May 2026

Another month of the year 2026.

Games

Video games recently played:
- [ PC ] Misc Cabela’s Hunting Games : Playing these as part of research for a potential future project. Want to make something about ( or inspired by ) humanity’s relationship with animals and ecosystems. Something about the boundary between survival and exploitation or whatever the fuck. Basically some kind of hunting sim, but with obnoxious philosophical bullshit and observations and whatever.

- [ PC ] Bobo Bay : Finally, Chao Garden without the Sonic.

Moving Pictures

Things that I have watched recently:
- [ Film ] When the Wind Blows : Anti-war film about an elderly British couple preparing for nuclear war, and experiencing the aftermath. Combines hand-drawn animation with dioramas and stop-motion.

Artwork

Working on [ Salamander Isles ] again, got quite a bit of progress done. I am hoping to have it in a shareable state before the end of the year ( shareable does not mean complete, though. )

Made a drawing of a [ lizard. ]

Not participating in Art Fight this year, too much work to do.

Kinda wanna create a 3D recreation of the environments from the canceled Creatures 3D ( planned fourth main game in the Creatures A-Life games, not to be confused with Creatures Online that was being developed by Fishing Cactus. ) using the info provided in the design documents. Could be a fun project, but Salamander Isles is first priority.

Also have idea for a Blender Game Engine shareware project inspired by Furcadia that is meant to be modified by people who share it by adding their own room / world to it. Definitely some risks with such a project but very much a “ download / play at your own risk “ sorta thing. I think such a project would work well with Blender Game Engine, as those adding onto it can just add their world as it’s own .BLEND file, then adding a portal to the main .BLEND that opens the new .BLEND file they added. A template .BLEND file containing basic assets would be provided for constructing worlds. This is just an idea, I haven’t started work on such a project and no idea if I will. Just writing down ideas so I don’t forget.

Settled on a name for my [ fantasy / sword and sorcery setting ] : Lunar Mother. So might get around to creating a project page for it at a later time ( Salamander Isles takes place in this setting, though is a bit more cartoony / silly. )

That is all the words for now,
bye-bye.

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