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HIGH SCHOOL IS DONZO

Yep I'm done with highschool finally. My final year was filled with various shenanigans. I honestly don't remember too many signifigant events from school though. HOWEVER I gotta share something that happened in the last week of school. In Chemistry class we were supposed to make a video, kinda ranting about something related to science. Because I'm a lazy asshole I waited until the weekend before and I shitted out this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lgINz7FPRk yeah it's pretty stinky BUT I had to have something since my grades were awful in that class. It was double block, which meant I had that class an hour before and an hour after lunch. I was the last video we watched before lunch and for some reason pretty much everyone loved it. I had to head to meet up with someone, and these fukkin hotties from my class went to the coffee shop I was at. I overheard them talking a bit and they were talking about some of my other videos! Turns out when I left class early, the class just went on my Youtube channel and were watching the bullshit I put on there. It's mostly mashups and shit, but the funniest shit is that these two girls liked this one Migos x HuniePop mashup I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WXfppDSqc Like what the shit these people that I've known for 4-5 years that I've never talked to all of a sudden really like this bullshit that I've been making, and specifically stuff relating to the anime dating sim HuniePop, man if only they knew how much of a loser I really am ayyy. Anyways this actually spread a bit to my art class where my kinda pal Christina showed a bunch of people my bullshit video. It got ridiculous. One of the dang cute girls from science class actually asked me to sign her yearbook, and to be honest I actually kinda had a crush on her for like a good majority of high school. Maybe this sounds like nothing but this is someone I have never interacted with 1-on-1 ever before, I never talked to her, she never talked to me, but out of nowhere she asks me to sign her yearbook? Puss town here I come right fellas? Anyways that's pretty much the most eventful thing that happened in my last year of high school. If someone from my high school happens to read this uhhhh yeah I definitely was a loser but man that last week of school was rad as hell.

VIDEO GAME DEVELOPMENT:

I made a dang bunch of video games this year. The first one I made was Newgrounds SIM 2017, which won 3rd place during Pico Day (out of 5 games or something lol). During the time I hoped I would continue the project over the months but I sorta moved on. I'm very disatified by it, and I WILL come back to the project, in that case I'll probably just redo it from scratch since I'm a much better programmer and game designer.

The next game I made was _R_G_B_ with TheOverGhoul . It was for the Construct 3 Game Jam from earlier this year. I was level design, and art stuff. I really think it turned out pretty good, and I hope to return to the game in someway sometime in the future, since it's actually the only puzzle game I've ever made. 

Up next is Lost Connection, a game I made with DigitalFudge for Ludum Dare 39. We started working together a little while earlier for a dating sim that we ended up putting on hiatus  and a small infinite runner prototype. We designed it and I wrote the story and programmed it. From a storytelling perspective I really love it. I also got Troisnyx to hook me up with some really rad music. The game would not be the game it is without the music.

Then in September I started my spree of games that I shit out in less than a week. First was REBIDENT EBIL: THE GAME, which was an adaptation of a bit at the end of PhantomArcade's Rebident Ebil animation he made earlier in the year. Moawling did art for the bit in Phantom's toon, so I got hooked up with some official assets that were used in the toon! I actually liked how the game turned out, but it's at less than 2.5 stars lol. The next few games I made include a little drawing/art game called GES-TURED. Some pals have told me that they really liked the movement in that, so I'll probably end up expanding upon that sometime in the future. I also made a small rhythm game in 4 hours(WAVE)!!!! Man at the beginning of the year I never would've thought I'd be able to make a rhythm game, and especially not in 4 hours! In a week at the end of October I made Xmas Anxiety with aninvisiblepirate who also worked on a game during Ludum Dare 39. Xmas Anxiety was a stealth game about hiding from people in Wal-Mart during Christmas Eve. For some reason I super stressed about that game and developing it. But in the end it's another game I wanna come back to for it's potential!

