2023 Blog Post

Hey everyone. If you're reading this, welcome to my website.
I don't update this often, but its currently 9:30pm on 12/31/23.
heh. funny. 123123.


For those who don't know me, i am a game developer. I make music, 3d model, and a learning artist.
I have a full time job, and i do this on the side for fun :)

Honestly, 23 is the best year so far. Reason? The year is nothing but positives.

Getting promoted at my job, getting into underevent... Making new friends and well, my game and UTE2!

With game development and being the 'director', there's a lot of writing and organization. With me doing a whole rewrite at the moment, its crazy to see how far it came from just initial ideas. Even then, my job currently as crew leader, being director would be impossible. My job has taught me many lessons on how to lead and delegate amongst my team.
I understand that i have to be the leading charge to get things done. 

Lets talk about something recent, shall we?

UNDERTALE EVENT                                2!

Man was that so fun to be apart of. Me and 3 others came together under a span of a little over a month to create something to be proud of. Nearly every night id come home from work excited to hop on discord to just laugh and have fun working on UTE2. During the early part of developing UTE2, I pulled up blender and i was just like:
"You know what, im going to try and model mini gaster."

We joked about it first, and something clicked that this is something we needed.

And then later, i made the mini g rap song, and the team was hesitant on adding it. I directed, edited, and wrote the entire thing. I also animated and video edited it too. At first they were like "oh we can upload it seprately as a bonus content thing." But i pushed, and boy does it feel good that everyone enjoyed it. I feared that the jokes i came up with during the video wasn't going to land, or people wern't going to enjoy. But i was wrong, and im happy everyone proved me wrong.

And whats even funnier that i was suprised with, was the voice acting. I was told they liked my voice acting. I recorded mini gaster and gaster in ONE TAKE. 20 minutes before work with my phone. I knew that i wanted gaster to speak clearly (what i consider clearly lol) and yell. But didnt want to yell at home. I felt like the recording quality couldve been better. 

Oh yeah, the other elephant in the room. (why is there two elephants in my room?)

UNDEREVENT.

This is what also peaked my year of 23.
Just the fact that i had so much fun being in underevent makes my year.
Working with octo, rusty, and haterjuice.
Real quick: thank you haterjuice for being the one to help me get into underevent.
at first it felt daunting, but meeting some of the coolest people in the UT community really made me feel at home.
as well as to thank you, Octo! While i know im just another director you worked with among the other 30, thank you for helping me making my trailer for the event. I seriously don't know how i could've make something together without the help.

With the DRID trailer for underevent, im glad and estatic that people enjoyed the trailer. I did something right.
People saying expo is mike is funny to me. I saw one person realize that expo's head is a white board, and the other dances to the music i made?! it made me laugh so hard ngl.
Don't let me watch the reaction videos / live streams of underevent. I just skip to my trailer and become super hyper seeing their reactions. DONT LET ME WATCH IT

hold on ill be right back. I wanna see brandon dance to my music again.

ok im back. it was funny.

While i don't want to spoil / reveal of whats going on with DRID, (deltarune: Internal Demons), what i will say is that were undergoing a whole rewrite. Its crazy to see how much is 'changing' which isn't even the right word. More of as improving. Its like getting your favorite sub from subway but finding out you can add more things to it, and you enjoy it MORE. While im doing this rewrite, im ensuring that the orginal vision isn't loss. Like redesigning characters but ensuring that they feel like the same character. 
and with that, i wanted to leave you all if your interested with drid something to look forward to.
Im working on something that i plan on releasing around... march / april.
its DRID related, however its something SEPERATE of the game.
Like... a 3D animation?

tee hee hee i won't say much more.
at some time around mid feburary or so i want to release a teaser / trailer.
until next time!

 - Directal