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10/28
Hello all.. camera pans.. i finished the halloween game!!!! it took way too much effort and i ended it considering if i had any potential to ever be able to make anything good at all... but its done! a great number of bugs &typos and plotholes but a game is a game and it took me.. since august... so... i like to spend my life doing things.... things.. that may or may... not... be... .......
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..........................PLAY MY GAME! https://updog7.itch.io/camphorrors

10/2/2025
WOW!!!! happy halloween everyone (camera pans to void). best month of the year so i am PRETTY EXCITED.. but also PRETTY VERY BUSY.. trying to finish this game for halloween because its a halloween game and even if nobody plays it i'd still feel weird about working on and releasing a game in november.. and i really dont want to wait till next october.. so im trying to pick up the pace while also spending as much time as possible getting into the halloween spirit and watching horror movies and doing all my annual halloween traditions so there is a whole lot to do..

9/22/2025
WOW! happy fall everyone (camera pans to void) i've been slaving through hell that i hate and cant stand (senior year highschool) and also slaving through this new game.. basically its like what if there was an island with a bunch of scary classic halloween monsters on it escape from new york style and you were a weird looking overbred little dog sent away here all alone.. and you have to escape.. from it..? been working for like a month ish and its coming along decent except for the amount of times that i screw up the tilesets and have to redo then and rearrange everything.. but its GETTING DONE! my next ailment is a little project ive been wanting to work on.. Filmbert..! its about this haunted werewolf thats locked away in apartment666 cursed to write movie reviews while slowly losing his mind resident evil villager style.. i want it to be a webcomic but also maybe like a whole website roleplay blog multimedia thing??? but i suck at balancing projects so i might have to save that for next halloween (or maybe get ideas that arent just about scary halloween monsters haunting you). i think after looking at literally every idea i have i just really like settings where everyones comically hostile and always trying to kill you ( aotk... beau is afraid... courage the cowardly dog.. thats all i got)
tldr : skip highschool, never leave your room, chain yourself to your desk and have a safe with the key in it that only unlocks when you publish something, and have a lock on your room that never unlocks except for when you need to grab some food, but only after you publish something

8/11/2025

8/15/2025
new blog post i cant take it anymore end blog post

8/11/2025
sometimes it feels like the only way I can really lockdown on a project is if i spend the day before rotting in my bed and staring at my ceiling and just kind of squirming around and feeling guilty about it ... and then i'm always significantly more productive after that my workflow kind of goes like 0--> 100 --> 45 --> 10 --> 10 --> 10 --> 0................. -->>100. i think i might implement some kind of system to maximize all my efforts that'll 100% work. i've been jumping around a lot between things, its hard for me to even commit to a tiny little screw around thing without making it a giant lifes project thing in my mind BUT AS THEY SAY ALL OF LIFES GREATEST HURDLES LIES WITHIN YOUR OWN MADE UP MENTAL BLOCKS THAT AREN'T EVEN REAL

