What a year it has been!

Probably my most expensive year yet! So much so, I may need to cut a lot of things back for 2025 to prevent getting into the red! But it was quite the experience nonetheless. It was kind of like my “experimental year”. Thought not too substantial, there’s still some progression for me and my work as well as a few downturns as well. Let’s review them by month, shall we?

January

• Recovering from sickness

The year started off real sour because I was recovering from a strange variation of the Whooping Cough. A lot of my family members got it and I was the last to recover. Not the best start for 2024, to be honest. Fortunately, there were some ups that month!

• Art Gallery Collab

I’ve submitted one of my older works from 2023 as part of an Art Gallery Collab run by @Aalasteir! Possibly the first collab I ever participated!

• Ordered Plush from Plush Poll

It was also this month where I decided to order a custom plush meant for a major contest originally meant for this year. Unfortunately, that contest didn’t come to be for a few reasons as the year went on…

• January Art Posts

February

• Test Contest

My experimental year continues as I decided to make a “test” contest of sorts! Basically a contest meant to encourage those to be invested in my games even just for a few minutes. Originally intended to be one winner and a $50 prize, but this was later changed due to my poor writing describing the deadline. Before the contest, the only OviVixen characters I ever showed in the promotionals were Fox Sprite, Nu, BigNu, Rattino, Pangomalta, and Pop-Hoppy. I kept the rest of the cast hidden because I wanted players to discover the rest of the cast themselves; fortunately, this contest has helped a lot with that!

• Test Contest Winner

The winner for the initial contest was @TomDoy for their piece “Fox Sprite 64”!

I also brought in an Achievement award of $20 for whoever helped reveal the most or more significant characters, and that award went to @CALDM2001 for their piece “OviVixen Arcade Master Edition”!

Overall, I’d like to thank all who has participated in that contest and here’s a link where you can find all of them!

• Post Contest Character Reveals

March

• Post Test Contest & Winner

Because I didn’t make the deadline very clear, I extended the contest all the way to March that allows an additional winner and $50 prize money. The winner for the late entries was a Newgrounds newcomer at the time by the name of @rosarjc with this great piece!

• Earliest Easter Imaginable 

Easter should always be an April thing! No exceptions!

• Post Contest Character Reveals

April

• Plush Reveal

The plush meant for the now shelved contest had arrived that month! I’ll open the contest once I get the funding for it and OviVixen as a whole gets enough traction. In the meantime, there it goes eating my art on the daily!

May

• Pico Day Meetup

The greatest and most dramatic experience I’ve ever been to! Never have I met this many people all at the same time! Met @TomFulp, @BrandyBuizel, and the @Pukebomb crew again as well as quite a few others too who I have met in both Pico Day and the Yestercade event a year prior. I would like to briefly thank and mentioned all who I met there: @DeadlyComics, @Chourios, @JoeCanvas, @Malformed, @Sirmi, @KevSomeone, @Andyl4nd, @Jonas, @ninjamuffin99, @EllieDoodles343, @rappinawful, @novaruah, @Krinkels, @Luis. Got stickers from @Imprez, @RavioliBox, @devoidgazer, @DavidBurt, @EugeneDoesArt, @BobbyBurt, @ehjur, @leroyalmess, @robdogdraws. Glad to have personally met @SrPelo, @Spazkid, @PhantomArcade, @TwistedGrim, @Spinalpalm, and the dudes who made Bridge Kids! It was a rather extreme day throughout and ended with an intense drive back home!

I guarantee you this, I will not go to any Pico Day meetup until I have SOMETHING to show! Whether it be an animation or a game showcase kiosk, anything to prove I’m a Newgrounder!

• Character Reveals

June

• Life Left Turn

Crap happened that made me have to rethink my finances especially for 2025. It was that month where I had to shelve my big contest and think about further prospects outside of OviVixen. Working on the game or any art pieces weren’t exactly fun as my dying tablet was only allowing me to work on whatever for 2 hours at a time with a 3 hour charging break inbetween. Unfortunately, that was my “better” days with the tablet as the month, it decided to go “kaput”! I could no longer access the start screen and had to do some major workarounds to salvage as much as I can from it. I didn’t realize how much I have truly lost until long after I factory resetted the device.

