"Long story short: New year, new job as a salaryman. Anyway, I seriously want to make Noisysundae into a real living in a few years, so unlike the previous job which I decided to stop releasing menus, I'm going at both of them!

This time, I think I do need some advice, so if you have anything you want to tell me on any topic of this post, feel free to comment, or PM me if you don't want your thoughts to go public."

— The Manager

A New Job

"I'm signing another contract for a permanent job as a software engineer tomorrow, after 2 whole years being a NEET. Not sure if the term actually applies to me, but one certain thing is that I've always been working on Noisysundae ongoing tasks and learning stuff needed to make a game (Anyone remembered Decay Project?)."

— The Manager

Music Commission

"I've written notices in the profile headers a few times that I'm open for music commission, but gotta admit the messages weren't very clear because of all the role playing going on here. Maybe I should drop it if I really mean business. Plus, I didn't do anything more than that simply because I don't know where to start looking for a music freelance job, especially VGM (and I live in Asia on top of that, so if it really happens, I only work remotely.). I appreciate any advice in this regard."

— The Manager

Game Development Stuff

"Lately, I've been tinkering around Godot as I intend to use it not just for games, but also a template for animated wallpapers and if it works well, Noisysundae HQ (website) and a real-time version of the visualizer. Did I mention Decay Project? Ah, yes, I'm planning to redo all of that in Godot as well (Already replicated character controller I did in that Unity prototype, plus camera.), with all these game design notes I've been occasionally writing since the start of the Renovation.

And the inside of one of them, as a proof. See the letter and line count below.

And Decay wasn't the only game design I'm writing throughout the years.

I will put a brief description on some of other projects than Decay here: Beatdown is Crypt of the Necrodancer but MOBA, Green is a casual reflex-based game similar to the Lumberjack minigame in Work Time Fun. Hue is a game where you can play it as a Hack and Slash game, an RPG, or a stealth game, based on a character the player begins with, all in the same set of game mechanics. TD is...Tower Defense + match 3 mechanics (No, not color-coded towers. :P). Kill or Lie (actually named Kill/Lie but a folder name can't include slash) is more of worldbuilding with some random ideas on the stories. It's a thriller playing around judging the book by its cover, and there's no doubt it's going to be an interactive novel. I'm not very confident in my English writing skills, though.

And before you ask, game design I wrote is 80% about game mechanics (except Kill/Lie, of course) so don't worry, I don't confuse them with (story) writing or visual design. Nonetheless, the game design without at least a prototype is just...a bunch of ideas, so I'm thinking about finding a team to be in as a game designer (I can also double as a dev if you will) at this point. Seriously, I'm willing to share some of these, but I'm thinking about making it visually pleasing if I'm going to do so, since each of them is going to be really, really long.

Edit: Forgot to post Godot screenshots. Here!

Talking about Godot, I'm playing around its shader language (GDSL), mainly to try making my own vertex-based motion blur and FXAA."

— The Manager

A New Job (cont.)

"Okay, I completely forgot to say something about the plans with the upcoming job. I aim to be in it for around 3 to 5 years, just enough to be a senior, perhaps longer, while doing things off-work to achieve any of these: shipping an indie game, actively doing VGM commission works, or opening an actual (local) ice cream shop (Thinking about alcoholic ice cream, but personally, I don't do booze, not even a glass of wine.).

I normally don't write personal things here, or on the internet in general, so this paragraph might sound hypocritic and weird. It's fine if you'll think bad of me from here on out, I respect that. Anyway, here goes nothing...tbh, I had happier time working on Noisysundae all day, and sometimes I did all the way from 6 (I'm a natural early bird) to midnight, even rarely skip lunch. I mean, not "there's a lot of work I don't have time for lunch" kind of thing, more like, I'm simply caught up in the moment I forget everything else. The only downside to me is that Noisysundae is not profitable, partly because I always release menus for free and I know that I can't just start completely paywalling my new menus. Since 2014, I only earned around 150 bucks in total (yes, in total). With that kind of strong passion (and that wasn't for money, too), I really hope I can make a living out of it, either as a music composer or a game dev, but I still didn't prove myself for the latter.

For the rest of this year, I'll try crunching the remaining tasks on Noisysundae Renovation as much as I can (Noisysundae HQ, visualizer, etc.). Going to make a demo reel for music commission as well."

— The Manager

Bonus: Another WIP of Guilt