Hello, I’m honestly still surprised this site gets any views,455 unique views this month so far. Yes, I know I had been working on a new layout for years. I made quite a few prototypes. Each one I couldn’t get right. Either functionally or color wise. Ex-artist Kim was never satisfied with my color schemes. I preferred simple she wanted complicated. Then when it came to technical side there was no middle ground. Functionally we wanted different things. Kind of an issue. Then she ran off with assets contracted under me. Which takes me to the next part.
So, some of you may wonder why the site is now a blog instead of Elvenmonk Studio’s official website. Well, due to Kim and the other artist we were working with both ditching me and running off with assets they were not supposed to take, as well as equipment, I’ve been too depressed working on Elvenmonk Studios. Everything I do I just remember the bad of the company. It’s… tainted to say the least for me. However, I started work to help my friend launch his company. There, I have no issue working. I have no bad blood. I find working under a new company name really helps. While my friend’s company isn’t in game development it still helped me find one thing that was wrong. I had been toying around with ending the studio, and site, for a while. Again, due to a lot of bad things that happened. Instead, I have decided to make it a personal blog and possible portfolio. Y’know, going back to its….. 4thpoint?
What do I mean by 4th? Well, the site has been a roller coaster of ideas. First it started with me posting anime gifs back in the early 00s, I think 03. Then I started to learn the basics of HTML and decided I would be the next eBaum’s. Where they strayed away from edgy humor at the time I did not. This version of the site oddly got popular. I remember telling 2 people in Jr. high about it and next thing you know I was getting so many visits from people at school. People started to ask me to help them make a website. After I grew tired of stealing pictures on the internet I tried to make a flash site. Here it was less a Newgrounds and more a personal dedicated flash site. But I am terrible at animation and art so this never happened. Then I tried to make an anime news site. Since there were so few of those, but manually adding in tables and text was annoying. So, I gave up on that after 2 months. Then I decided to make it a portfolio to show what I can do. At this point I really kind of gave up due to depression. I never wanted to work on anything for fear of being laughed at and fear of failure. So, instead of trying and learning. I did nothing and failed. This is a issue I still have, but I am working on fixing.
What’s in the store for the future? No clue. A friend and I are forming a new studio, name is not decided, and we are working on finishing a project I have been “working” on for years. I say “working” cause I was mostly coming up with ideas and that was it. Finally, I am putting the ideas in to practice, writing a proper design doc, getting tech made, and trying to string everything together. I haven’t programmed in years so I have to get back into that. Luckily my new partner is very agreeable, ha, and encouraging. Him and I have a lot of the same ideas and he is able to produce content faster then I can work, which is a first. I feel motivated for once because I am working with someone who can not only carry their own weight but exceed what I am pulling as well. This is inspiring me to get better. As for little ol’ Elvenmonk.net? It’ll be a blog. Maybe a portfolio. But, I will write here every now and then to express my thoughts. I don’t expect a safe space. You are free to disagree. I’ll write about anything so keep your eyes open for hard hitting topics!
If I remember I’ll try to write a post tomorrow. Things have been going pretty wrong lately so I might not be able to. Either way, toodles for now.
Holy crap this theme is ugly. I’ll have to find a decent one until I can make one.