Last weeks have been quite busy, as you may have noticed due to my lack of interaction with the community (if you ever noticed to begin with). Let's make a small recap to see what's happening in the backstage:

Who's That Pokemeat?

I was the one who developed the "Who's that Pokemeat?" guessing game for the Pokemon Mystery Meat Collab. That was during the whole of February, which consumed most of my time.

Where's the Recommended Artists #4 post?

Every installment takes like a month for me to gather enough motivation to make it a reality. Well, it's already been more than a month, and it still ain't finished. This wouldn't bother me a lot if it weren't for the fact it has been in schedule earlier than the "Who's that Pokemeat?" game. Some other projects have kept me busy, but I should seriously make the next installment if I really plan to be this cautious with my work, speaking of which...

Earth Day Collab

Earth day falls this April 22nd, as well as the collab i'm hosting. Fortunately, I've already got me an idea of what to do to showcase the arts of everyone. My only downside is i'm gonna need original music for it, so, if u are a musician and are interested, PM me, and I shall be forever grateful with you (I don't have money :p).

Boring things...

Outside of everything else, I have to deal with school. I also happen to have troubles with my parents. Nothing serious, is more bothering for them than for me, but still, those kind of problems mean time I don't use for funnier things. Fortunately, vacations are at the corner, so in like a week more, I will have plenty of time to do whatever I want, like focusing more on the delayed projects.

The arts of the "One char per day challenge" have kept my account alive and active fortunately, that's why this unactivity doesn't have me stressed. I hope to be more organized in the future so I don't have to spend a whole month without showing nothing to people (or at least have a better capacity to improvise through my necessities).

Now that I have my imaginary virtual coffee with me, I hope nothing astounding makes me spit it in surprise while I check my Newgrounds feed... AY, WTH? WHAT'S THAT?!

eleven thousand seven hundred nine views. I knew one day I'd reach such levels of view in any of my works, but damn, that's way too early! I ain't even that famous yet!

*spits the coffee and recomposes*

Now, let's be clear. I know these numbers are because of the Collab, after all, murderous animals, dangerous parents and pokemons are a good combination (apparently). Boxanne hasn't reached 10% of that views numbers yet. I'm still gonna feel proud of myself, specially considering I wasn't originally be part of the collab, but they decided I deserved to be a part of it. I wonder if the Earth Day Collab will reach a similar kind of success (I doubt it but only time can tell).

So, at this moment, "Who's that Pokemeat?" has been played 2,185 times, received 143 votes and gotten 36 favorites, as well as a 3.99/5 stars puntuation, which are already very satisfying statistics. However, something else has happened now:

Not only it got frontpaged (which is the first time something I make gets frontpaged), but it also got rewarded with Daily 2nd Place. Now, seeing it frontpaged was already fantastic, but I didn't brag about it since it probably got frontpaged because of the collab itself. The other thing, however, feels way more amazing, as not everyone gets that prize that easily. Even if was purely for the collab as well, feels good to know I was part of something people actually enjoyed a lot.

I hope future projects reach this level of recognizement, so expect more cool things in the future (of course, that will take more work, and thus, time, so patience is required).

I've been working in a game for a very long time, and I feel very tired. Not only that, but I also feel tired because of school (for nothing in particular, I just hate school). Understand "long time" as aprox. 2 or 3 weeks, there were probably more, but these are the ones related to productive time. This was due to bug fixes and uploads and some other things related to that work. At least you'll see it published in a few hours.

Speaking of bug fixes, I found out the reason why BOXANNE! ran at wrong speed for some people (is actually a very simple reason, and I feel kinda stupid for not knowing about that :p). I'm gonna update the game in the upcoming days for the future generations to enjoy. That's mostly it, if my next news post isn't a shitpost, a vent like this or the celebration for reaching 100 followers, will most likely be the Recommended Artists #4. See you around :3

It was fascinating. Bob Marley music was already hearth touching to me in some ways, but it's different when you know the story behind the songs... And even more when you actually feel these stories.

That movie made me think. I might have forgotten very long ago about the "meaning" in music. Even tho I can make music, I don't consider myself as a musician. Don't get me wrong, music has been a big part in my life; since I've had memory, music's always been there, directing my steps. Maybe in future weeks, I will think very deeply about my current direction, to find what this "meaning" for life really means to me

I'm 8 followers away of reaching 100 followers. That appears a minimal effort, but getting here hasn't been really easy. I've been through 4 months of consistent interaction with the community, without failing a day, and even tho it took a really long time, the effort really has paid of. You can't imagine how cathartic is to know that people find my routine interesting enough to follow me, whether they're here for my posts, my art, my music, my mood, or anything else.

I always use these kind of posts to thank all the people that follow me (those you see if you go to my fans tab). I do so to remind me constantly that whatever I do is never that significant if no one's there to appreciate my hard work, so i'm greatly grateful to every single one of you guys and guyettes (wut?).

But different to other times, I also want to thank those people that don't follow me, yet have made a difference in my life, directly or indirectly. I won't post any names right now (mainly because i'm writing this at 11 pm and I wanna go to sleep), but when I reach 100 I will probably make another post, more detailed than this one. But I want you to know for now, that for long I had abilities, resources and perspectives to make very cool works, but I was missing something important: motivation. Being part of a community like this has given me that, and more, and that's why I'll be forever grateful to everyone: they, them, you, specially you, thank you :))

(pd. you thought I was corny enough with this? wait 'til I get to 100 followers. In the meantime, have fun around, Ems out)

If you got it, you have my respect, for both a gamer and a winner in life

So I'm sharing you a curiosity. Did you know that if you look upwards and put your hand in front of your mouth like you were holding a bottle of salt, you will actually taste the salt in your tongue?

To not leave my account so dry, i'm gonna share some wips and advances of what I've been working on these days.

A funny NES like game

This one shouldn't take a lot to program. I expect it to be finished in a month or so.

Random stages that can be destroyed

Kinda like stages in Worms series. For now, I have some noise, if I manage to do a convincent algorithm, you might see something interesting in the upcoming months.

Kinbari is back to tying

What is that demented fairy up to now?

A nonsensing comic of nonsense, but i'm sure you'll like it

No, seriously. Is the kind of nonsense you'd expect from Madness, Hyperboy and maybe some Nickelodeon series.

A 3D plane?

This particular project is gonna be delayed. The original idea I had kinda turned complicated, not only to program, but to actually make funny, so I will have to make an analysis of it before going on.

Earth Day Collab Visualizer

Or whatever idea I get in the end. As I stated in the thread of the collab, if I get a very nice idea, I will work that instead of a visualizer.

Recommended Artists #4

I'm already picking the 5 stars of the next RA entry. As I said, there's no schedule; expect the unexpected

That's it!

Everything I have so far. You might argue i'm not working eficiently because of having many things up (and you're right), but that's how I like to work. If I spend too much time in the same thing, I die eventually die of boredom, or something in that direction. Anyway, i'm not worried about time either: these things will come out when they have to.

-See ya latering pal, Emiliano