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!

Tablet’s Officially Dead

Yep, the Windows Surface Pro 2 that I had for over 10 years has finally bit the bullet. This is the tablet that I use to make both OviVixen Arcade and Master and throughout most of last year, signs of its inevitable demise was rearing their ugly heads.

• The tablet’s original charging cord died: got it replaced with a 3rd party one.
• The final update I had from Windows for 8.1 turned the tablet into a battery moron! It will assume 0% of battery life is actually 50% of battery life and it will spontaneously shut off upon reaching its assumed 50%.
• It cannot charge anymore without a workaround. The charging cord has an extra USB port and the tablet needed both the initial charging connection and a USB connection to charge at the same time.
• I can no longer use the tablet while it was charging. I have to allow it to charge for over 2 and half hours before I decide to risk running it again.

It was the same song and dance and it has really demotivated me from continuing with any of my projects. Tonight was when the unfortunate happened and something in the tablet prevented it from turning on properly. It first stayed stuck on the BIOS (TPM) screen and refused to leave it no matter how many times I restarted it. Eventually, I managed to get just the Automatic Repair menu to turn; but beyond that, the OS refuses to progress to the User Screen. In a slight glimmer of hope, I’ve managed to find a way to salvage the majority of my files into a flash drive from the Troubleshooting Menu.

Now it’s here that I say rest in peace to this wonky but trustworthy device of mine. I wouldn’t know how I would’ve progressed with anything art related without it! So because of its unfortunate end, I decided to put OviVixen development on hiatus until I managed to save up enough money for a new Surface and a better one at that! I have an idea of selling a set of digital wallpapers that I have been saving up for quite a while, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort to set up shop. If things go more than smoothly, I’ll get a tablet and resume OviVixen production by the end of August.

Until then, I wish you guys a magnificent summer!