• Unexpected Gift #1

It wasn’t all clouds n’ storms in June! @rosarjc gave me my first OviVixen Fanart! I’m very grateful for that!

July

• Unexpected Gift #2

Just as when I thought I would only get one fanart ever, here comes @LobsterMango with their piece “Reply Guy”! That really put a smile on my face!

• A100 Interview 

A lot of “ups” in July as @Aalasteir invited me for an interview talking about a wide multitude of topics as well as anything OviVixen related as well as the Pico Day event! Thanks, man, for having me on!

• Factory Resetting Tablet

It was also around that month where I had to bite the bullet and factory reset my “dead” Surface tablet. It was back up and I returned to drawing; however, its poor battery still makes working on it a complete drag. Stupid thing even went back to inaccurately reading its battery thus spontaneously shutting down after reaching 50%!

• July Art Posts

August

• OviVixen Anniversary

Despite August being a significant month for OviVixen, because of the drama I had with the tablet, I didn’t have much to show for that month. Maybe next August, I’ll reveal something much more significant!

• Clocks of BBS

I also participated in a collab run by @Little-Rena. It wasn’t too big of a role, but I had doing it! Thank you for accepting my submission!

• August Art Posts

September

• Start of the Twelve Hypotheticals

OviVixen-related dreams started showing up which motivated me to do some nonsense! First, I dabbled with Blender and made a few models: not the best models out there, but definitely improvements from the last time I touched that program. This was also the start of the Twelve Hypotheticals thing I wanted to do on a casual basis, and it all started with this character!

• September Art Posts

October

• Happy Halloween!

Didn’t do much this month because I got sick again with a similar illness I got last December, and the symptoms lasted just long too!

• October Art Post

November

• Music Overhaul

I didn’t want to end this year offering nothing, so I decided in December to run a slightly bigger contest similar to the Test Contest from February. But first, I had to do some major tweaks for the OviVixen games as a whole! I always wanted to overhaul OviVixen Arcade’s whole soundtrack, and it was this month when I actually did it! Three of the songs are actually posted here on Newgrounds as standalone audio!

The three songs all make their debut in the most recent update of OviVixen Arcade!

• November Art Posts

• Special Thanks to the Following:

@SanyaUmbra for your interpretation of Fox Sprite!

@UrnSudden for using Fox Sprite to help with your 3D modeling!

December 

• OviVixen Updates

It was the start of December where I updated Arcade and Master! Arcade with the music overhaul and slight gameplay improvement, and Master with some major bug fixes. Both fully downloadable on Itch.io!

• OviVixen EoY Contest

This contest was basically the “Test” contest but with double the timeframe and prize money. It’s now closed but the winners will not be revealed until last five minutes of today EST: basically when Newgrounds is about to hit 2025! The two winners will receive $100 each as a kickstart for their new years. 

• BBS Tankmas Special 

As one of many top-offs, I’ve also participated in one of @Aalasteir’s final collabs of the year! A rather silly one, I might add!

• Character Reveals

Conclusion

Again, it was quite a wild ride! It has got me thinking of more important matters for 2025. So much so, it has me considering a bit of a hiatus until I get things in line. But enough of those thoughts! Today is for celebration! I wish all of you a very happy new year!

This is basically a rebrief of my last blog post from the 1st this month with a tiny but significant update in between.

About Two Weeks Left for the OviVixen EoY Contest!

[This contest is, again, meant for mature audiences and participants]

Character Art made by @Raccoon-Sama

$100 USD each for two winners and the deadline is December 30th, 2024: the day before New Years Eve. I’ll reveal the winners on New Year’s Eve 11:59am EST! Further rules and details can be found in this thread here: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1540147. Please read if you wish to participate!

