75% done, and we wanna release it near the end of October, time to get off my ass and work harder than I have before

really don't wanna delay it since we were working pretty well last week, but this week has been a bit slow

I'm gonna try to work on some sprites tonight

-Isabelle (GiffanyCD)

Hank Madness Combat

I lost my voice, so I might have trouble voicing some shit

I feel terrible

I'm here with Tonotim and Smiler, they are going to help me write this... anyways Tim, got anything to say?

"it's grawsome" - Tonotim

anyways, we had a bit of a problem while I was working on stuff, right now I'm at my grandma's house with shitty wifi, and my computer started to boot-loop, I tried fixing it and then it just wouldn't turn on, the entire night I was the most miserable I've been this week, and it's been a shitty week so far. we got my computer working again, but it made me realize I was doing a terrible job backing up the files for everything, I almost thought we could've lost anything, so I'm currently uploading the build... and dear god!

the internet is so shit, I'm downloading the Simpsons Tapped Out update and I've been waiting all day to play funny simpsons.... so yeah internet has been pretty bad this week, we're also currently focusing on backing up as much things as we can just incase

this month we're mostly focusing on finishing up Auth and BM's story mode weeks, and we're putting the finishing touches on some freeplay songs.... we're actually making great progress, infact, one of the composers, Tora, is finishing up one of the songs, take a listen

Funny sneak peak here

"dododo Mr skelybones" - Smiler

anyways, the mod I think is around 70% done I'd say, since one of the songs we decided to just remove due to it being too much for us to work on. and when September rolls around I might not be able to work on the mod as much...

we'll see when we get there

-Isabelle and the Vs Nova Team

So like years ago, I remember having a dream where I looked in a mirror and saw that I turned into Yuri from DDLC, the only thing I remember is that she had a grey pencil skirt instead of her usual skirt... it was honestly a pretty nice dream, I don't usually have those

decided to draw what I remember her looking like

honestly, Yuri is just really cute in general, I'd give anything to become a busty girl with purple hair like Yuri DDLC. she's just so silly and adorable, I wish the characters in that game weren't written like generic anime characters and we're written like actual people.

I'd kill to develop boobs and not have such a flat chest as I currently do, hopefully soon I guess....

also by the end of the month, there will be a new Nova Blogpost, so enjoy that I guess

have this image as well I guess

Working on Vs Nova is both a blessing and a curse. on one hand, I have a team of people who are willing to be passionate about something I'm also passionate about, on the other hand, Hyperfixations can only last for much longer. I want this to be the final update because I really don't want to work on modding this game anymore. I know I usually have periods of burnout, but I'm finally getting fed up with hearing the same beep-bop voices over and over again for the past 4 years.

This update keeps getting scaled back, due to not wanting to work on so much at once, and I'm trying to get everyone to pitch in, so me and Tim don't have to do all of the work. but even so, we all have tons of projects and other interests in our lives. The mod isn't gonna get canned, I keep saying that because it never does, one of us gets the FNF hyperfixation to return and we continue working on this thing, but we're scaling back a lot of what we had in mind, mostly cutscenes and a different freeplay menu. Considering I haven't even touched the mod this week, aside from showing it to a friend, I think development is on a bit of a break at the current time of writing this. doesn't help that Summer is always stressful for me. although I get more time to work on these things, I also don't have much going on, I get bored easily, or I pick the wrong time to work on things.

we want the mod to release by the end of 2024, but we don't know when, even though we don't have that many songs to work on, it's still a huge task for these last few songs, there's a lot to them. we also don't wanna overhype it or bank on it too much, these are freaking FNF mods, they aren't gonna be anything amazing. I will however enjoy showing this to my friends and family, and people who will check out the mod when it releases. I admit I've been lazy, taking 2 years to make the funny Flash game mod update, but I can hope at the least when we do release this. we can mentally rest, not having to feel the non-existent pressure of releasing this damn thing, and with this being the final update, we're making sure we add everything we wanna add, that's reasonable...

we keep saying to "don't expect much", but who knows, maybe you all will find this interesting to say the least

-Isabelle (GiffanyCD)

I think this one is necessary, since we're going through a bit of a progress block for multiple reasons. you know personal life, redoing shit again, the usual lack of motivation in this fanbase. Don't worry chat, we're not gonna like cancel or anything, you're definitely getting that teaser I promised, just the cutscenes aren't finished I guess.

Let's start with a few things

PROGRESS BLOCK NUMBER 1: THESE CUTSCENES

They're not a big priority for a reason, it's because they take so damn long, just the Novapeebo cutscene we're redoing, it's not even that long, but just the simple animations take the longest, doesn't help that Krita crashes so much.

You see, there's a story to this mod, it's told through cutscenes in-between songs and some context clues in the songs themselves, and the cutscenes are most likely the reason Ozone and Auth's week are gonna have like only two songs, I don't wanna animate them... that being said, A couple of things to keep in mind, we made a community survey again, and you all won't mind not having a few cutscenes, which is gonna save us some time.

