Alright, time to wrap up the first month of the new year in my online journal.

It was a pretty regular month for me personally, nothing out of the ordinary happened. I was mostly busy trying to uphold my new year's resolutions (doing more fitness, going outside more yada yada yada) and simply just enjoying life.

Now towards the stuff that's more interesting: My video game.

So, the plan was that I would make my very own video game, a RPG to be more precisely. I tried the last month to get into programming (I've never done this before lol), I downloaded Godot, made some character and background assets and tried to program some simple movement and interaction options to create something presentable. Needless to say, I ran into some kinda issues.

It's not even that I really underestimated how hard programming could be; I expected that. The problem is that I often ran into issues where I didn't really knew a solution and I often had to work my way around in ways that doesn't really satisfy me. All in all, I don't think programming is for me.

Maybe I should try a different format to present the stories I want to share with the world. Maybe a visual novel or a comic will do the same for me. Or, maybe instead I will find someone who could do the programming for me while I only make the creative inputs.

It's all not very clear, but that's okay. That's the cool thing about doing this purely as a hobby, you can take your time to figure out what you're actually wanting to do and don't have to worry about upsetting anyone. Honestly, for Project Uncaged Dog (that's the working title of what my game is supposed to be) I already planned that the time I'm working on it will encompass somewhat around a decade, maybe less maybe more. I have some rough ideas of the story and some character designs but so far nothing too deep. I planned to release like a short first chapter of the overall larger story somewhere around next year and I honestly think regardless of what medium my project will be, I think that's still something that I should do.

Anyways, I think I should just continue doing what I like: drawing art, shitposting and overall having fun on the internet. I also got at least some followers on my sites already so I'm not completely shouting into the void. So yeah, that's it for January, onto a successful February!

Iggys