If you aren’t familiar with OviVixen as a series, you can try out the games themselves completely free, and recently updated!

Arcade

Master Demo

• An additional update from the previous release: Potential softlock on climbing walls and gates has been fixed.

If you want to support the game’s development, 

feel free to [buy this 4K image set for only $5]!

Ho-ho-ho! What a year we had! A lot has happened to me this year and to finish 2024 off, here’s a big OviVixen-Related Update for you guys!

OviVixen EoY Art Contest!

[This contest is, of course, meant for mature audiences and participants]

Character Art made by @Raccoon-Sama

A fresh new OviVixen art contest is now open to participate here on Newgrounds! $100 USD each for two winners and the deadline is December 30th, 2024: the day before New Years Eve. I’ll reveal the winners on New Years Eve 11:59am EST! Further details can be found in this thread here: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1540147.

So bladdy-blah-blah, you have made a new event, but what about the G-I-I-A-A-A-A-Y-Y-M-E-S!! Why, yes! There are new updates and fixes for OviVixen Arcade and Master!

OviVixen Arcade for Newgrounds and OviVixen on Itch Updates

• Complete Music Overhaul
• All audio properly compressed 
• Fox Sprite has a slightly longer jump, making later levels easier.

OviVixen Master Update

• Cut the high pitched section of some commonly played SFX for better hearing experience
• Vine hitbox tweak on Level 2: One case to prevent a softlock
• Tweaked the Ambush Spawn code to make it less likely to lock up!

This is honestly a big update for Arcade rather than Master; however, since it’s OviVixen’s official introduction, best give it the best first impression possible!

But that’s all for news this year! Now the focus is on this month’s contest to which I genuinely hope it goes well.

If you want to support the game’s development,

feel free to [buy this 4K image set for only $5]!

Wish you guys a very festive month! 🎄

A new member has been added to the list!

Now two of the twelve slots have been filled!

If you wish to vote the next color and suggest a prompt to reveal the next hypothetical, browse around and post your vote in this thread here! (18+)

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1538481

[FREE TO PARTICIPATE, ONLY NEED TO BE OF MATURE AGE AND SIGNED ON TO YOUR NEWGROUNDS ACCOUNT]

I may reveal the next hypothetical within the next fortnight, but in the meantime… I gotta compose some music!

Hope you guys are doing a swell Halloween month! As for me, not so much. I’ve been coughing up a storm for the past few weeks and it’s only now relieving itself. I did a few things related to OviVixen in between, but not so much in the actual “Video Games” department. That’s all gonna change for November because this is gonna be part of a small event I’m planning for the end of the year starting on the first of December. Before that happens, the two games need some touch-ups!

There’s already a big to-do list for these two games; however any criticism is greatly appreciated as I update them!

I’m also still doing the Twelve Hypotheticals if you guys wish to get involved in some way. Here’s a quick recap from the previous post!

For this thread in the Art Forum, I’ve started up this little side project that any user here can participate, so long as they’re of mature age! 

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1538481

The gist of it is, there are twelve cards. Each represent a major element in OviVixen’s lore, and in them are twelve mini-bosses that could be potential foes throughout Fox Sprite’s journey.

The first is Rummiera and she takes the red card!

Over on the forum, you can vote for the next color to bring forth in the Hypothetical Roster and suggest ONE detail for the next character each vote! There are some rules for these bosses, but that’s further detailed in the thread. Once or twice a month, I’ll then fill the character into the most voted card color and continue until all cards are filled. Simple as that!

There’s no deadline, it’s not something that you HAVE to involve yourself with, but I see it as kind of a fun way to interact with Newgrounds more.

But that’s all for now! Not so much of an “update” update, but it’s something I just want to share. Hope you guys have a great Halloween! 🎃

For this thread in the Art Forum, I’ve started up this little side project that any user here can participate, so long as they’re of mature age!

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1538481

The gist of it is, there are twelve cards. Each represent a major element in OviVixen’s lore, and in them are twelve mini-bosses that could be potential foes throughout Fox Sprite’s journey.

