Oh no I'm 31 now.

What's going on in the World of Pin Clock?

-IRL Stuff-

So bad news is I lost my job recently and am working to find work. It's not easy, but I'm taking commissions and even made a fiverr so I would appreciate if those were supported for artwork, or if you're just a kind soul who wants to help me get by, consider donating to my ko-fi! But that's enough begging for now. Outside of that situation, everything's been about the same over the past 365 days.

-Where is Johou Battle?-

I'm doing probably the last step in the game: Updating the art to my current standards since I expected this to come out so long ago that the illustrations no longer reflect my current abilities. Once those touch ups are done, it's simply a matter of importing all the assets, a few bugfixes, and implementing translation work, and it'll finally be ready to go! Oh, and I have to make a site for the game and myself. Barring anything catastrophic I'm expecting an October/November release period for it...will my game be a Scorpio? We'll see!

-Brawl Minus's next limits to break-

Hey, I did ensure Brawl Minus 5.0 came out last year, so I accomplished something! Brawl Minus still has a bit of a ways to go to be up to date with the other Brawl mods on the market, so I'm currently setting the stage for that as I'm hard at work on the next update, making artwork and managing the new additions. Speaking of setting the stage, if you're interested in playing Brawl Minus, why not sign up for the Setting the Summer Stage tournament on June 3rd at 6PM EST/3PM PST? My artwork for the event is finished and will be revealed soon, but we're also inviting other artists to participate, see This tweet for more information!

-It's another Clock Day film, everybody!-

I wanted to do something to pave the road to the big Clock Day 2026 film I mentioned in last year's post and...this one is a bigger undertaking than I thought. While 2024 and 2025 will be easier, I hadn't thought this one's duration out as well as I could have. It's halfway there, which isn't good enough unfortunately, but don't worry I'll find a way to power through and get this done on time! I'll use this one as a precaution for the next two years which will thankfully be much easier to produce.

Time to reflect

-Puella Magi Strawberry Clockika-

My Clock Day 2022 film was an interesting adventure that I definitely had fun adapting to a Clock Crew format. While it is a little sad seeing not a lot of people have seen the peak of anime known as Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the anime nature of its opening served well enough to have it accomplish its goal of a Clock Crew Magical Girl bit. I aimed for being cruder than usual with its jokes and I feel I succeeded there, but they felt crude in a very Pin Clock way, for better or for worse. Funny thing is the one movie I do go cruder than usual is the one time I have students find my videos and they act like I'm some sort of massive pervert because the one SBC gives another a bj or the masturbation joke or who knows what. But then I remember that this is the generation that thinks that everything in a work is reflective of the author when in reality I just wanted to try something slightly different, but it is what it is. I'm glad the ending was changed last minute, previously it was super specific to Madoka while the newer one works more in general with nods to Madoka. Which is part of why I feel the film succeeded in what it wanted to do, you didn't have to know Madoka or the Clock Crew to enjoy it, but there were a lot of bonuses if you did. That said this one was my worst performing Clock Day movie in a while, not even breaking Top 10, but that's just Newgrounds for you.

-April 1st, 2023-

So this whole thing came up March 1st when someone proposed we make April Fools a gaslight into making people think it was Clock Day. I figured it was a fun idea and wanted to do something but wasn't sure what until I realized I had the perfect movie already exist for this to work: My Clock Day 2018 film all about the date. I could keep most of the animation the same and just change a few things around and presto a brand spankin' new movie that fits perfectly, using something that already exists to fuel the gaslight! And thank christ Monaca Towa's birthday was on April 1st because if no Danganronpa character had an April 1st birthday I have no idea what I would have done! It did slow down productivity on Clock Day 2023 (because of course I had to improve all the backgrounds, the one thing I thought could use the most work) but it was worth it, and showed me that this idea has limitless...well, 364 more days worth of potential if I really wanted to revisit it. There's something funny about this movie ranking just like the original did 5 years back, though. Like it really is the same movie.

So where do we go from here?

This year is the year with wrapping up Johou Battle as its main goal (as have the last several years but ignore that) and once we are there, the other projects should be much smoother sailing. I want to make another game, but I'd rather make that game on a smaller workload than the one I have now, meaning I've got a lot of current work to clean up, wish me luck!