8/8/2025
first ever day of senior year, ever, today! it was okay! i got about 30 minutes of sleep and i fell asleep watching a mysterious lilith zone rpgmaker game and i'm thinking about maybe doing a wacky rpgmaker game.. i figured it'd be good because my total energy levels are probably going to dilute by like 50% and i know how to use it so i might as well right?????? i keep trying to pick it up and do something serious(ish) in it but then i always drop it because i get bored (///BECAUSE OF TILESETS///) but why not just churn out a shitty one real quick.. as long as i'm producing then i'm content. ^and heres a seperate note: been thinking of shelfing learning how to code for a number of reasons which include the following 1.i hate tutorials 2. i'm sick of following tutorials 3. i can't do this 4. i'm majoring in compsci so why even worry about it until the time when i have to worry about it all the time right! so instead of focusing on doing difficult hard things i should instead focusing on building up my creating skills in other areas like story/writing/stickingtoprojects/etcetectectetc so that way i can build these skills when i have time right now and don't have to just kind of dump that on top of knowing how to function:on key press space : if space is pressed = true character.animatechange frame4 move go =false if else then xyz coordinates 345 + 56 - 78 else character= variable.gth2=3 because i have PLENTY OF TIME FOR THAT IN MY FUTURE!!! even if by that time they just have coding robots that make their own video games in 5 seconds( ha ha see that new chatgpt wow!!! so cool so advanced!!! ha ha insane wow the future is wow haha so bright ) i think it's still something that's cool to know and i'm just curious about and i can spend a lot of time reflecting on that in 10 years in between my drug benders at the homeless shelter.. okay anyways i just want to make a little rpgmaker game. i need to stick to a project because i've started like 3 different ones. they're all ags games because i feel like i spent all that time getting the hang of it for my shitty p&c practice game just for me to not even make a slightly less shitty p&c game using the knowledge i've garnered from that.. but i can also say that about that time i spent like an hour watching rpgm youtube tutorials like 2 years ago and i don't even have a shitty rpgm game to show for THAT!!! so .... look forward to that in... time... thanks bog good talk

8/4/2025
ok i'm not doing this every day even though that's what the pattern appears to be here, but to be fair the first one was basically on the night of 8/1/25, so it's more like every other day except for the last 2. here are my thoughts tonight... thats what youre here for isnt it? the bog? thats what the bog wants right??? anyway i've been very stuck on the topic of "game engines" wow i hope nobodys reading this i'm way cringier than i thought i was

GAME ENGINES: WHAT ARE THEY, AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY?? A game engine is an engine a person who makes/tries/kids themselves about crafts a "video game"? what's a video game? Now alas that's a topic for another day... some game engines are a prefabrication, or what we in the gaming industry (what?) call a "Prefab"... you may know of a common one known as "RPGMAKER". it's where you make an rpg! i know my stuff what can i say!!! another one is for the retroheads everywhere who engage themselves in titular titles like "Space Quest" and "Space Quest 2" and "Space Quest 3" and "Space Quest 4" and "Spacequest 5 maybe???? and also "Monkey Island" and "Paul Moose in Space World" known as Adventure Game Studio. as of recent i've been tinkering around in Unity as a way to pay off the debt from the years i've wasted in my life by lying in my bed and goofing off and not trying to do anything, because now i'm trying all the time to do something and this IS EXHAUSTING WOW! WHO KNEW??? so after about a month of Unity (wow the dedication!!! wow!!! you're an inspiration to me!) i'm on Godot and wow this is way easier! I godot this! haha!!11!!!! that's all i have to say but i'm starting to believe there may come a time where i have to haul my ass to the library and pick up a LEARN C# QUICK FOR DUMMIES and rip that bandaid off and RIP my BOOKMARK out. finally, i feel like i should think of something thoughtful and introspective to say to offer a unique perspective to any really sad bored people i mean really nice cool people reading this. my lesson today is that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and you have to always believe that even if you haven't gotten to the point where you can do it yet, because you're me, and i still can't do anything, so you just really have to remember to keep believing in the first thing no matter what. also remember to be like me and always make sure to stare into the mirror for uncomfortable amounts of times and peer into your eyes and try to imagine what it'd look like to see the universe inside of them and to tell yourself, hey! the universe is inside me! i am part of the universe! i can do anything!

Sincerely, updognathan

8/3/2025
hi everybody! today i thought would be a good time to "post" into the "bog" today, i watched a movie some may known as "Creep 2" and then I drank "a lot of titos to take a moment to reflect on the intricacies of this film" now, i am "reflecting" by "bogging about it" i was so shocked when he did that!!! and then she did that:???? that ending, wow!!!! jeez i was sure taken for a ride!!!!!!!! Mark duplass you have done it again you crazy bastard!!!/tone indicator:playful

bog post over

8/2/25 hi everyone. this is my first bog post. this is just one example of the many more bogs to come..
in the future..
when i have something to talk about...................