Game Journal #120.5 - The Return of 3D?!

Hey all! Welcome back to my game journal series. This one's a little small since I only really did one thing this week, but it's a pretty big one!

And that is...

Yes, I finally got back into 3D modelling.

I KNOW, I KNOW, I said it 50 million times, "Next week I'll do 3D stuff," and I never ended up doing it. Until now!

I got feedback on my game and I was told, "The first level is pretty empty," which it is. And I KNEW it was. But my distaste for 3D runs deep, so I kept putting it off. Why's my game in 3D if I hate it, you ask? Because I'd rather do 3D than sprites. If I had to draw the environments AND everything else, I would finish the game when I'm 30. 3D is fast but annoying. Ugh.

How I feel EVERY time I open up Blockbench

On the bright side, I've been CRAZY productive this week. The temperatures here are finally consistently in the 70s and 80s and it feels like straight up summer. I had no idea how much of a nerf cold weather brought on me until it was warmer. I drew so much this week and did a ton of stuff! I feel like I have so much more energy and I'm much happier too. Cold weather is the world's biggest gains goblin.

I also decided (on a whim) to make a parody of a Japanese song with Guilty Gear characters. I've always been self conscious about how I sound, but I decided to go for it anyway. I partly wanted to practice my Japanese, and partly wanted to see if I could sing (sorta?) I don't think it's good enough for my game, but as a hobby it's kinda fun. Anyways, it was received really positively, which surprised me. My Japanese friends also enjoyed it, which was kinda cool!

Yeah, having a deeper voice kinda paid off. Lol.

Other than that, not much happened this week. But, next week? Oh yeah, definitely a TON of 3D. And I mean it this time. I might just do all the NPCs, we'll see. It took me about a day to do one, so I can possibly do the rest by next journal. Then I can finally get rid of all the placeholder models!

Here is a video of me going in depth on the model.