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!