Welcome!
April 2026 has come and gone! Welcome to May ladies and folks… Let’s see what the one they call Viktor was up to.
April 2026 Goals
- Trash Force incremental demo (in the new resolution)
- Falling Thingies new demo and full back to front feature complete
- Prepare the Steam page for the new collab project announcement
- Participate in Ludum Dare 59
Wouldya look at that?! We actually managed to pull off all of the month’s goals! Well, they were goals I had in progress from last month, but still. Good timing too because I’m going to need all the free time I have to focus on the Falling Thingies launch. The Steam page for the collab project is ready but hasn’t been deployed publicly yet while we refine the screenshots and prepare a trailer. The hard part is done though, getting a 7-way revenue share agreement squared away and deciding on a name and logo for the project.
For Trash Force, the new demo build internally supports a new higher resolution, new menus and lots of game changes. For example, you don’t take damage from running into regular asteroids now which was a change a lot of people wanted.
We’re still not entirely an incremental game, more work needs to be done on that front. That will have to wait until Falling Thingies is released… In the meantime I can show you the differences between the old and new version of the in-game scenes. Lots more room for activities!
Bonus Tasks Completed in April 2026
- Publish the Ludum Dare entry to Newgrounds
- Purchase Salazar
I rapid-fire deployed the Ludum Dare submission to Newgrounds in addition to submitting it to Ludum Dare. Normally I spruce up the game with medals and bug fixes and extra features before I do that, but this time around I have no time for that.
More importantly, in the second week of April I went down to the largest artisan craft show the city has to offer and picked myself a little something-something. As soon as I saw this guy when I was walking past his booth I knew I needed to buy him. I’m sure you all will agree! Meet Salazar, the newest addition to Blue Pin Studio. With Salazar by my side, I fear nothing and I fear no one!
May 2026 Goals
- Birthday partyyyy!
- Falling Thingies launch candidate build
- Make the new collab project public
Go go go! Busy Month. Falling Thingies has to do fairly well for all the time I’ve put into it. What I’m hoping to do is launch the game right as the Bullet Hell fest starts. This will overlap my launch discount with a steam-wide festival. Hopefully that nets me a least a few hundred bucks extra, but obviously only a few hundred wouldn’t excite me that much. What I would like is to generate $3000~ from this project so I could get a decent return for the time spent on it.
We’ll learn more about how that went once the launch happens and I can do a monthly update for June.
Musings
Yo Vickle, how are you doing, It has been a bit over a month that your long term relationship ended? Welp, I could feel better I could feel worse. Perhap I’m over the hump, over the worst of it. I’m super grateful to everyone who reached out as a result of my previous blog post and people in my personal life in general. April was filled with lots of distractions from the feelings. I spent a lot of nights stuck in my feelings despite that but I guess that’s to be expected, no? The one upside besides everyone being so nice, time moves alot slower when you’re stuck in your head. This April felt like 3 Aprils haha
Me and Salazar will get through it no problem. Thank you to everyone again! See you in May’s recap! ❤️
Here is the monthly song. I almost couldn’t think of any song I wanted to shoutout but I found this one near the end of the month. Such a banger! A little bit awkward using the non-official version of the song but I think mekedes did an amazing cover of their own song so that’s the one I picked!
The Boy I Am by Mekdes
