» The WHERE HAVE I BEEN?? Update

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University.

Things have been busy. I had more responsibilities than I assumed this semester. More importantly perhaps, I had more exams during the semester than I assumed. It robbed me of a lot of time and I have virtually not progressed with Project N5 or any other project of mine in the past 3 months.

I can't express how much I loathe it – I'd much rather work on meaningful, creative tasks than these worthless university submissions and exams, especially considering that I don't feel my university courses contribute anything of value to my education, at least in regards to my future job. In fact, I believe that my lack of time to work on creative projects might have made me forget how rewarding those can be, which in turn has robbed me of motivation to do just that.

The semester has wrapped up, and all that's left is an exam next week (for which I am supposed to study right now – I am currently procrastinating), an oral exam in 3½ weeks, and two submissions due at the start of August and mid-September, respectively. Not exactly fulfilling tasks, I have to admit, but I'll have to push through.

If there's one positive thing I can report back with, it's that I've been doing pretty well in my exams. I've yet to receive a grade lower than 2.0 this semester (which likely will change once I receive my geography didactics exam grade, but still), and that's despite the fact that I've really not put in the appropriate amount of work for it. Just as my motivation for my creative projects has been dwindling, I've been procrastinating on all my university tasks hardcore.

Project N5 is not cancelled, though! I'm still confident that work will commence soon! I just have to gather the motivation to actually start working on it again (which is much easier said than done).

Part of my problem, I think, is that I want to start with story and artistic content. For instance, I want to actually create my protagonist! I want to create the character so I can create animations, set up the proper node hierarchy, and just to take cool presentable screenshots of my work. Would it not be a lot cooler if all my devlog screenshots had a fully fleshed-out, poseable character instead of the T-posing temporary character?

For what it's worth, here's a picture of something I printed a few weeks ago. It's an N5 Blaster magnet that's hanging on my PC! I printed it myself, using my new Bambu A1 mini 3D printer, and the filament I used is PLA Galaxy green.

I'd love to 3D print more Project N5 weapons – though for that I'll have to design the weapons first!! And in order to do that, I'll have to come up with the ideas for the weapons, which is also proving difficult. A friend suggested to me a while back that I should consider which types of weapons I like in games, and which types I find fun to use.

As for now, I should get started with my studies – I'll write my next update once I have more things to present from Project N5, which will (hopefully) be in less than 3 months! Until then~