A video game a longtime friend of mine has been working on. Give it a play and provide feedback!

I wrote the main menu music, co-wrote the level clear theme, and did the voice of the narrator.

https://softhornet.itch.io/chemandos-demo

Every small action you make affects the whole story. Make sure they are good ones as often as you can.

Even though I do have trouble processing stuff positively currently due to mental issues correlating with my reward system, I am truly grateful to the people that enjoy my stuff. It's not really about fame or notoriety at this point for me, but more about giving people the same kind of feeling that music composers used to give me when I was younger.

I won't lie in saying that I also do have a goal in making money at some point even though I hate money just for the necessity of living and eventually moving to live with my long-distance partner whom I love dearly so I can start a new life with him, collaborate together as musicians, and maybe even finally getting the proper treatment for my condition through a better environment and more well-trained doctors; we'll see what the future holds.

Sorry, just really busy and side-tracked with stuff at my job and personal life. We'll see though.

If all goes well, I will be finishing a track I've been putting off for literal years.

Had a lot of fun making it and Dungeonation's material provided an easy source of inspiration for the aesthetic of the music.

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/7461625ad96d6b3344c813093c8d8d87

Ever since I embraced myself I have become so chaotic, but in a calm way? All my life I've felt pressured into being normal around others, to be acceptable around society so that I may be well-liked. I even got really good at it honestly, so much so that I thought it was who I really was only to have that reality be shattered. I ignored so much about myself. My love, my shadow, my light. All that was true about me was thrown into a psychological prison never to be seen or heard. At one point they wished to be free and escaped in full-force through a mental breakdown. It was a curse that I formed that eventually became my greatest blessing. I'm weird, extremely...but that's just fine to me. It's more unnatural to pretend to be normal than to just be what I am... strange, truly strange.

I've been thinking this for awhile. Why are those who have reasonable reactions to their surroundings and circumstances called broken? These people are given therapy they cannot make time for, medication they cannot afford, hospital visits that lead to being made worse than before and now attaining crippling debt on top of it. Why do WE need to be fixed? It's our environments that need to be fixed more than anything else. It's a perfectly understandable response to be anxious in times like this. Depressed. Even a little crazy honestly. We're not broken, we're merely mirroring the state of our world. We are the us of the times.

Since I have been on the internet, I have struggled with finding a username that fit me perfectly. Autopilot, PrototypeX, TheDukeofJuke, etc...

I was having trouble especially deciding between "Jojo Dreamstar" and "TheDukeofJuke" since one is super serious and the other super silly, then I had the crazy idea...What if I combined them? >:)

So yeah, for some this means nothing (which is fine), but to me, this is a big victory.