Being happy or being not sad are not the same thing. Avoiding sadness is a signal of survivalism, someone trying to be safe and sound for another morning. Being happy is a symptom of living your life, a feeling that means "surviving isn't enough, we must feel alive". Animals can also show happiness, thus, animals also know how to live their lives (in their own terms) aside from just surviving, and that's (curiously) a sign of humanity. Are you feeling happy, or you're just not being sad?

just making some funny experiments for the future :)))

Because I like to think people like to know about my future projects and current situation

First of all, school. I'm practically a week away to finish with this school semester, just gotta deliver the last projects and do the last exams and I'll be free for two weeks, until next semester. During these weeks I'll go on a vacation to Europe, more specifically to Italy regions. I don't quite remember the places since my parents were the ones organizing the travel, I expect to make some news post during those weeks to share about the things I see during my travel.

Boxanne 2

I started making this game a while ago, and I even had already written a story for it, however, I had to re-write it because, with further analisys I determined that was not the kind of story for Boxanne, and had to change various things. Fortunately, the changes didn't affect the game's technical progress, so things should keep moving smoothly, I wonder if I can make big improvements this week to share any WIP or something. I've also made some music for it, been having lots of inspiration for the music lately. Meanwhile, have Boxanne's sprite :))

Kinbari series

The bizarre blue fairy has been quite "asleep" for a while. I've been interested for a long while about exploring Kinbari's past, but my main issue has been which media use to do so: So far, I've been exploring Kinbari's lore through the art I've done of her, but I wonder if it would be better to do a comic, an animation or even a game to go further. Although I haven't done none, I also know a bit of animation, so I can explore that area too, however I already have an interesting game idea for Kinbari which, either with or without lore would be interesting to make (it would be considered after finishing Boxanne 2 obviously), but comics would be way easier to do than the others (although I have certain doubts with the comic format), if you have any opinions on this theme, let me know in the comments.

Nora's future

Although not as popular as Boxanne or Kinbari, Nora B. Amsterdam has been one of my concurring chars lately. My main issue with Nora currently is most of her stories tend to be either M or A rated, I don't have an issue with these stories being mature, however, I tend to draw based in whatever I feel like in a given moment, so these mature stories usually come when i'm feeling "horny enough" (I know that sounds awkward). It's possible that in the future I start exploring other possibilities with Nora, such as her pianist side, or maybe more of her life as an actress through comics, although I'm not sure how much more will I be able to take advantage of Nora's role before "letting her go", guess only time will decide.

Nitainaga Island

In case you didn't see it when it came out, I shared a game some time ago, called Nitainaga Island, and is right here:

I started making it as an experiment: I wanted to simulate the style of an NES game, with all the complexities that implies. The success of the game in terms of statistics was moderated, and I didn't think a lot on it after I finished it, however, I've gotten lots of new ideas in the past months to start taking advantage of Nitainaga Island's world. With that said, I'm not planning on making some kind of complex lore story or having huge development on story elements; my ideas are mainly focused on game experiments that can take advantage of this game's elements. It will certainly take a while for you to start seeing these ideas flourish, but I believe it's good to make this smol update just to let ya know what will I be up to in the upcoming months.

New projects?

Before I came to Newgrounds, I already had big amounts of chars I made from my childhood to my adulthood. Practically all of these chars eventually died due to the shift of my interests in other areas, but in the last days I've been returning to these older ideas to see if there's anything I can rescue for interesting experiments in the future. So far I have a smol list of candidates, and if any of them gets my "quality seal", you may see something new in the upcoming weeks (probably a drawing).

Let's call it a day for now

This post became larger than I wished it to be, but I guess updates aren't always that small (specially when you experiment a lot like me). If you have something to share about what I said here or you just feel like shitposting, feel free to tell it to me in the comments. Honestly, after the Toybox Collab success, my account has seen a smol (but valuable) growth, and that makes me feel more than satisfied for now. I'm going to sleep, but before that, as always, I wish you to have a happy week, month, year, and century!

-Sweet dreams and exciting nightmares, Emiliano :))

I've reached 281 followers!!!! OMG a milestone, this is so amazing, best moment in my whole life wow!!

Why am I celebrating this? because why wait for the 300th follower when every new follower is as important as the previous one. 281 followers means 281 people who saw something I made and thought "hey, this guy is interesting enough, I wanna see what else will he share in the future". Every new follower is a milestone, always

Hello, hope you're doing great. This last week has sure been wild for me, but fortunately things will start to boil down a bit. First of all (and most important), the Toybox Collab, in which I was working as the programmer for, is now released, and is right here for you to enjoy ;)

Second, I'm almost finished with this college's semester, which means I'll have more time to roam around free and calmly. Having finished with Toybox Collab means I will be back to drawing and doing other things (that's mainly why I wasn't as active as before).

That would be mostly it, I know I don't make massive incredible news posts, but whatever, I write whatever I feel is really important (or funny). See ya around and have a good century!!

-Emiliano :))

Boxanne 2, a new Kinbari comic and the Nitainaga Island sequel was just released today, yes! today April 1st, go check 'em in my account! I'm sure you'll love 'em and remember this April 1st like the best April 1st forever!

No, he's not a ghost, although everyone thinks it is, but who cares. I wanna read your most creative response, what do you think is Ems actually? :)

I finished one of my college homeworks: an acrilic painting of 7 of my characters with the colors of the rainbow. I know the painting is missing Indigo (ROYGBIV), I replaced it with Pink, the teacher gave us that option (and I like pink, if you haven't noticed :b)

Good evening. It's been a while since I last published something. School is a b*tch, and even more is homework, but whatever, in a few weeks i'll be on vacations which means FREEEEDDDOOOMMM!!!. Meanwhile, I'll have to wait and suffer. To make wait less painful, tell me, have you seen any cool movie lately? I wanna watch a movie, for some reason I decided to rewatch the Open Season saga. Well, see ya around ;)))

We're at mid-March, and April is at the corner. Among many other things, this also means Earth Day is almost here. Earth Day takes place on April 22nd, although we should celebrate earth and it's unique beauty every day of our lives. If you were on Newgrounds a year ago, you probably remember a collab I hosted to celebrate Earth Day, which was an absolute success. Well, this post isn't to talk about a new collab to celebrate Earth Day: this year won't be an Earth Day Collab, at least not from me. I really thought about hosting another collab for this festivity (and even developed many ideas of what to do), but reality is school has been painful for me, I have other things to worry about my life, and I already have things to work for, both in and out of NG. Basically, as much as I'd like to host another Earth Day Collab on NG, I have to give priority to the boring but more important things of my life.

But hey, that I can't host the collab myself doesn't mean anyone shouldn't try it. I'm not forcing anyone into doing an Earth Day Collab themselves, but it would be pretty cool to see anyone trying something of the kind, or at least some sort of minor project for that day, you know, a minor artwork or animation or something (at least that's what i'm planning to do for that day)