The first is Rummiera and she takes the red card!

Over on the forum, you can vote for the next color to bring forth in the Hypothetical Roster and suggest ONE detail for the next character each vote! There are some rules for these bosses, but that’s further detailed in the thread. Once or twice a month, I’ll then fill the character into the most voted card color and continue until all cards are filled. Simple as that!

There’s no deadline, it’s not something that you HAVE to involve yourself with, but I see it as kind of a fun way to interact with Newgrounds more. Hope you guys have a great September!!

I’m doing a few side projects that’s mostly 3D related, and I got into the habit of making emblems and textures. These were made real quick but they’re beginning to grow on me!

and

I’ve noticed they have the same vote count and a very close rating ratio. So just for fun, I want to see how far it can go!

So VOTE NOW!! Rate your favorite of the two emblems!

General News (7/19/24) 🎙️ 🏞️

Why this week is a rather interesting week for me! So let’s be as real brief as possible this time!

A100 Interview

Yesterday, @Aalasteir released a discussion we had discussing all sorts of topics: including general discussions about OviVixen, Newgrounds meetups, interesting methods to make music, casual conversations about arcades in general, …”toast?” and much more! I had a fantastic time talking with him, and hopefully another event similar to this happens again!

OviVixen Master & Wallpapers

So to help funding with anything OviVixen-related, especially OviVixen Master,

I have also released a set of 4K Pop Deluxe digital wallpapers done by @GRIS9! A beautiful collection of three, fullcolored splash pages starring OviVixen’s star, Fox Sprite, fighting one of each boss that you can encounter in the OviVixen Master demo! Only $5.00 for the whole bundle, with 3 quality variants for each wallpaper. So if you have played the demo and enjoyed it, please get yourself this fantastic bundle so OviVixen development can start back up as quickly as possible! Every dollar helps!

[Contains Nudity and is intended for Mature Audiences]

And that’s all for now! Hope you guys been having a magnificent summer, hope you artists been fighting your hearts out in Artfight, and I wish you all a great rest of your week! 🥚

Happy Independence Day!

Post Interview

The interview I had with @Aalasteir has been done and set to release as part of his A100 series on July 18th. It was a fine talk; however, I really need to get familiar with talking through a microphone, especially when communicating with people online. All n’ all, I need to get better with communication altogether, but we all have to start somewhere, am I right?

OviVixen Shop

Possibly the only OviVixen-related update for the summer is the development of an OviVixen shop planned to be opened the same day as the release of the A100 interview. It will start small, however: the first of few products will be a set of 4K digital wallpapers of splash scenes that involves the Fox Sprite fighting a boss from OviVixen Master. Three in total and they were all done by Newgrounds Artist @GRIS9! Fantastic works! If you love these following pieces, you will definitely love these posters! Although, these do spoil the encounters of the current three bosses of OviVixen; so play the game while you still can! 😱

If the turnout is greater than expected, I’ll add more to the shop once I regain the tools to be able to do so. Stickers and posters are definitely on the table! If things go right enough that I’ll be able to update OviVixen Arcade and Master once again before August hits, then something I’ve been planning for the whole year might come to fruition!

And that’s all, so get your barbecues ready because we all grillin’ tonight! 🍔

@Aalasteir has invited me for an Interview in his A100 show this July!

It’s basically an AMA and I will answer almost any question on mic.

If you would like to ask me a few questions, simply reply to this forum thread!

Very excited to start talking and answering questions from you guys!

As for OviVixen-related news:

On July 18th, I will be opening something in conjunction with the release of my A100 interview. Something small to start funding for the OviVixen franchise: mostly to resume development for OviVixen Master. There’s also a big side project I’ve been planning that can fit snugly into Newgrounds Movies Portal! But first, I need to get me a new PC tablet before I’m able to do any of it, so funding is currently on my mind right now.

So hopefully, the interview goes well and I’m very excited to continue production for everything OviVixen!