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    I found out about Undertale when I was 13, which is like the prime age for something to weld to a person for the rest of their life.  For some its a hobby, or a band that was popular at the time.  For me it was this game.  

    Part of the reason why this is taking so long to make is because when I had the idea for redo, I didn’t have a good clue as to what exactly makes a good game.  Over these 5 years i’ve learned so much about game design, despite not actually having released any real game of my own yet.  A lot of the time spent working on redo before this year was more like experimentation.  Now that I know what i’m doing (somewhat), I can work on this for real.  Once I have time to of course.

   If you look back at the beginning of this tumblr, you will find that redo did start as another web comic type of thing.  Again, i’m glad tumblr wasn’t letting me upload photos for some reason, because that put the idea for this alternate universe in the time-out corner to think about what it should be.  As it currently stands, redo can work either as a game or a web comic.  Although a web comic might be easier to just “get it out there,” I want to stick to turning this into a full fan game of Undertale for a few reasons.

   For one thing, I can spend as long as I want fine-tuning every part of a game from end to end before releasing it for people to see.  There were also a few times after looking back at what happened to Dreamer Reborn where I went and found a bunch of other fan games that were too convoluted to finish.  To me it feels like I have make redo as a game to fulfill the lost echoes of projects that could have been, but fell apart from having a massive hubris to begin with.

    And now, another update with game making.  Progress over the summer has been less than I anticipated, and its mostly boring backend bullshit for the player code anyways, so i’ll spare the fine details.  Movement is being finalized to a base version, animation is being experimented with, and a good solution for item/inventory management backend is being figured out.  All the progress that is being made is solid looking too, since the github repo is encouraging us to not completely scrap stuff.

    hey look at this crummy terrain generation I did for fun while you wait for something significant

    Anyways, I want to finish this with one last thing.  Occasionally, I grab the note cards i’ve drawn on and lay them all out together at the same time.  the leftmost grouping is stuff I made in the early phase of redo.  Stuff from about 2016-2017.  All the cards on the right side I consider kosher with what I feel redo is right now.  The notebook there is something I carry around sometimes, and i’ve put a lot of stuff in there like sketches and small bits of writing explaining the game.  Not to mention, there’s the sketchbook that’s sitting there as well.

    AND,     and and and and and there’s another sketchbook I got that has a really nice surface on the paper that I enjoy sketching stuff on, so here’s the first page I filled up in it.  The pages can barely fit in my scanner.