Jordy

It's January 1st, having been one day shy of a year since my last update. I've been thinking a lot about what this post would look like over the past couple weeks in terms of what I did/didn't want to talk about, but there's one topic I regretfully could never have predicted... I got hacked. Nightma

HAPPY NEW YEAR GAMERS!!! 🗣🗣🗣 I'm not sure how, but it seems we've all survived the hellscape that was 2024. And honestly? Good fucking riddance. It was definitely a rough one (at least for me) but no matter how it went, we all did well to make it this far. From the bottom of my heart, well done g

Greetings Arcanists! Finally watched JayVick S2 and it's genuinely mesmerizing how beautiful every single frame of that show is. I did miss some of the tighter and focused storytelling of S1, but I think both the visual and thematic spectacle more than made up for it. Not to mention the pining. Oh l

Greetings Eldans! The Tournament for the Throne is upon us! Apologies for getting a bit political, but I just wanted to show some appreciation for Metaphor's well-timed release. In one of the more divided moments of our history, we've got a game out here staring that division in the eyes and daring

Hey folks, Another short and sweet update this month. I'm feeling really good about the project right now, but life continues to throw hands from time to time. I'm still dealing with some of the personal stuff from last month, so work has been something of a peaceful escape as I sort myself out. I'v

Greetings JJK Apologists! Gonna keep things short and sweet this month. August went pretty well overall, but I have been dealing with some personal stuff lately that's been a bit emotionally draining. In general, I've just been feeling a little hollow and out of touch with myself for a good while no

Greetings Tarnished! Finally got to start the Elden Ring DLC after narrowly escaping PC Hell last month, and it's been a lot of fun! I hadn't even thought about the performance gains with games, but I gotta say loading into ER within 3-5s feels really fucking good after being so used to it taking li

Greetings Whispers! Finally finished Rebirth the other week and it critically hit me with so much psychic damage that I just had to rant about it, so I did! If you're interested, you can give that a read here. While the game kinda falls apart in the last act, I was able to snag a few hundred referen

Massive spoilers for Remake and Rebirth ahead. Wanted to get my thoughts down but I ended up writing way more than expected, so I figured I'd just post it here! Enjoy! Finished Rebirth. Gameplay wise it was pretty fucking great and felt like a solid step up from Remake. Synergies were a really fun a

Greetings Gaymers! 🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈 While this is technically my recap for May, it's also technically June at the time of writing, and I think we all know what that means... The Production of Assets I spent most of the month working on more architectural assets like stairs, walls, etc. Not the funnest stu

Greetings ReBearers! I have sadly not yet started the XVI DLC (fake fan, I know). It's just that every time I finish something in this god forsaken Rebirth game it tells me "There are new quests available in Gongaga!" and at this rate I'm starting to think I won't actually be done until Part 3 drops

Greeting, Sorcerers! I caught up on JJK this month so apologies in advance for the brainrot. No spoilers or anything, but a fun little thing I've noticed since getting into writing more is how whatever media I'm consuming at the time becomes the lens through which I see the world. Even in writing th

Greetings Hunters! I usually start these with a joke, but since it's April Fools Day I thought it'd be (not) funny to just stay completely serious this month. No jokes whatsoever! Just pure, raw, unfiltered sentimentality. It'll be fun! A Beautiful Dream It was 10 years ago today that I released the

Greetings Readers! Are you Ready to be Reborn? Reunited? Remade? Because I'm not! I've still gotta finish Re-Remaking before I can Rebirth so I'm scrambling to get this out so my entire Saturday doesn't Revolve around Remaking the same Reocks for the entire Remonth and if they keep Re getting in the

Greetings, travellers! Hope everyone's easing their way into the new year nicely. Me personally? My life rocks. Not in the fun "rock-and-roll" way mind you, but in the "everytime-I-close-my-eyes-I-see-the-zbrush-viewport-taunting-me-with-gradient-nothingness-while-framing-all-of-my-existential-dread

HAPPY NEW YEAR GAMERS!!! 🗣 Hope everyone had a good-ass holiday season and didn't snag any pesky viruses along the way! I took a break around Christmas to spend time with family while clearing out a bit of my backlog (BG3 rolled a critical success and Berserk has branded my very soul), but now I'm

