The ME-OS art contest (music/visual/etc.) had it's deadline moved to Dec 8th! If you want to make some cool art in exchange for cool prizes in the game, join the Discord and read the contest rules! Anyways, let's look at a funny gif...

That's right, the Portal Dreams game for ME-OS is getting items now! They can be used in single and multiplayer, and add a new edge to the game. You have to find and collect these items before you can use them, and so on. And of course, I implemented one of the hardest ideas for an item first, because I like to torture myself... a portal shot ©™®!!1

I've always been fascinated with portals in games, so once I decided to add items to Portal Dreams... I knew I had to make an item that can create them lol. Getting the shaders, math, physics, etc. done for this was all a nightmare... to put it into perspective, the easiest thing I had to do was rewrite the entire player movement code to a more physics based system lol. It also works with teleporting any prop, too...

I've been working on this game a lot recently, as it's not one of the only planned release titles I want to have with ME-OS, but also such a fun game in multiplayer. I mean, me and my friends already mess around spawning random stuff in multiplayer here and just create complete chaos lol. Now with all the improvements, changes, and additions, playing with my friends should be much more fun next time lol

I've also been getting other stuff done on the other games in ME-OS here and there, and man it's so much work! I work at my job during the day, and then right after work on this until I usually just go to bed. But I know it will be worth it, just gotta get more people to discover the game lol. My dream is to just make this game be me and Emily's success, and even if it flops well... I'll still keep developing it lol I love it :)

I also have to release three remixes by the end of this year that I haven't even started yet, so I gotta get on that really soon! I don't think anyone will guess what they will be of (and even if you do I can't tell you smh).

Besides that, I've been really trying to keep reviewing stuff like I like to on NG. When I have the time to, I usually go through like 10 songs a day (if I can, more, and if I also can, some art) and it usually takes a good hour to do that. Unfortunately sometimes I forget, and sometimes I don't have the time, but I really like to knowing that it might make someone happy that day. Only thing I worry about is if my reviews are like, samey if that makes sense? But I always try to really write what I think even if it does seem overly optimistic lol. So if you ever see my review on your stuff and it's just full of good things it's because I really mean it!

I feel like I could write more but I should probably get back to work... if you read this far thank you! I dunno how much people out there read my news posts but yeah. See you next news post!

-MG