Last year in October 15, 2023, I bought the game that would forever change my life, Terraria. I love Terraria, I don't think I've ever played a game like it before, I love it so much.

And you may be asking to yourself, "Why am I talking about Terraria and my love toward it?" well that's because when i bought it, I would frequently play Terraria a lot and it ended up in me having this dream(well it's more of a nightmare) where I was my Terraria character and there was this house in the middle of no where in this snowy tundra.

There were 5 people inside, then I blinked in that dream, and the bright white moon of the cold night sky turned to a menacing red blood moon, and 4 people inside that house were now dead, but one person was now this dark ghostly figure which closely resembled the appearance of the Wraith enemy from Terraria. And then it dashed toward me, so I used my wings to fly up and swing my Zenith to try and kill it, but it just disappeared, and it left me injured and alone in a cold barren desolate land, and then I woke up.

I feel like I had this dream due to the large amounts of blood moon events I would have to face off in Terraria, but the rest is very strange. Anyways, This dream peaked my interest a lot and like 3 days later (i had this dream on December 1st, of 2023) I decided to draw a quick sketch of that dream. And one night while I was working on trying draw a better image of what i was in that dream, I was making small doddles around it and 2 words came to my mind, Ever and Glow, and at first not much came from this, but i decided to save that somewhere for future use. And later I decided to why not make a game due to growing love for RPGs from games such as Undertale and OneShot, and now we're here.

Sorry for typing so much, anyways here's that quick and poorly drawn sketch of that dream and a logo idea that i had for this game, but decided to do scrap it:

Anyways, what have I done for the game so far? Well not much, this month I have been heavily focused on that crystal heart monster I have shown before and I've been getting distracted a lot, I think I need a break from using my phone. Anyways, I really like how the sprites turned out, but my art style has shifted a bit. Sometimes my art looks a bit "cartoon-ish" and then it looks detailed and realistic looking, which is a bit of a problem because I want the art to stay consistent throughout the entirety of the game, but I'll try my best in doing that.

New Sprites:

The other 2 Sprites are still being worked on.

Music

Music is still being worked on, mainly 2 boss themes, 2 which I'm stuck on and can't seem to get a right melody that can capture the right emotion I want it to. Also I was going to add a video here that shows a preview for one of the songs I've been working on, but I can't add it because there is no option to add a video in this section of this article, but it will probably be done by the end of December, if I can get the right melody in time.

Coding, Finally?

Recently I've been trying my best to try and code this game, and I haven't had much luck, but I'm mainly trying to see if i can make a simple bullet hell game and a worm boss like from Terraria in GameMaker, which is really important because one of the bosses in this game will be entirely different from the other bosses and it will be one of the last bosses.

But anyways, thank you if you read all the way to the end, It's a bit hard trying to do this all at once and it makes me happy knowing that at least someone is seeing this, but that's about all I have for now, I'll come back and post another update either on December 31st or January 1st, bye!