I did the same thing last year and I think this is going to be some kind of annual thing in December now. I started this trying to make a 3D model to try it out as I wanted to try 3D animation, and ending with me being about 3/4 away from finishing my first album with vocals. I tried doing a crap ton this year which is why I haven't really done much as turns out that leads to something called "burnout" which I'm running for my life to avoid but I keep slowing down because "oooooo cool collab on the NGAP discord server!".

A list of every collab/jam that I did this year:

• Pixel Day (did last year)
• Sketch Collab (done since 2022)
• Secret Santa (done since 2021)
• Itch Godot Game Jam
• Itch Pixel Game Jam
• Itch Lospec Jam
• Wii Art Collab
• Halloween competition
• The Nemgrounds Brainrot Scam Ad Collab that's still not out
• Battle Of The Bands
• NGAP Megacollab
• Radio Collab
• Art Inspired Music Competition
• Pride Month Collab
• Black And Orange Collab that's not out yet
• Sandwich Collab
• Voice Acting thing for UnculteredMutt from the NGP Discord Server that's not out yet
• Voice Acting thing for BoiledMilkz
• Voice Acting thing for a fanganronpa I found on Discord (not sure if I got a role yet though)
• Voice Acting thing that I'm doing later today
• The NGAP Cinematic Collab that I haven't started yet
• The NGAP Terraria Collab that I haven't started yet but I'm doing the windy one

...Y'know...I'm starting to see why I think I'm on the edge of getting burnt out because on top of that I was doing my GCSEs (very important British exams), the album that I stated earlier and work on the DDLC fangame I mentioned in the 2023 post that I haven't worked on properly for a few months now as I got sidetracked. I was also trying to make stuff earlier this year for Redbubble and I kinda forgot about that.

The most notable thing I did online this year was probably changing my username from "PearlHikara" to "RosieUV" as I made that name when I was 13 and it's a version based of a name of my old YouTube channel I made when I was 12 and it's cringe so I came up with the much cooler "Rosie Ultraviolett" that people at my college call me in real life because that was my name on Snapchat :'). I also changed my icon and logo and basically did a whole changing thing to look cooler.

In terms of improvement stuff: I finally moved onto Godot 4 and figured out how Dialogic 2 works (it's so much better than 1) and I made my first 3D game (that wasn't a Roblox game), I found out what EQ and automation tracks are, figured out the power of line widths, moved onto OpenToonz, uhhhhh other stuff. I want to go pirate FL Studio once I finish my album as LMMS is starting to feel limiting, especially in comparison to Logic Pro, which is what I've been using in my music tech BTEC class.

I also started uploading all my old art onto Cara, moved my website from carrd.co to neocities.org so I could make it from scratch with HTML and not have to rely on boring templates. I'm currently re-making the website from scratch to look all cool and stuff and that's my main focus currently as I want to make a 2025 channel trailer for my YouTube and I mentioned it in the script. I've been trying to take YouTube more seriously, especially now a bunch of people from my college have subscribed and I'm at 86 or something ridiculous like that. I have plans to put dev logs and other not really animation stuff on there. I made a Bluesky earlier this year after I heard about all the Newgrounds people migrating from Twitter to that website.

So yeah that's basically it. I suspect I'll spend 2025 making that DDLC fangame and releasing my album, and then 2026 will be that fanganronpa I came up with earlier this year but still don't have all the details for each chapter sorted out (mainly because I don't write anything down and I really should). I'm trying to do less collab stuff for a while so I have more time to focus on personal projects, but I know that's bullshit and the 2025 recap post is going to be twice as long as this with a sarcastic introduction.

