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Hello, Celephaïs

2025.07.31

As opposed to Hello world.

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celephais dot dev

Things in the scene tanked recently, but it's slightly irrelevant. I've been meaning to get a secondary domain for game-related stuff and I only managed to put it into allocation in July.

For some reason it never sit right with me to lump game stuff together in my main site. People may enjoy looking at the visual things I do, but I had a hunch it was only as far as observing a gallery without ever having the thought of wanting to immerse in it.
Games and interactive fictions, in other hand, are meant to immerse the audience in. They also require understanding in too many things. I'd like to keep it only for those who can see the effort I put in trying to understand them.

I was not active on Celephais' Tumblr and I've been meaning to keep my devlogs there, but with how Tumblr deleted my freshly made side blog 5 minutes in because I wanted to customize the design (the said blog is yet to return), so that part got me wary.
I'd like to entirely move away from Tumblr and FANBOX because I like customization in my stuff, but also because I can't tell if there's any worth in keeping them up.

Things these days

Personally I did some really minor things here and there, and I'll still have to be somewhere for some more time. This year so far was a bit unfortunate that I didn't work on my games as much as I planned to.
The weather has been dogshit recently if you've kept up with the news.

There's one thing I worked on this February that I still like talking about every now and then. Working on Their Aftermath with Laby was really fun experience in itself because I think we made a good combination and we achieved greater heights together, although during that particular period a lot of things happened and end up making me completely inclined to talk about my projects/the projects I'm in these days.

Or I could keep it here.

What's in the future

Hard to be certain.

  • DESOPE is certainly on pause because I had to prioritize myself over making games (a.k.a. dead developer makes nothing)
  • At the moment I'm working on expanding CHRONIC+BLOODLUST, but with how the weather (see above) at the moment and how this particular game is yet to get indexed (or already deindexed prior, who knows), I'm not sure what to do. Asking for it to get indexed may take time at the moment, and it might even stay deindexed.
    • I plan to reupload my games on Newgrounds and BOOTH. The pages aren't live when this post is being written, but I'll just say it now.
  • I would like to remake some visual novels (the non-thousand words ones, specifically) as I feel like I have more confidence in various aspects as I raked more experiences.
  • Some other things.

Report concludes for now. The atmosphere barely beat the all-time low 2024, but for whatever reason if you end up reading this, thanks for being here.