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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2023

Happy belated spoopers everyone! 🎃

I enjoyed minimal spoops yesterday (aside from the dog getting out) but it was a great Spooptober overall! I went to a party as a goblin and while the mask was arguably the most painful thing my face has ever experienced, I persevered. Could everyone tell I was in pain? Absolutely. But what are social ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2023

Howdy Gamers!

I spent the first week or so finishing up some UI stuff before moving back to my arch-nemesis: level design. There's always a bit of an adjustment period when hopping between programming and art production, but environmental art has always been a particular pain point as it's simply something I don't have a lot of experience ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2023

Howdy Gamers!

Just got back from FanExpo (which was fun) with con flu (which was less fun), so it's been a slower month than I would have liked. That said, FanExpo was great! I got to help my partner run her booth and bless her soul, she managed to do quite well for herself! I also snagged some prints and other goodies while I was there, s...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2023

Greetings, Bearers!

This month, I return to you a changed man. A better man. After saving the realm of Valisthea, I expected to return a hollow shell of what I once was—a lifeless being devoid of all hope and purpose in this world. But instead, in accepting my own truths, I became something much greater. I became inspired.

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2023

If you're wondering why this is two weeks late—Clive. That is all.

June was hell. Work-wise it actually went pretty well, but my soul was nearly broken by CONSTANT social commitments. One of which was a wedding but the other of which was a bachelor's party weekend that was 5.5 HOURS AWAY. Imagine a supposed "good friend" asking so much o...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2023

Y'know what's crazy? I think we're in what might be one of the greatest years for video games literally ever. The last year I can think of that was this crazy would have to be 2017 with BotW, P5, Nier, etc. But now we've got Hi-Fi Rush, TotK, FF16, Jedi Survivor, Diablo 4, SF6, MK1, Tekken 8—ALL IN ONE YEAR?? I'M STILL SITTING HERE HELPING ADD...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - April 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - April 2023

Morning gamers. There is no joke to be made at this time—this is simply a Tears of the Kingdom waiting room. I guess I'll talk about Arby a bit but who even CARES when Ganondorf is waiting for us looking like THAT. I simply cannot compare!

Architectural Anguish

I started this month by making a simple testing area with some of the...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - March 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - March 2023

What's up fellow citizens! It's once again tax season which means, as usual, I send my accountant a nice little email with all of my expenses and deductibles for the previous year. But there's another layer to these little "chats" we have.

Do you know how hard it is to sound authentic? It's really hard! That's why I use exclamation points ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - February 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - February 2023

Y'know Patreon's prompt for these posts says "Share what's new in your world" and the fact that I've been struggling with literally building my game's world for two months is making me not only feel called out but outright CHALLENGED, so fine, you win. I'll SHARE.

Sharing What's New in My World

What's poppin' gamers. I spent most o...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - January 2023

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - January 2023

Greetings adventurers! 

I want you all to know that I deadass spent an entire week this month modeling ROCKS. It wasn't too ROUGH, but it was a bit HARD at first. At one point I hit ROCK BOTTOM, so I had to get BOULDER—I had to find something more CONCRETE. After digging through the RUBBLE however, I finally got there. I became what...

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Arbiter - Annual Recap - 2022

Arbiter - Annual Recap - 2022

HAPPY NEW YEARS YA FILTHY ANIMALS! 🥂

Hope everyone had some banger holidays! I took a two week break to spend time with friends and family, do some music studies, and start setting up a new D&D campaign! 

It's funny because while I expected those last two to be a nice break from work, I ended up finding a lot of parallels...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - November 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - November 2022

❄🎄🎅🤶🎄❄ MERRY HO-HO GAMERS ❄🎄🎅🤶🎄❄

Okay we're still a month out but I could either do it next month and be late or this month and be early and considering that I've already been BLASTING Christmas music since mid-November, I'm down to be a little bit early :^)

Anyways, let's get to it!

Transformat...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2022

Happy (belated) Spoopers everyone! 

Hope you all had a great weekend and only cosplayed the finest of husbandos and waifus. My partner and I went as a Pikmin and Korok respectively, so naturally our slim spandex suits invoked nothing but the pure, unfiltered yearning of all who gazed upon us. Yahaha!

Animation

I...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2022

Hey folks!

Honestly this post came out way longer than expected, so we've got no TIME for quippy intros. Give us the meats!

Animation

I spent most of August continuing to animate the last form. I'm still a bit behind where I want to be (due to those pesky art blocks), but I've made good progress since then and can comfortably...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2022

HOWDY GAMERS!

This month begins the arc of "I'm going to be working on something secret so I'm gonna talk about random stuff each month instead of showing off actual progress." Exciting! 

It also began the arc of 3ds Max systematically breaking me down into a puddle of what I once was—my sense of self, shattered. Was Max alway...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2022

OH WHAT A GLORIOUS MONTH IT'S BEEN~

I finished up Omen's transformation and started planning out work for the Final Form ™. I had a lot of momentum coming out of Omen, so once I finished I got started on rigging the last form almost immediately. With progress like this, I could even start animating the next form within the same week! Coo...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2022

HELLO THERE!

