I just realized I hit 600+ fans! Thanks everyone!

Little afterward about the mod, I guess! (Mod here / Gameplay here )

I literally spent all my free time working on it for the past ... 13-ish months? I think it took me a month to push out what initially ended up being the demo, then in between working on IvnyRose I worked on the levels, programming, and animation. I think animation officially started in November, but I had some early cutscene thoughts at least vaguely storyboarded since August. I also watched way more music theory and production videos (so much trap, ugh) on Youtube than I could really honestly estimate, picking up some rudimentary music theory over the course of about 10 months? Maybe 8-ish. I don't think anything *really* clicked until this past February but I was so knee-deep in getting the animations and some chunks of IvnyRose done that I really couldn't do much with the songs I made myself. They're not great but I think they're at least passable, which is basically the feedback I've seen here and there online. There's so many amazing people in the scene, I can't expect to compete, but at least I did ... something.

Speaking of Music, Anjer got me music like right after asking, as I had initially wanted to release a simple mod on Europ33nor Day, so I've been sitting on his amazing works for months!!! Teravex gave me the music closer to release, and my neverending patience combined with the delay to Piconjo day was what inspired me to do silly animated cutscenes in between songs instead of simpler things in the beginning. I just knew I could do it, so I took the challenge I gave myself. I didn't manage to do everything perfect, but I'm pleased with what I did. I never found anyone to compose for JoM's songs so he just ended up getting something by me, but I wanted to do vaguely Final Fantasy and purposefully terrible songs for Legendary Frog from the beginning.

There's a couple scrapped things; Tutorial has normal music but it takes place on a Newgrounds video page, but badly drawn. BF and GF who I stylized in such a way that the staged looked like flipaclip videos on a joke version of the site. I was gonna have another stupid song there and hide a little bit of story in it, but I just left it as-is because I just wanted to focus on the reset of the things. The "secret" song was just a scrapped song I had put together but left in for the heck of it. Is it an anti-reward? Yes. I had asked in .hax if anyone wanted to compose a song and that's so much more fun than what anything I could've done. The song t0mmy and Piconjo conjured up actually told enough of a story for me mentally that I completely based the entire stage on it, not the other way around. I still get a kick out of the absolute anti-payoff it does once you get past the spammy part. There's a stick variant of JoM, and the old blue cape Piconjo was unscrapped for the initial versions of the songs Anjer did. I think I left IvnyRose boyfriend in, and the Thank You hidden title screen that can't be triggered anymore. Ah well, there's always stuff left on the cutting room floor.

I might post up the cutscenes to the portal for those who aren't interested in the game to see what I had cooked up, but I don't have them compiled as a whole yet. I spent months animating them and I kind of want to archive them, but I'm just a bit hesitant.

Ah well.

Piconjo and IvnyRose took over well over a year of my life. With both of these chapters closed... I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself on my free time. Haha, what do people do for fun anymore? How do you waste time without some big project looming over your head to work on? Aaaaaa.

Additionally, I didn't end up finishing my Pico Day drawing and I'm not sure I can finish it on time, so I'm not sure I'll have anything cool for the day. (´。＿。｀)