A huuuuuuge quantity of technical updates and backend polishing went on this month!! 🌟 And some great art progress as well!! 🎨 The environment is pretty much completely painted, with only a few uncolored details around the map~

Here’s a summary of each update post!:

• In Background Art Lookin’ Good!, the first pieces of foliage were painted into the world~ 🌳 For the first time, the colorful fantasy environment was really made apparent; bushes and trees in a rainbow of colors populate this world! 🌈
• The next update, Background Painting Coming Together – Cute Little House, the details of the map began to blossom up.  There is a cozy little house tucked in there – who could live there? 🏡  I also learned a fair bit about Game Maker’s texture pages!
• A Flowery New Friend!! 🌸 This introduced a new inhabitant of the colorful world, with some fairly early art… she gets updated in another post or two!
• In Serious Map-Building, the artsy aspects of the environment are set aside in order to get them all functioning as a map that the player can walk around in and interact with. 🏞️ There were a lot of lessons learned in this process!! 💪 And they all lead toward more efficient work in the future! 💪💪
• A huuuuuge update summary post titled Dialog is getting really polished!! lists a great quantity of important fixes and additions!  Most importantly among them being DIALOG FOR THE NPC’S!! 🗣️💬
• A SECOND huge update list is detailed in  The To-Do List is Getting Smaller~!! 📝  While most of the previous post covered things related to the NPC’s, this one is widely varied, with polishes for movement, placement of UI elements on the screen, and MUSIC!! 🎶
• And, finally, just yesterday brought us Pauses in Dialog OMG!!!!!!    😱 Yes, I really am that excited about it, lol.  Making your reading dynamic is one of THE most important aspects of games with dialog, and I even share my code for finally figuring out how to implement this dynamic in this post. 👾
• Also in the above post is a cute animated gif of the cute, tiny dust puffs I implemented as the characters walk around LOL. 🐾

Whew!  I’m really, REALLY happy about the amount of progress this month!! 🤗  Like I’ve said in these updates, there truly isn’t much technical stuff left, and it’s just up to me to paint the remaining details! 🎨🖌️

I’ll have something fun for everyone to download VERY soon! 🐇

✨ Thank you so much for taking the time to read my summary of what I’ve been up to over this month, and if you’d like to help in any form, consider the links below to either become a patron or just to donate once through Paypal any small amount~

ThinkGeek made this official fashion line available, featuring familiar motifs from Breath of the Wild!!  I think these are AWESOME!!  Some of them are kind of subtle, so you can wear them casually without it being suuuper obvious that you’re wearing something geeky (handy in some situations).  Of course, the overtly geeky stuff is awesome fun, too!

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sheikah Ladies’ Jacket

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hylian Ladies’ Knitted Poncho Wrap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Hylian Shield Ladies’ Knitted Poncho Wrap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Divine Beasts Ladies’ Tee

These!!!  Are!!!  RAD!!!!!!  My fave of these four pieces is the blue shawl, which reminds me of Zelda’s blue, bell-sleeved dress~  The grey poncho is also really cool – its design is based on the Hylian Shield!

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link Coat

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link’s Arm Guard Sweater Hoodie

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Divine Beasts T-Shirt

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Link’s Tunic Sweater

Cool!!  The coat is another subtle one, but my favorite thing of these four is the light green cardigan sweater.  It reminds me a bit of Link’s starting out tunic, but the designs on it actually match the undershirt you see under the Champion’s tunic, and those Gerudo-motif arm designs are on there too!

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild Mipha’s Beanie

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Backpack

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Revali Hooded Scarf

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Daruk Beanie Cap

Zelda: Breath of the Wild Urbosa Chiffon Scarf

!!! CHAMPION STUFF!!!  This is the first time I’ve ever seen official merchandise for the Four Champions.  Which is awesome, because NOW I CAN WEAR A SCARF LIKE URBOSA!!  Seriously, everything listed here is cool.  The Mipha beanie is so cute (and perf for fans of Sidon, too!), and the Revali hat with long scarf tails is so cool!!  I thought the Daruk thing was just a headband but it’s actually a beanie (the top is whitish grey).  When I realized that, it made me think of the black-headband-with-white-cap-on-top that the male Pokemon trainer from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald wears, lol?!?