Greetings, gamers! Time's weird. It feels like it goes by so quickly throughout the month, but the second I start writing these it slows back down. They force me to go back and really look at my progress, and even after those less productive months I always come away feeling a bit better about where

Happy belated spoopers everyone! 🎃 I enjoyed minimal spoops yesterday (aside from the dog getting out) but it was a great Spooptober overall! I went to a party as a goblin and while the mask was arguably the most painful thing my face has ever experienced, I persevered. Could everyone tell I was in

Howdy Gamers! I spent the first week or so finishing up some UI stuff before moving back to my arch-nemesis: level design. There's always a bit of an adjustment period when hopping between programming and art production, but environmental art has always been a particular pain point as it's simply so

Howdy Gamers! Just got back from FanExpo (which was fun) with con flu (which was less fun), so it's been a slower month than I would have liked. That said, FanExpo was great! I got to help my partner run her booth and bless her soul, she managed to do quite well for herself! I also snagged some prin

Greetings, Bearers! This month, I return to you a changed man. A better man. After saving the realm of Valisthea, I expected to return a hollow shell of what I once was—a lifeless being devoid of all hope and purpose in this world. But instead, in accepting my own truths, I became something much gre

If you're wondering why this is two weeks late—Clive. That is all. June was hell. Work-wise it actually went pretty well, but my soul was nearly broken by CONSTANT social commitments. One of which was a wedding but the other of which was a bachelor's party weekend that was 5.5 HOURS AWAY. Imagine a

Y'know what's crazy? I think we're in what might be one of the greatest years for video games literally ever. The last year I can think of that was this crazy would have to be 2017 with BotW, P5, Nier, etc. But now we've got Hi-Fi Rush, TotK, FF16, Jedi Survivor, Diablo 4, SF6, MK1, Tekken 8—ALL IN

Morning gamers. There is no joke to be made at this time—this is simply a Tears of the Kingdom waiting room. I guess I'll talk about Arby a bit but who even CARES when Ganondorf is waiting for us looking like THAT. I simply cannot compare! Architectural Anguish I started this month by making a simpl

What's up fellow citizens! It's once again tax season which means, as usual, I send my accountant a nice little email with all of my expenses and deductibles for the previous year. But there's another layer to these little "chats" we have. Do you know how hard it is to sound authentic? It's really h

Y'know Patreon's prompt for these posts says "Share what's new in your world" and the fact that I've been struggling with literally building my game's world for two months is making me not only feel called out but outright CHALLENGED, so fine, you win. I'll SHARE. Sharing What's New in My World What

Greetings adventurers! I want you all to know that I deadass spent an entire week this month modeling ROCKS. It wasn't too ROUGH, but it was a bit HARD at first. At one point I hit ROCK BOTTOM, so I had to get BOULDER—I had to find something more CONCRETE. After digging through the RUBBLE however, I

HAPPY NEW YEARS YA FILTHY ANIMALS! 🥂 Hope everyone had some banger holidays! I took a two week break to spend time with friends and family, do some music studies, and start setting up a new D&D campaign! It's funny because while I expected those last two to be a nice break from work, I ended up fin

❄🎄🎅🤶🎄❄ MERRY HO-HO GAMERS ❄🎄🎅🤶🎄❄ Okay we're still a month out but I could either do it next month and be late or this month and be early and considering that I've already been BLASTING Christmas music since mid-November, I'm down to be a little bit early :^) Anyways, let's get to it! Transfo

Happy (belated) Spoopers everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend and only cosplayed the finest of husbandos and waifus. My partner and I went as a Pikmin and Korok respectively, so naturally our slim spandex suits invoked nothing but the pure, unfiltered yearning of all who gazed upon us. Yahaha!

