Hello! And happy 2024! I have a few updates regarding some projects of mine that I'd like to share if you are interested.

Art Projects

• So, Super Mario Bros. Wonder SMB1 stuff is nearly done! I hope to have it released in maybe a week. I'm getting a bit burnt out of Super Mario Bros. Wonder SMB1 stuff, so there will be some things missing such as the Hoppycat characters and enemies. But I do plan on collaborating with a couple of my friends to work on some enemies and finish it all up for a V3.5 or so. But for right now, I will continue to work on polishing up everything, organizing things and finishing up the balloon and elephant characters and hopefully add a couple more things before releasing it. I will take a break from the Wonder sprites for a little while to focus on other projects.

• Now, update on the SMAS NES adaption project? It is almost finished!! I have the whole sprite sheet of Mario, Luigi, the enemies, blocks, etc done! All that needs to be done is Bowser jump sprite, the underwater tiles, and make a Daisy as a Peach replacement for if example, Luigi is saving a princess instead. That should also be done maybe within 2 weeks.

• I have also 3 new projects to work on as well! One is fix the SMW sprites and make them more consistent, two is to remake the Super Mario Land 1 sprites, and third is to fix up the tiles for Super Mario Bros 2, as brought to the table by Seby in my 1-UP Workshop group. So stay tuned for those things!

• I ALSO ALSO, plan on releasing some more of my unpublished art this year as well. I made a lot of stuff in FNF and think it's best to put it out there rather than keeping it hidden. I may or may not bring back one mod of mine sometime this year. *Wink wink*

Other Projects

• I have other projects as well such as the streams and all but I'd like to go in a bit more detail about those. After I finish making the Wonder stuff and Hellfire finishes Bowser's jump and I finish Daisy and publish both, I will start working on my stream overlay again while occasionally stopping to make a video and edit it every other week I get a chance to. I really want to sort of step away from pixel art for a little bit to focus on something I haven't done much of in the last 2 years, and that's make content and videos. And since I got my new laptop and already edited a video (which I'm having issues with thanks to Adobe Premiere's bullshit with VFR), I'm really wanting to continue to do stuff I used to do back then such as make whatever I wanted instead of whatever I can only do. When I was only using my Dell laptop for part of 2022, and all of 2023 up till December, it was limiting me from doing what I wanted. I wanted to play games and stream and edit and do a lot of other stuff that isn't just pixel art but since I have the ability again, I want to do as much as I can. I really want 2024 to be a better year than 2023 and I think it may be since 2023 cannot be topped. So let's get into the projects I have in mind.

• I want to do stream more often after I make my stream overlay, including a big thing I wanted to do which is play and try to "speedrun" and 100% every mainline Mario game. I know it sounds stupid but I'm passionate about Mario and I think it would be fun to do that. Obviously I'm not gonna do that all in one stream, I'm going to split it into however many streams it takes me, all varying in length. I'm taking heavy inspiration from Kosmic when he speedran every mainline Mario game in his Mainline Mario Marathon, and also taking a bit of inspiration from Nathanial Bandy when he did his videos on 100%ing 2D or 3D Mario games in a week or so on. So, before I do that, I want to do some normal streaming and some fun speedruns and some prep streams for the games I'm most afraid of as well as researching and making a giant spreadsheet of where everything is, how to get it, etc. Similar to what Nathanial Bandy did in his 100% 2D Mario Games video which I thought was a great idea rather than using something like Milanote to keep track of things since I didn't have specifics of where to get stuff, only what is required.

• I will be streaming on my Twitch hopefully sometime this month or next month. I need a controller + a new microphone so I don't know how long it'll be till I get either but I will hopefully get them regardless of how long. But I may just end up using my phone as a microphone for the time being and just play PC games till I get my controller since I think a new controller is more of a priority than a microphone. I will also learn how to show my screen on my Steam Deck so I can play more performance-needy games like Odyssey or anything with motion controls/gyro. I still have not figured out how I can show my screen like a capture card from my Deck to my laptop so I can stream it, but I will figure it out when I cross that bridge.

• I want to also film and edit every other week, I want 2024 to be a productive year where I try to get and be better after what my ex had done to me as well as my harsh life and stuff in 2023. I also hope to soon make some funny videos with Shadistar soon and post them too!

So TL;DR, I'm almost finished with SMB1 Wonder and the SMAS remake and will start 3 more projects that is fixing SMW, SML and some of SMB2's sprites too. I also plan on taking a break from pixel art for a small while to focus on other projects like streaming and making videos.

So I hope whoever cares enough to read this has a good rest of their day/night! I want to keep making updates occasionally so stay tuned for that if you're into it. That's all I've got to say! Thank you for taking time to read this!