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Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine (sometimes also spelled ‘Haine’) has been one of my FAAAAAVORITE anime in recent seasons!! It is SOOOO heartwarmingly sweet and makes you feel sooooooo good, of the warm-and-squishy comfort variety.

And the setting!! WOW!! It takes place in a fantasy version of an Austrian royal palace, and the anime isn’t shy about showing off beautiful royal halls and architecture – and the beautiful princes that live within them. Seriously, this show is SO beautiful! (And, LOL, don’t giggle at their hometown being named ‘Weiner’ – its name is based on ‘Vienna,’ LOL).

Also catch the live-action ending dance at the end of episode 7! Those are the stage actors for the live stage version of the show – they are the same actors who play the voices of the characters in the anime!

These are official, legal streams from Crunchyroll – watching them here helps support the anime industry!

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Episode 1 – The Royal Tutor Arrives

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Episode 2 – The Prince Interviews

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Episode 3 – You Don’t Need to Accept Me

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Episode 4 – The Princes Go to Town

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Episode 5 – Assailed By the Greatest of Trials

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Episode 6 – At Cafe Mitter Meyer

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Episode 7 – The Whereabouts of a Dream

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Episode 8 – A Timid Heart

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Episode 9 – The Price of the Past

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Episode 10 – The Professor I Don’t Know

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Episode 11 – The Pair’s Promise

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Episode 12 – The Last Lesson

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The last time I covered Japanese snacks, I listed a lot of ones I hadn’t actually eaten myself.  This time, this roundup lists several that I’ve had the opportunity to try and I can let you know how tasty they are!!

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GLICO Chocolate Caplico Cookie 30g

Look!! At how cute!! and PINK!!! These sweet strawberry ice cream treats are!!
They are suuuuuper creamy and perfectly strawberry-sweet!

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HOKKAIDO ROKKATEI Strawberry Chocolate 150g

These chocolaty truffles come in such a pretty, flowery little box!!
There are WHOLE strawberries inside them!! (/*o*\)

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GLICO Chocolate+Strawberry+Vanilla Ice-cream Cone Stick

These are really cute and tasty!!
They look like ice cream and are flavored like vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry,
but they are airy, fluffy and creamy like the texture of chocolate
when you bite into them, except for the “cone” which is like a wafer. :3

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GLICO POCKY Strawberry Cream Covered Biscuit Sticks

A classic!!!!
Pocky is light and minimal and easy to snack on~
There are lots of flavors, but, of course, for my pink snack roundup,
I naturally went for the strawberry one!!
Sometimes, strawberry pocky is even cut into the shape of a heart~

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LOTTE Koala Strawberry Cream Filling Biscuit 41g

These are REALLY tasty!!
One of my favorite types of little cookies to pick up~
We have a sushi place near us that sells boxes of these. n_n

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Check out these super pretty & princess pink makeup and beauty goodies I found on Yamibuy~

Yamibuy also has Japanese snacks and homey stuff, so check it out if you think that’s cool!!

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LULULUN Moisture Facial Mask 42sheets

These masks are a huge trend right now…
I actually haven’t tried out using one at all!! oAo
A lot of them come in really cute packaging like this, though!

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MISS HANA Voluptuous Triple-Colored Lipstick 

It’s also possible to create the effect of gradient lips using foundation
and feathering out your lip color from the center of your lips,
but there are also sticks like this that take care of the whole process for you!

And, the packaging like this
always makes me think of a vintage movie star’s vanity table~

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CANMAKE Marshmallow Finish Powder

Okay, I’m sure I’ve featured Canmake a bamillion times before,
but everything they make is SOOOOO PRETTY!!

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UTENA Matomage Hair Styling Stick 13g

This is pretty neat!!  I’ve never seen a product like this~
It’s a stick that you smooth over baby hairs and flyaways to
smooth them in place.
I thought it sounded helpful!  And it’s packaged cute, too~

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HOUSE OF ROSE Oh!Baby Body Smoother Scrub 

An exfoliating scrub from Oh! Baby!
They do other beauty products with really cute packaging, too~

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