Status Update!

Hey Everyone! I wanted to drop some news on what's been going on.

First thing, I wanted to apologize for the long absence again without posting work and progress on anything. Even going silent in the discord server.

First thing: Health Stuff

I posted almost a year ago that I was dealing with major brain fog and just overall struggling to work creatively. At that time I was thinking it was a problem with a medicine I was taking because the issues seemed to clear up temporarily when I stopped taking the medicine. Well, it was definitely temporary and has just been steadily getting worse.

It was the strangest thing, just mentally declining steadily and losing my ability to focus or even really work on anything. It wasn't because I didn't want to work on the game anymore, I was constantly trying and was almost not able to for the most part, even being able to to just draw in general has disappeared. Apparently, I've been suffering from a big case of sleep apnea for years. I'm still working on seeing a specialist but am temporarily using a sleep mouth guard thing that has me actually waking up feeling rested. For years I pretty much would wake up and still be very tired. I'm starting to feel smarter again lol since I started using the sleeping guard and my mojo and drawing ability are returning in spades. This also explains why my updates kept getting harder and harder to do over the years and taking longer and longer :/

Second Thing: Twitter Stuff

A month or two ago, Twitter suspended my Voodoo Monkey account out of the blue and never gave me a reason. I've been appealing it since then, only getting the response from them that they won't restore my account and are leaving it at that.

I really didn't want to but bit the bullet tonight and made a new account. It's annoying because when they suspend an account, they black list your email and can't be used again for future accounts. Technically, they don't want you making accounts anymore even under other emails but hopefully I can go under the radar with that one.

I ended up creating two new twitters accounts. A SFW and an NSFW account. That way I'll have one that won't need to be censored and hopefully have better outreach, then a spicy one for your viewing pleasure.

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/voodoomonkey88

Please follow those accounts and spread the word if you could. I would greatly appreciate it.

Third Thing: Game Progress

Well, the update is still not done -_-

Still needs a lot of work and to help out, my GF actually wrote the entire script for this update because I was struggling so much with pressing forward. She wrote a pretty solid adventure for the Lyla and her little team of adventurers. I'm still working on assets for it as well and scene artwork and animations. Still a lot to do but the artwork for this is going to be banger. My skills have been steadily growing. Even though I've been struggling with really drawing hardcore, I still been constantly studying art and have been doing a lot of sketching in my notebook that I need to scan in.

Fourth Thing: You guys are amazing!

I just wanted to continue to thank everyone for still following me, and reaching out and trying to keep up with the game progress and everything. I appreciate it so much, and people still checking in on the server.

I still have a lot more trust to earn back but wanted to try and catch everyone up on everything!