Hey folks! Honestly this post came out way longer than expected, so we've got no TIME for quippy intros. Give us the meats! Animation I spent most of August continuing to animate the last form. I'm still a bit behind where I want to be (due to those pesky art blocks), but I've made good progress sin

HOWDY GAMERS! This month begins the arc of "I'm going to be working on something secret so I'm gonna talk about random stuff each month instead of showing off actual progress." Exciting! It also began the arc of 3ds Max systematically breaking me down into a puddle of what I once was—my sense of sel

OH WHAT A GLORIOUS MONTH IT'S BEEN~ I finished up Omen's transformation and started planning out work for the Final Form ™. I had a lot of momentum coming out of Omen, so once I finished I got started on rigging the last form almost immediately. With progress like this, I could even start animating

HELLO THERE! It's once again time for me to talk about all the neat stuff I'm working on while showing off literally none of it! Okay fine, I might show off a LITTLE but only because I like you. Yes, you. Anyways I spent the month of June finishing up Omen's animations and starting to get him in-gam

WHAT'S UP GAMERS?! I've been blasting Elden Ring music all month and I'm still riding the high of that FFXVI trailer so apologies if I'm feeling a little LOUD. But anyways, let's talk about Arby! I spent pretty much the entire month working on our beloved edge-lord Omen and his animations! Overall I

Ahoy! Hope everyone's doing well as always. It's been a bit of a slow month again but it's all in preparation for fun stuff this month, so let's get to it! With the first two weeks of April I was able to pretty much finish up Scarlet's Form! That puts me at a little over 50% of the way done with Arb

Ahoy! Hope everyone's staying happy and healthy. It's been a long-ass month so apologies for this recap being a bit shorter than usual, but I've still got some fun stuff to talk about! I had some PC issues at the start of March which took up about a week of my time (which have since all been resolve

GREETINGS YE TARNISHED! PLEASE KNOW THAT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE WORK IN THIS UPDATE (AND EVEN WHILE WRITING IT) I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE SPENDING MY TIME VANQUISHING SHARDBEARERS AND EXPLORING THE GREAT REALM OF LIMGRAVE, HOWEVER, SUCH A QUEST REQUIRES SUSTENANCE AND SUSTENANCE CAN ONLY BE GAINED THROU

Greetings, gamers! ✨ Hope everyone's staying happy and healthy! It's crazy to think we're already a month into the new year, but alas, time's a devilish seductress that waits for no one. ...SPEAKING OF WHICH! I spent the month of January working on my own devilish seductress—only mine's named Scarle

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU WONDROUS DIVAS!!! 🥂 Once again I'll be rolling the December Recap into the Annual Recap to create a new, more powerful recap. Let's get to it! DECEMBER First off and most importantly, I hit Diamond in TFT. This is important because it means I am no longer Riot's slave and can pla

GOOD AFTERNOON BEAUTIFUL GAMERS AND GAMETTES!!! It's finally that time of year where I blast Christmas music and excitedly run around the house in my birthday suit. Pillsbury doughboy cookies fill the stomach and the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer plays on loop in the background purely for its

Good morning gamers! Hope everyone's doing well and got plenty spooped yesterday! I spent the day binging a horror show and while I didn't get tooooo scared (he says, face hidden under the covers), it did make every little ambient sound that night just that bit more unsettling. Oh I also carved a pu

Hey there gamers! Hope everyone's been doing well, as usual. Apologies for the late update—it's been a very exciting couple of months and I wasn't entirely sure what I could/couldn't share publicly. But now I know! The answer? Absolutely nothing! What I can say is that it's all good news, so no worr

Oh, I didn't see you there gamer! How's it hanging? Still gaming? Are ya winnin'? Of course you are, little rascal. *ruffles hair aggressively* Development for this month was... all over the place really. That said, I've mostly been focused on two things: enemy revisions and publishers/grants. For t

THE CRYSTALS MASON—WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?!? Ahem, hello! How are you? Oh really? No kidding?! I'm doing all right, thank you. I have an update to show you. Would you like to see? Come hither... I spent the first bit of the month working on destructible objects (specifically crystals). These will be sca

HAPPY BELATED PRIDE MONTH GAMERS!!! 🌈🌈 I hope everyone had a great June! Honestly all the environment stuff is kinda blending together so I'm not entirely sure "what" I worked on this month, but I have a bit of an idea. I spent a pretty good chunk working on WATER. I'm still experimenting style-wi

WHAT'S UP GAMERS?! Hope you're all well! I just got my first vaccine shot (#PfizerGang) so I'm about halfway there before I start feeling guilty for not going outside again. Can't wait. I spent the past month mostly working on different foliage and environmental assets, on top of minor bug fixes and