Then in November I asked PhantomArcade if he wanted to make a little game. Honestly I've probably interacted with him under 5 times in my life before that point. I remember he actually played _R_G_B_ with IvanAlmighty during a little livestream, and he was on the Pico Day livestream with Moaw. I actually thought he was kinda a goon at that point in time. But anyways, I asked Phantom to make a game because Moaw has previously worked with him on their Construct 3 game jam game. Moaw said that he essentially had this stupid bullshit idea for a game (which turned into Get Creamed) and I knew I had to make a game with him. Originally I had intented to make a small game that could be made in a weekend, but he suggested it'd be better to slowly work on it over time. I expected it to be a few weeks, maybe a month of on and off work, but oopsies now we're kinda aiming for sometime early 2018 heheheh dang PhantomArcade go call him a tool.

Anyways in November I was actually able to shit out another game, Breathing Simulator. I made this and posted the concept to my Supporter Exclusives BBS post, where I post early access to my games for NG Supporters. I actually ran out of supporter status myself and I'm unable to renew, so I haven't been able to update it. Anyways, BrandyBuizel reached out to me to do some art since he got a fancy schmancy new Cintiq that he wanted to try out I guess lol. Anyways I really just wanted to make a game that was literally a breathing simulator. I probably won't expand upon that game but it was good stupid shit to just get out there.

At the beginning of December I participated in Ludum Dare 40. I was gonna work with Moawling on this one, but my internet actually went out for a while and I guess Moaw was busy or somethin ehh. Hopefully next time, or some other gamejam. Anyways for LD40 I made IN-FAMOUS all by myself! I really liked how this turned out only because I love the idea of bullying players, so I was able to get away with calling people rude names like retard, asshole, cuck, nazi, yet still get reviews like this: 

Basically the story of the game is that you're this degenerate that makes super offensive content. It was somewhat inspired by the reviews I got on REBIDENT EBIL: THE GAME. In RE the game calls you a faggot when you get a gameover. This was not my idea but I got the critisisms for it dang stinky PhantomArcade strikes again what a gay. Anyways I don't really care about them too much, I just thought the ridicuoulousness would be funny in a game. A few days ago was the rating deadline for Ludum Dare games, and Alex Rose was playing a bunch on stream, so I showed it to him. Alex did the Ludum Dare keynote this time around, and he actually held an art contest on Newgrounds earlier this year! We ended up talking a bit I guess in his Discord server, and I got to play his game with him since it was online multiplayer! Everyone should check out his stuff since he cool.

FOSTER CARE SHIIT:

This is a bit more personal stuff so feel free to stop reading since this is the last section.

I've actually been in foster care since late 2015, and it wasn't until July when I got to start living with my mom again. I got to visit my mom 2-3 times a week during that time, but I was at least with my brother and sister. My foster parent was alright for the most part. She was really anal about me being on the computer and not interacting with real people though. I was only able to go on the computer for 2 hours a day when I was living with her. In the summer of 2016 I would actually wake up at 5AM to work on animations until 10-12AM since at the time I was working on animations for the summer animation jam stuff that was going on around then. I really wish she wouldn't have pushed me so hard to do stuff other than computer since that's where most of our conflicts were and I think she's an alright person, she's just kinda dumb sometimes I guess heheheh. Anyways, there are some things I miss about it, like her family and stuff were super nice, in fact her sister inlaw was probably the nicest person I've ever met. When my foster parent was out of town she'd take care of us a for a day or so and we usually got some good ass pizza. There's a lot of good memories I have and overall foster care was a positive experience for me. I remember when I won $100 from Pico Day, I feel like it got me a bit of cred with her since it was real money, and it was actually $130 CAD so hey ez ez.

ANYWAYS this newspost has gone on long enough, 2017 was a real good year, I made some cool Newgrounds pals and collaborators and that makes me genuinly happy that I'm at that point. I'd be happy if 2018 was half as good as this year for me. GOOD STUFF THIS WAS A CHEESY ASS NEWSPOST TBH