Cherry's Ghosts, In One Place

Hey-o! I'm back, once again confirming I'm not dead.

It's been a bit, huh? 2020 has been... well. I don't want to go into details, but it's been a tough year for me. A lot has happened, and I haven't had the time, energy, or motivation to work on CheeryBot or ukagakas in general. CheeryBot in particular has been sitting nearly finished for ages, but I haven't been in the right headspace to finish her up.

I want to get back into ghost development, but in a more serious, sustainable way than I've done in the past. My normal patterns of progress are that I'll pick up a new project, work on it near-exclusively for a while, burn out or get bored of it, and drop it and move onto the next thing. While I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to break that cycle completely (I'm pretty sure I'm neurodivergent, and that cycle seems to be common among people with ASD/ADHD), I'd like to figure out ways to mitigate it: to keep myself from overworking myself when I'm invested and to keep myself doing something small when I'm not. If I'm able to do that, I should be able to Finish CheeryBot by her release anniversary!

Additionally, if I'm able to start working on CheeryBot or other ghosts more reliably, I'd like to start taking my Patreon more seriously. I know I'd like to get to a point where I could pay for a proper website to host my ghosts on, instead of having to host them on the current one - which I think is down again, ugh. Having at least enough patrons to support that would be perfect. And maybe I'll start posting updates weekly instead of monthly (or "monthly", as it were), to motivate myself to get something done to share? Who knows. I have a lot to think about.

Making new years resolutions feels a bit cheesy, especially since most people don't keep them, but mine are "start doing things I enjoy again" and "make more money". I hope they'll be a bit more doable this time!

The latest update for CheeryBot is here! It’s been a few months, so I’ve cleaned up what I’ve done to her for an update, finally.

If you like CheeryBot, consider pledging to my Patreon! Patrons get lots of perks, including exclusive shells featured above!

You can update to v_beta2.0.2 on Cheery’s main double-click menu or the functions menu, depending on your settings, as well as at the top of her right-click menu. If you’re having trouble updating, make sure you don’t have any windows updates or other important updates queued up. If you haven’t already installed CheeryBot, you can get her here!

As always, the full list of changes is featured on her changelog, but here’s the highlights:

You can now set custom reminders! You can tell CheeryBot a message, and at the top of the hour you select, she’ll tell it right back to you! There’s a maximum of 5 custom reminders. You can set these new reminders in the menu “Set Reminders”, under the option “Something Else”.

Once you set a reminder, she’ll remind you of it every day until you remove it. You can access all the reminder’s you’ve set under the same option as setting them.

There’s also been a few changes to some of her other menus! There’s a few new lines in her “Get Encouragement” menu, and the responses in the “Look what I did” menu have been randomized to have a different message every time!

A huge thanks to my $5 patrons for pledging to my patron:

Excel Lynt

Alice Broadribb

If you have any comments, bugs, or suggestions, let me know!

She’ll actually remind you to many of those things already! It’s in the “Set Reminders” menu, under “Do chores”. You can tell her to remind you to eat and clean up, as well as shower, change clothes, brush your teeth, wash your face, and do the laundry! They’re not really scheduled, though; they’re just reminders that pop up in her random dialogue. The food one does show up at noon and six, I believe, if you have her remind you of the hour!