Hello to who ever is reading this, thanks to who ever reads these. So this month I feel like I didn't do much progress, but I still did some things and I almost forgot to post a monthly update.

So, I have all of the work for this game and other personal stuff on a USB flash drive and I took it to school to work on the sprites for this project. And after I got home I noticed it wasn't in my pocket or backpack so I went to check every possible place I could of think of, and i did find it, but it was wet and I went on Google and did some research on what to do when this happens. And Google told me to let it dry up for a couple of hours, and the files I needed to work on for this game were on the USB, so I decided to play Terraria to pass the time, and then I remembered about this update post I was supposed to post and that's how I almost forgot to post this. (sorry for writing too much)

Anyways here's what I have made.

Gyrium

Gyrium is this angry crystal monster (There will be a lot of mentions of crystals in this game) which is an optional mini-boss for the first part of the game. Gyrium's design is inspired by "Cryogen" from the Terraria Calamity Mod and the way Gyroscopes work.

Also one thing I'd like to say that I don't think I've said yet, is that this game is based on my personal experiences and I'm trying to express myself through this game. So, this boss is meant to represent the 7 stages of grief/ depression, which i have had these small and frequent periods of "depression" and just like a gyroscope spins and spins, these brief periods of depression come and go a lot.

Also I really like how my pixel art style has changed, before I would use a ton of different shades of colors which can look very unorganized and messy, and when making this I decided to give myself a challenge and use about 7-5 colors which I find to be pretty impressive.

Here's the art I made before converting it to pixel art:

Other things

On the previous post I showed this character that I made, Corazlia, and I wanted to give her something that could make her look unique and I decided to change the design of her skirt/dress to flower pedal design and I think it looks good.

Also I forgot that she lives in this snowy tundra so I gave her sleeves, and I gave her dress a bit of a light blue trim to it and I finally wrote a bit of a story/lore for her.

Lore: Ever since Corazlia was a child she had always been overwhelmed by awful thoughts and her sister would help her get rid of them to life peacefully. But then her sister had to go somewhere else to set order in that place, and those thoughts tried to come back, but she tried to quell them down my helping and showing love to the people around her. But now a great calamity and corruption has emerged, creating these monsters which one of them has captured the princess, Corazlia, and she's slowly waiting, hoping that someone will come and save her.

And that's about it. As of writing this it's already November 2, but when i started writing this it was about an hour before the second of November, so yeah, sorry. But yeah that's about it, music is still being worked on and won't release until I can create a melody that can go with the mood I want it to express, and I'm going to start trying to code this game by this month or by next year which is going to be hard, but I'll figure it out... or maybe get someone else. But that's about it bye!