****COLLAGE V1 ALPHA, NOT COLLEGE. DAMMIT LOL

Still though, this library is great and if you're looking to incorporate modding into your GameMaker game then I'd recommend using this for its image loading and managing, I've been using it since 2023 and it's done me well!
github.com/tabularelf/C...

the main thing i've been doing since is art, and on that front i've been doing a bunch of character design finalising and getting work done on character skins for the story mode. i'm hoping i can show them off soon, but i feel it's a bit too early to do so at the minute. maybe next update post?

in terms of programming, the main stuff i've done is get the game running on linux (after months of not getting it to work LOL, thanks college v1 alpha for the save), i also got pausing working, and have been continuing work on the asset loading stuff from before.

a main game i'm making needing to be worked on over it, as well as college getting in the way, it's hard to fit any other passion projects into the mix when both time and any additional help is lacking. regardless, if you read all of this, thanks for reading; hope you enjoyed what you saw! :] (4/4)

i would like to continue this game, i had a good amount of ideas for it and i would love to see it come into fruition because if it was real then it could be one of the stupidest and most fever-dream-like UNDERTALE fangames out there LOL. i'm pretty much a one person show though, and with- (3/4)

as seen in the first picture, i was working on programming the game for a bit before i eventually paused the project to work on Boll Mini (another currently canned project). i had reused an engine i was making a year prior for a different fangame, further developing it, here's some ingame bits (2/4)

alright, that's all!

i've been a bit busy with college work and other things, so progress on the game has been kinda slow, but rest assured i'm still working on it. hope you enjoyed all that, toodles!

lastly, i've been working on some new gamemodes, i've got one mostly implemented atm (just needs some extra sprites drawn for it), and a few others conceptualised recently with some assets drawn out for them.
i'm really excited to get them all made, but they'll take a while for sure

i also tried working on the load times! as it stands, the game loads a lot faster than it did before (for me, the game loads everything in around 1 or 2 seconds compared to the maybe 5-10 with the base game assets only beforehand)

i've been reworking the modding system a bit once more, this time i've gone after the settings text files. i thought the old system was quite outdated and unintuitive, so i reworked it to use a json format instead.
i feel like it's overall easier to use, both for making and managing them

(extra video for sunlite specifically....)

starting off, we got two new skins implemented in the game! these two are intended to be used for the story mode of the game, they are called "Sunlite", and the "Cotton Gnomy" (this is gonna be used for three characters because they look the same...)!

should clarify the Mod in the last image is just a test one i put together to specifically demonstrate how one would look in the menu, I Didn't Make That Gnome You Know...

also ignore the fact i wrote 2024 for the game version that's a typo LOL