This is gonna save us a shitload of time by the way, also for any future cutscenes, we might simplify the cutscenes a bit so we're not spending so much time on them.

in total around 7 cutscenes at the least, 3 of them are from Nova's week, and the rest are for the upcoming weeks, we're gonna be a bit lenient, one week might not have a cutscene at the start of the week, and we're not counting the splash screens we're adding to the end of every week that let you know you've unlocked the next week. but then again, if Tim or Whispers are willing to help me with these, then who knows, maybe we might get one more

that reminds me

PROGRESS BLOCK NUMBER 2: WE KEEP REDOING SHIT

You ever look at an FNF song you've made, a character you've made, sprites, etc. and you just go "FUCK IT, WE REDOING EVERYTHING"

that's the whole reason I made 3.0, it was not feeling like everything was complete, so I double-downed and just, continued to work on it... and here we are. thankfully Tim wanted to help with this, and without them I don't think 3.0 would be in the state that it is, Tim is willing to take risks and comes up with some really fucking good ideas for this shit. I do sometimes tell them "that might be too much for us to handle" or "I don't think we have the budget for that".

I need to remind everyone we're like a team of 8 people, two of the members at the moment just came in to help with song mixing, one as a guest composer, and one to help give feedback and help with one of the upcoming songs. recently, most of the work has been done by Me and Tim up until a few months ago, when we got HyperWhispers and DisplaceDev onto the team, I noticed they were willing to help with art, something I've been dedicating most of my time to doing for this mod. so we got some new artists on the team, they're both helping with Pixelart for one of the songs and some story mode art, which is saving us a lot of time. I'm still animating obviously, but I'm more lenient with letting these two help with the art direction, I give some feedback when necessary, but I think it's going pretty well at the moment

there's some stuff that we haven't even touched yet animation-wise, and due to this, I'm making Character Reference Sheets for all of the characters and shit, so the team can draw these guys easier, I'm aware Nova is pretty hard to draw.

Also, the song list keeps changing, we either remove or re-add a song to the list, it's kind of a headache for me. considering a couple of the songs we scrapped for the reason of them feeling like filler. especially since Supernova Ultimate, the redone version, it's just a completely new song now. so it's being renamed.

You know ever since the Weekend 1 update came out, we've been wanting to add some of the shit that was in that update, but none of the scripts we found work most of the time, they either crash or are janky as hell, or there is no script. we heard ShadowMario, the guy who made Psych Engine, is porting Wekend 1 over, which if it comes out soon, that might mean one of the songs we'd wanna do can be more possible than ever... also results screen from what I've heard.

but enough rambling, the last progress block we're facing

PROGRESS BLOCK NUMBER 3: MY PERSONAL LIFE

not gonna lie, this whole month has been shitty, the world just keeps falling apart, and my aggression and impulse control just keeps getting worse. I need to remind you, I'm not the chill person I am online, IRL, I'm pretty toxic and unable to socialize for the life of me. I'm working on fixing myself, but there are to many variables, outside of my control to deal with, doesn't help my sleep schedule is completely ruined, I'm waking up at 5PM, and I go to bed at like 6 or 7AM in the morning, that's... NOT GOOD. and of course, this is going to affect the mod. you've probably noticed multiple times I've tried to cancel the mod and just backed out of that to go back to working on this thing, that's just because or two reasons. for one, I don't enjoy seeing a mod just get a canned build, and most of the time, nobody follows through with it, it gets revived, you know the drill. and in this case, it's never canceled because of drama most of the time, it's just always, this fanbase is filled with creeps and toxic people who start drama and ruin people's lives. The fact most of you all have been supportive of the project and want to see us continue, of course, that's one of the reasons we keep going...

but also the second reason, is that the team doesn't wanna cancel the mod, there's so much effort we're putting into this, and most of us put our past differences beside and just passionately work on this mod. Dev hopes that the mod finally gets the recognition is deserves, same with Tim and everyone on the team. we want this to be the final update, and we've been trying to go all out with this.

We hope you enjoy the mod when it comes out, we keep saying it comes out when it comes out, because we're kinda in development hell, but somehow we're closer than ever to making this bitch a reality.

also I hope I can finally stop working on FNF shit for a long while. I need a freakin' detox from FNF, like three years of this shit?

anyways, it's 4am, gonna go attempt to sleep

-GiffanyCD (Isabelle)

It's Friday, so we gotta make a blogpost I guess

everyday we make progress, and everyday I hope we get Playable Darnell in Vs Nova someday... I want to play as funny Darnell he's so silly I love him....

-GiffanyCD (Isabelle)

newgrounds

I took a break from Nova development and decided to get some work done today, mostly just finishing up some art I meant to finish before my break.... ummm IDK the progress since last time, I keep forgetting I don't have as much shit to sketch out, which as someone who loves sketching, this is pain, but I should be happy, not as much work...

also every time I keep thinking the OST is complete, we redo something, so that's fun, anyways, shit's baking as usual

Tim, has a few words to say, to keep me sane

"uh, IDK, ok joe right foot creep, it's gonna be peak"

-tonotim7

also, we might make another survey, like last time, with input from Tonotim and Gaming on what you guys would be interested in or something...

I'm loosing my mind lookin' at that fucking cat

-GiffanyCD (isabelle)