At least I pretty much have reached endgame with my setup. Almost 5 years ago I was drawing on an iPhone 5C with crappy earphones mics and now I have this cool new desk from my bedroom redesign that can fit this 5:4 monitor I got off Ebay for 30 quid (it's some Dell monitor from 2008 that works great as a secondary screen), and these cool Audio-Technica wired headphones I got for Christmas. He doesn't know my socials so he probably won't see this, but thanks dad!

woooooooooooooo number go wheeeeeeeee

it's also cool how on newgrounds you can see everyone who follows you

such is the life of dopamine hits when numbers on a screen go wheeeee

i probably just suck at stuff though, let's be honest. cause like there's artists here that are very good and it only takes them a few pieces to get popularity and there's no algorithm so the fault's on my end :/

still gonna chuck stuff here though. i like newgrounds.

...i should go to sleep

how many votes is that? like 2500 things? i know i've done more votes than that but you only get 10 xp max per day which i think is annoying but i guess it stops the grinders.

I drew this in about half an hour. I was going to do something more complex but I don't have enough time as I'm going to a carvery (roast dinner buffet) soon so I pumped out this crap because why not. I share a birthday with Ibuki Mioda so that's why she's there. The drawing is me in my current state (yes I wore a tie to college) because I don't really have a set design for myself yet as my hair keeps getting longer and my teeth keep not having braces. Yeah that's it. 1 more year and I can open a PayPal account.

Probably going to take a break from social media in the new year once I'm finished with all the smaller projects I'm doing currently as I feel like if I don't then I'll get burnt out and depressed and stuff. I'm going to try to stop doing as many collabs and game jams and stuff so I have less to work on so I can focus more on my main project: DDLH. Currently I'm making my album, doing the vocals and lyrics for someone in the battle of the bands competition, both the cinematic collab and the terraria collab on the newgrounds audio portal collab centre, making drawings for a youtube video I have planned and I have another idea for early 2025 but I don't have to do that right now so I'm not counting it and also college work. The collabs have deadlines (apart from the terraria one for some reason) and I'm almost finished the drawings and my album (most of the music is done) so by the time January hits I should be less busy so I can just not log on to Discord, not touch Bluesky or Tumblr (probably still go on Newgrounds though as I'm part of the monthly voting so I like to stay up to date but I won't post anything) and I can just chill, play my backlog of games and do some random drawings and try not to lose myself for a week. Then I'll have more motivation to continue on DDLH and I'll try to not do anything else until that game is finished, which might be hard as it's quite long but god damn I get distracted easily.

In other news I'm going to a carvery on Wednesday for my 17th birthday and I'm baking my cake tomorrow. It's a chocolate hedgehog cake I got from the children's section of a cookbook.

...damn it I should've gotten blue food colouring.

Going out to parties? Nah, I spent my halloween dealing with OpenToonz so I could get my animation out in time for the NG Halloween Spooktacular.

...god my life is sad lol.

So uhhhhh...https://bsky.app/profile/rosieuv.bsky.social

yeah

short stuff there, long stuff here or tumblr depending on what it is

thanks to the person on the other post which sent me the link to the newgrounds starter pack.

I've seen a lot of people here recently moving over to Bluesky, and I fucking hate Twitter with all my heart so I was wondering if it'll be worth it or would it just get too confusing?

For context: the only social media websites I open up daily are Newgrounds and YouTube (and I guess Discord and Snapchat if you stretch the definition, but all the servers I'm active in are Newgrounds ones and my college's unofficial one, and my college's unofficial Snapchat story), but I already have a Tumblr account which I also post art onto, and Cara which I'm currently in the process of uploading all of my old art onto to have 1 big portfolio but I don't use the website outside of that yet.

I read in a forum post here that Bluesky is good for game dev and artist stuff and if this does take off, then I was wondering if it would be worth it as a way to get my name out, or would it just end up being another website I navigate to whenever I upload a new piece of art (I always upload my art here first and then copy and paste the commentary bit to Tumblr when I upload it there and idk if 3, eventually 4 when I catch up with cara, is overkill). Also I have made Tumblr blogs on my big projects and idk how that would transfer to a site like Bluesky.

I remade the entire game in Godot 4 and converted all the animation videos into OGV files so now there should be no issue with the animations bugging out! There's also that little menu at the beginning and everything has been scaled to 1080p so if the sprites look a little low quality, that's why.

YouTube video of the update