WATCH I-BE AREA
WATCH I-BE AREA
Editing game work is both easier and harder than writing it. I feel more pressure than ever editing...
Right now, I'm on this "short" game's 2nd draft. The main goal is to: 1. Do general editing; Do things flow together? Does the logic and order make sense? I wrote this draft over a month, so things may be unessisarily repeated. Do things need to be expanded upon? Would someone who is not me be able to understand the world? And 2. Since this is a visual novel with romantic elements, are both love interests fleshed out enough to make them desireable? Is it clear why the main character would be interested? Is it clear why they would want the main character? Is there enough lead up for each stage of their interactions?
Initially, I also wanted to start creating a list of things I needed, but I kind of forgot after the first portion (The game is set up into a 3-act structure currently; General intro, meat and potatoes and endings. While the lengths of these aren't uniform, aside from "act setting" parts (something that'll make sense once fleshed out), Act 1 has 4 parts; Act 2 has 13, and there are 9 endings; though aside from 1, they each have a paired ending based on conditions.)
As it stands right now, I reached the halfway point! It's funny, this little ramble is a mix of new and old from the 5th and today (the 9th). I went from 26.k to up to 36.4k, and there's still somehow a gap of 3k new words introduced... Don't know how, especially as I've cut stuff out! Whatever, I've at least hit the halfway mark! It's kind of funny how you miss glaring issues when writing (spelling, even when it's in red; even messing with tense... That's a sore spot.....). I still actually notice some issues, but I'll have to go back and add scenes to compensate.
Also god I'm nervous about putting out a work in the big ol '26 because like... I'm an em-dash lover... But everytime I use one I get scared LOL. There's so many em dashes...!!!! Ah... It just looks nice, right...?
Anyway, I also watched I-Be Area earlier this month; While it'll have a review in my monthly movie ratings and such, I have to say it's something I can't stop thinking about. It feels like an uneasy cacophony of word salad but the more I ruminate on it, the more I really think it's really well done. That strange cacophony has meaning and it really is interesting it was made in 2007, because it could be made today and hit the exact same way. I just think the stylization of it is amazing too and it's really unlike anything else. It's hit home with me, in the same way sometimes you see pattern in static, though obviously this is much more intentional. I'm thinking of rewatching it already because of that... I don't really think anyone else would rewatch it with me LOL but I can't blame them either.
It's commentary about the web keeps coming back to revisit me. I feel like I'm becoming less interested in certain things, and it's kind of funny. A lot of commentary I put on as background noise has started to bother me, especially when I notice patterns of not actually adding any insightful commentary. For example, I was watching a video essay and most of it was fine... It just kind of didn't do anything new for me. Happens! I've enjoyed things from said creator before, but then they had a point where they had a "how to listen to music" tutorial for like 4 minutes and like... I just ended up clicking away because it didn't do anything for me personally and made me rethink the video in the fact of "what did I really get out of this?" No hate to the person who did the video at all, but I guess it's strange to even get pushed away from stuff that essentially served as background noise. (And I'm sure there's people out there who watched the same video and found it insightful! But for me personally, it felt like a way to fill ad time.)
Anyway, I've felt like writing more personal things lately. Perhaps it'll serve as... Something. If anything it shows kind of an unofficial dev log (I don't plan on having a dev-log outside of this as I don't want this project to take super long, as I want to get back to KKPP. However, religious yuri has infected my brain like mold!)
Maybe this month will be the month where I watch a movie for every day of the month...! I'm trying to do that, as I'm at 10 movies in 9 days. Trying to keep at least 1 day ahead...!!
Artfight also has been underway! I feel kind of bad because I've been really slow to attack back ;;; Sorry, I've been busy...! I wanna draw good things for people so I don't want to rush myself if I feel my skills are still warming up for the day or my heart isn't into it (by being distracted/wanting to do something else). It's hard...! But I'll perservere!! I also finally got an idea for how I want a SubPur page to look and I wanna make that... I also got a vision in a dream for how to re-do the overall OC landing, but I don't think I'll be going with that idea because in my awakened state, it doesn't seem quite practical (It was like a 3d-grid layout with a character standing on each square and if you click them they led to more information... Cute, but I don't think it's what I'm going with.) All of this is very... VERY slowly being done in the background (read: thought about but not started). Similar to the comics I mentioned re-doing last time... I guess it's better to have comics done first then populate that page (?).
I also really wanna work on the next 18782 chapter...!!!! I'm missing it!!! I have to fully plot it out... But I have the first like ~2-4 pages in my head... Maybe the last ~3 too... It's just the middle I need to figure out, but I need to start to get those visions...!!!!
Lastly: I've been really into music videos and I re-started a spreadsheet about them. When I was a kid, I caught MTV countdown shows... The one that stands out is the first time I heard Feel Good Inc by the Gorillaz LOL. I'm not even like massively into the Gorillaz (like what I've heard! Just not gone out of my way to listen to full albums). I've seen some of these coutdowns on Archive.org... I wish I could do something like that. I did "one episode" of a project like that forever ago, mainly focused on visual kei. My issue is if I did it, where to host it that wouldn't just be my computer LOL. There are so mainy auto-detection things that are a pain in the ass. You could do the ol' "Make a playlist" but it takes away some of the flare, you know?... Whatever. I'd like to do something like that with very specific categories. Bad CGI wings. Have a little poll for it. I think it'd be fun! It'd be fun!
... Funny enough, I'm not naturally an MV-First person. I think it can easily influence my thoughts on the song in a bad way too easily or vice versa. I'm slowly shedding that...! I think...!
7:59 PM ... 07.09.2026