Hello everyone! I rise from the grave again. Been super busy (very unpredictable I know) so I'll just start this off by talking about updates to me and @spicycoffee's game, and what better way to start then with a cool picture?

We've been working on ME-OS tons and tons as usual, but haven't been showing much. That's because some of the stuff we want to keep a surprise... but this we can show (also we share progress very often on the Discord if you are interested). Finally we have an Image Viewer! Flip through images in any directory (local and external), zoom in and out, and have tabs of other pictures from other folders opened. We might add more features, but for now this has covered a long empty hole and browsing images is a breeze. Good bye old ugly glitchy File Surfer popup UI... Also does the location of the image look familiar to any of you? Hmmm

You might have also noticed, but some windows (mainly File Surfer, Image Viewer, and Mimi Player Mini) are now resizable! Hooray for better UI! Speaking of visuals, check out this addition to Lum Paint!

That's right, finally we have brush shapes in Lum Paint now! Not only that, but the drawing algorithm has been improved a lot. No more random gaps between strokes, and also just generally much more optimized and can even handle lag spikes and complete a relative line since last capture. Now for a little bit of Gon Ball Rally:

After receiving more input from beta testers, the ball movement feels much more "free"! Before it used to be more "realistic" in the sense that it would be harder to stop at faster speeds, but now it feels much more responsive as an in between approach. People seem to like it (and unfortunately the gif doesn't really illustrate how the game feels haha) but I felt it was important to share. Also here's another thing I wanted to show:

Zelomedia Splash finally has a proper menu! For those who don't know what Zelomedia Splash is, it's kind of a collection of small funny parody flash like games. Some of them are even released as standalones on Newgrounds! Ice And Fire Tower Defence, Super Hard Quiz P2!!, and Whoopie's Playtime.

There's a ton more stuff that I will announce in the next ME-OS Live (previous one here) but also some secret things I can't say, such as new guest songs in Keyccordion Dawn, and some awesome new characters in Jump Wars! So check out the ME-OS Discord server if you want more frequent updates on that :)

Also yesterday was ME-OS's 6th birthday! It's crazy how time flies, and sometimes its absolutely terrifying ;-;

Now onto other stuff!

So last time I mentioned that I was really busy. Well I guess I got even busier (both with this, work, and other stuff) so I've been around a little less. At least the health issues got somewhat better, so I don't feel like I'm suffering as much anymore!

One thing I've been doing aside from ME-OS is I've been helping @spicycoffee a lot with her animations. Mainly from the sound department though of course haha. I mostly did/found sound effects for two upcoming animations (one is supposed to release tomorrow actually!), and a whole seven track soundtrack for an animation she made coming out in June. Honestly both of them are so great, I really wish you'd all see it. The one coming tomorrow is a shorter one and cute, but the June one is like over three minutes long or something. I still find it crazy how she manages to do such amazing work (but to be fair she literally would work from 8 am to midnight for like the past two months so...)

Some of my other friends have also been doing some pretty cool stuff that I hope they'll show soon (also idk how much times I have said the word "stuff" in this post but I feel it's too many lol). However one thing I am really happy to show is that my friend @FelixBlobDev finally released a demo for his game Kewtia Crystallite Hunt on Steam! So far many people seem to be enjoying it, and hopefully you guys have time to check it out. It's like Mario 64 but with a lot of original stuff and cool gimmicks. Here's a dumb quick gif I made (gif compression sucks) of me running around with a character he made for me, but there's much more on the Steam page:

Anyways aside from all that, I'll really try to be more active as soon as I can, but there's lots of work to do all the time! I'd love to talk if anyone wants to comment on any of this stuff or anything in general. I always really appreciate you all reading my posts, and thank you once again! See you next time :)

-MG