It's once again time for me to talk about all the neat stuff I'm working on while showing off literally none of it! Okay fine, I might show off a LITTLE but only because I like you. 

Yes, you.

Anyways I spent the month of June finishing up Omen's animations and starting to get him in-game! As of right...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2022

WHAT'S UP GAMERS?!

I've been blasting Elden Ring music all month and I'm still riding the high of that FFXVI trailer so apologies if I'm feeling a little LOUD. But anyways, let's talk about Arby!

I spent pretty much the entire month working on our beloved edge-lord Omen and his animations! Overall I'd say it's been g...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - April 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - April 2022

Ahoy! Hope everyone's doing well as always. It's been a bit of a slow month again but it's all in preparation for fun stuff this month, so let's get to it!

With the first two weeks of April I was able to pretty much finish up Scarlet's Form! That puts me at a little over 50% of the way done with Arbiter's transformation system at ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - March 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - March 2022

Ahoy! Hope everyone's staying happy and healthy. It's been a long-ass month so apologies for this recap being a bit shorter than usual, but I've still got some fun stuff to talk about!

I had some PC issues at the start of March which took up about a week of my time (which have since all been resolved, thankfully). I also had to do my taxes...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - February 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - February 2022

GREETINGS YE TARNISHED! PLEASE KNOW THAT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE WORK IN THIS UPDATE (AND EVEN WHILE WRITING IT) I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE SPENDING MY TIME VANQUISHING SHARDBEARERS AND EXPLORING THE GREAT REALM OF LIMGRAVE, HOWEVER, SUCH A QUEST REQUIRES SUSTENANCE AND SUSTENANCE CAN ONLY BE GAINED THROUGH THRIVING IN ONE'S DAY TO DAY LIFE, SO ALAS, ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - January 2022

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - January 2022

Greetings, gamers! ✨

Hope everyone's staying happy and healthy! It's crazy to think we're already a month into the new year, but alas, time's a devilish seductress that waits for no one.

...SPEAKING OF WHICH!

I spent the month of January working on my own devilish seductress—only mine's named Scarlet! Or... Scarlet-Ashe. As...

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Arbiter - Annual Recap - 2021

Arbiter - Annual Recap - 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU WONDROUS DIVAS!!! 🥂

Once again I'll be rolling the December Recap into the Annual Recap to create a new, more powerful recap. Let's get to it!

DECEMBER

First off and most importantly, I hit Diamond View Post

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - November 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - November 2021

GOOD AFTERNOON BEAUTIFUL GAMERS AND GAMETTES!!!

It's finally that time of year where I blast Christmas music and excitedly run around the house in my birthday suit. Pillsbury doughboy cookies fill the stomach and the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer plays on loop in the background purely for its historical ARTISTIC MERIT. Occasionally, ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - October 2021

Good morning gamers! 

Hope everyone's doing well and got plenty spooped yesterday! I spent the day binging a horror show and while I didn't get tooooo scared (he says, face hidden under the covers), it did make every little ambient sound that night just that bit more unsettling. Oh I also carved a pumpkin and enjoyed a calmin...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - September 2021

Hey there gamers! 

Hope everyone's been doing well, as usual. Apologies for the late update—it's been a very exciting couple of months and I wasn't entirely sure what I could/couldn't share publicly. But now I know! The answer? Absolutely nothing!

What I can say is that it's all good news, so no worri...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - August 2021

Oh, I didn't see you there gamer! How's it hanging? Still gaming? Are ya winnin'? Of course you are, little rascal. *ruffles hair aggressively*

Development for this month was... all over the place really. That said, I've mostly been focused on two things: enemy revisions and publishers/grants.&nbs...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - July 2021

THE CRYSTALS MASON—WHAT DO THEY MEAN!?!?

Ahem, hello! How are you? Oh really? No kidding?! I'm doing all right, thank you. I have an update to show you. Would you like to see? Come hither...

I spent the first bit of the month working on destructible objects (specifically crystals). These will be scattered ...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - June 2021

HAPPY BELATED PRIDE MONTH GAMERS!!! 🌈🌈

I hope everyone had a great June! Honestly all the environment stuff is kinda blending together so I'm not entirely sure "what" I worked on this month, but I have a bit of an idea.

I spent a pretty good chunk working on WATER. I'm still experimenting style-wise but as of right now I've got...

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Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2021

Arbiter - Monthly Recap - May 2021

WHAT'S UP GAMERS?!

Hope you're all well! I just got my first vaccine shot (#PfizerGang) so I'm about halfway there before I start feeling guilty for not going outside again. Can't wait.

I spent the past month mostly working on different foliage and environmental assets, on top of minor bug fixes and such. I started out with the grass...

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