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Graeme @Graeme

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Reflecting

Posted by Graeme - July 11th, 2014


So it was a little over a year ago that I left "Goat-Man" and made the shift to GraemeNoodle (or just Noodle here on Newgrounds). And since then I have accomplished... literally nothing.

Nothing in the Flash world at least. I just flipped through some of my old news posts. It seems to be a recurring theme in my time here on Newgrounds that I don't see a lot of projects through to the end. I have stacks of ideas and half-assed starts to projects just laying around. It's not a good feeling.

I just bought a new tablet the other day though, upgrading from my 6 year old Wacom Bamboo. I've been using it to work on my project that I think has the most potential, and the one that was the furthest along since I last left it. I'm hoping to reinvent Pirate Launch, and bring it mobile devices! I have a lot of the basic art done, and need to work on menus and such (which has never been my favorite).

I'm trying no to kid myself, because I am still quiet busy with work. Today is my first day off after 15 days of ~10 hour days. But I really do miss Flash, and the Newgrounds community! I'm hoping that rather than putting in sprints of work once a month that lead to nothing, I can consistently put in micro-amounts of time that may eventually lead to a completed project.

I apologize to everyone here that I've left hanging over the years for projects that never saw it to the end. The largest of which was the follow up to DYHT. Most parts to the collab are done, but I had several dropouts and had trouble filling those empty positions. I hope that collab isn't dead forever. But it will be dormant for a while yet still. There are numerous others that never saw fruition either, and I am sincerely sorry about it. I hope that one day I will have the time to spend working on projects with the community I grew up with.

I'm considering setting up some kind of small tumblr/blog where I can post updates on projects. I think something that would allow me to give frequent, short updates might motivate me to work on things more often.


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Hi,
get up off knees and go :)

I miss goat man

Good luck! If you have trouble with seeing projects all the way to the end, I would recommend that you perhaps start small. Try to make something that is not too ambitious and just force yourself to get to the end. Make something really small, but try to make it the best you can. This is just a suggestion. I'm not trying tell you that this is what you have to do :)

I hope you like your new tablet and good luck with your future endeavours!

I demand an update video staring yourself

wow, true story there man. I'm stuck in the same position with work, too. it's hard to juggle work and spare time for that kind o project. What do you do for a living?? im just curious. I know I'm far from being in the animation field, while i wish i was a little more. good luck with everything!

I'm actually still just a student, but not for anything at all related to animation or games.
I'm hoping to put a little more focus on games, and see how it pans out.