This year started with me trying to finish my entry for Pixel Day (and ended up releasing it unfinished) and ended with me trying to get blender to work properly on my computer so I can give a proper go at 3D animation. I went from coding on scratch to picking up godot and making my first game in that program (that wasn't a prototype) for Pico Day. This was the first year where I really tried to put in more effort in participating in collabs, jams and competitions no matter how many other projects I had going on in the background. Hell, even now I've joined the writer's jam and are waiting for the themes to come out.

A list of every collab, jam and stuff that I did this year (and the links to all the details to said thing if you're curious):

• Pixel day
• Pico day (sorta did last year)
• Sketch collab (did last year)
• Secret santa (done ever since I joined in 2021)
• south park collab
• Deathink's horror game mashup art competition
• Halloween competition
• Costume jam
• Grimace shake collab
• Hatsune Miku's birthday collab (can't find the original post)
• Not a Newgrounds game jam, but a jam on itch.io called the 02A2 visual novel jam that I also uploaded the game onto here as well for consistency sake

I think that's all. I hope I haven't missed any out. I was planning on doing the most recent lunum dare but there was just so much going on at that period of time that I couldn't participate without driving myself insane.

Overall I would say my programming skills improved the most this year. Like I said earlier, I started this year using a modded version of scratch called turbowarp and now I know a decent amount in godot. I'm not a master at it, but I know enough for the types of games that I code.

Music is also another one that I think I've improved on. I've learned more about the DAW that I use, LMMS, and can do some fancy stuff with it like automatically making tracks louder and quieter and automatically changing the tempo. Also I'm a bit better at melodies and stuff because I started using scales and taking advantage of drums, and also because I make music quite frequently as I keep making tracks for my current project. I also started the compositions for my music GCSE this year so there's 2 of those.

I've gotten a bit better at voice acting because my current project is voice acted. My mic sucks but I'm getting a better one for Christmas.

So yeah that's basically it. I haven't used the blog feature much here ever since I moved most of my blogging stuff to tumblr, but this is special as it's mostly about Newgrounds (but I'll probably copy and paste it there too 'cause consistency). I have no idea what I'll do in 2024 apart from make that ddlc fangame idea that I have and also work on my main project.