Well, I gotta do what I gotta do.

[INHALE]

I do this every year lol.

Well, I guess I'm 40 years old. 20 years ago I didn't even expect to take this detour. Started out on RPGMaker 2000 wanting to be a big time game dev while pretty much barely living, then along came FLASH MX 2004 and 20 years later I find myself knee deep in the world of international business and actually making enough moolah to actually enjoy game dev as a hobby without having to do POPULAR THING (Thanks Wegra!). And just so you know, I'm not gonna stop, even if I hit 80.

Just goes on to say crazy shit happens in life and it's absolutely unpredictable.

BUT WAIT! AS OF WRITING THIS NEWSPOAST, I'M LEVEL 39 ON NEWGROUNDS! SO I'M NOT ACTUALLY AT LEVEL 40 OF REAL LIFE YET! AHAHAHAHAHA YES, TAKE THAT MIDLIFE CRISIS! YOU AINT GETTING ME YET! [Lie 0%]

Narrator: Denial is the first stage of grief.

Onto more interesting news, take a look at the work in progress of the next game project!

IT'S EVERYWHERE.

From jumbled lines and rambling notes on a sketchbook to somewhat-complete game, this project has survived the horrors of real life and a lot of project juggling when I had to deal with that 2024 loan deadline, and now that summer vacation is here, I hope to finish it just in time for the 21st anniversary of this crazy game series.

So far, half the storyline events are done, with 2/3rds of the side material finished. Thanks to everyone who contributed trivia, event ideas and most of all, the PINGAS LAZOR! You know who you are!

I don't really have a name for it YET, but it's a direct sequel from the events of Sex Kitten 10. Don't worry, I'll achieve the Ballmer Peak and figure something out right at the end.

I should buy it a beer, damn.

HINT: Never tell a nature goddess that you are directly responsible for a global wildfire.

Just putting that out there.

What other stuff is new? Well, I recently rediscovered an old hobby of mine earlier this month...

I had a blast playing though one of my favorite pokemon games in the series after all this time. Feels great to really sit back down, relax and play some peak quality videogames without the worry of a "HEY MAN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED AT WORK, WE NEED YOU NOW! WHAT, NO VEHICLE?! USE INSTANT TRANSMISSION!" call. Rebuilding the ol' Join Avenue to match the power level on my old DS cart was fun - more so with the power of the INTERNET (Real guests instead of NPCs)!

A much-needed vacation. Funny story, I slept through most the first days of summer vacation, I guess I have sleep debts to pay [HORROR STING].

And since this summer vacation is 100% paid, I'm gonna put a video of one of the best non nons say Summer Vacation. WOOOOOO!

Later this summer, I'm taking a short course in improved web design. Notepad and HTML is cool and all, but single brick webpages shouldn't be the end all-be all of my website design portfolio. Oldschool geocities pages did so much more and I'm eager to learn how. Can't stay a rookie forever, ya know.

There's some other stuff I'm working on:

Much to my surprise, Renpy's evolved a lot during the last few years and I've decided to start a short kinetic novel for the fun of it. It's definitely a lot easier to use than the good ol' bad ol' days (insert BACK IN MY DAY meme here) when there was no debug message aside from a crash to DOS LOL. I admit that I'm still a beginner when it comes to that platform, so might as well start with something simple, right?

Also, I'm doing some scenario writing work for a friend of ours working on a TTRPG (that's tabletop RPG in nerd talk). Fun little exercise to be sure, but it's always nice to find new hobbies and things to do. I'll never get bored at this rate BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

... maybe I should resurrect some of those book projects again, now that I have SUPER SAND LEGEND free time. Maybe.

I'm gonna be working on game dev some more, but before I sign off, here's a thank you for all the birthday greetings and presents you awesome people have sent me thus far. Thank you all!

THATS RIGHT YOU ALL GET A BONUS PREVIEW: New, improved ZEEKY SECURITY SAFE! Get the code wrong 3 times, and BOOOOOM goes your FAIC!