03/05/25

Hello everyone!

so in all honestly i have no idea what counts as a real blog as i've never really had to make one but i guess i just wanna share my thoughts on things i like or what's going on in my life or some strange third thing that my brain can't quite think of at the moment

so to start off with last year i spent alot of time working on a streamer overlay, i was getting annoyed at the bloat of sources that was piling in my obs scenes and i had growing interest in streams where the streamers had really cool stuff possible through their overlay, like interactions with a world or spawning stuff or even full blown minigames, etc, this was mainly due to flyann with they're cool ds style cutesy slime game that you can interact with and tyjiro for making a cool world that can be explored and messed with. these two made me inspired to make my own overlay like they did using a game engine with plugins that connects to twitchs api. I had big hopes for my overlay planning to make it have many features for chatters to use and a world that could add character to my streams. so i picked up godot, learned it scripting language and spent 6 months making... what i essentially had originally, it had the twitch redeems in, i had a movable pngtuber and it had follow notifications. i'll be honest i was dissapointed at what was there but i did fall into some traps, the major one being scope creep, what i wanted was a lot of work for one person, i had to design, model and script everything by myself, work was slow and every month or two i would make things simpler till i had a bare minumum version, honestly i could have kept my time to make the full version i wanted and am still doing so months later but i fell into another problem of stopping streaming to work solely on it as i had a complete redesign and theme to my streams. i had felt this need to have a big redebut, this was silly and i now prefer lil to small updates that the community can enjoy over time instead but i ended up feeling really guilty making people wait on me to comeback to essentially the same thing, that was practically rushed. The people who watch my streams are very nice though and were very encouraging with it. now since then i took some time off it then rewrote it to be more stable and easier to manage and am now working slowly to making it in 3d which is something i very much look forward too!

i also plan to potentially write in my projects section on how i implemented some of the twitch api into godot since i honestly struggled alot at finding good resources on it

honestly i don't really have much to talk about, currently i've been having an artblock and have been struggling to draw though i plan on working to fix it soon as i wish to upgrade my vgen page and work on posting on socail media more which i'm terrible with i am a hermit who likes to keep everything he makes to himself and i should share more of what i'm working on which i guess that's what this website's all about huh

anyway i hope you all have a great day and i hope this was somewhat interesting to read