Alright so first off, I think I need to explain where I went for like almost 3 years.
StuffedPasta Lore Dump
If you don’t know me, I was the guy creating the game NEON, which was supposed to be a successor to a good old game called Tainted Elysium. But, I kinda just dropped off the face of the planet back in mid 2023. Between life, undiagnosed ADHD and some other neurodivergent stuff made it insanely hard for me to motivate myself to do anything. I was also unemployed and had unknowingly surrounded myself with people who enabled that behavior.
Since then, I’ve been medicated for ADHD, made some healthy lifestyle changes, going back to college and working part time on the side. I’ve also been fully recreating NEON in my spare time, hoping to finally make the game I wanted to in the first place.
Enter Neon Fantasies.
I’ve learned a lot more about programming, specifically python and GDScript in Godot. I’m keeping feature creep in check this time around, and I’ve even found a Godot plugin that lets me draw and animate vector art. That part is super exciting since TE’s body system used shape tweening in flash, which until now I never found a proper way to recreate without immense amounts of work.
I decided this time around to recreate the core systems and interactions that TE had before I really go on to do the crazy stuff I have planned. I’m also focusing heavily on making systems scalable so that I don’t have to go retrofit my code later with more spaghetti.
What I have now isn’t an insane amount, but I’ve got more done than I ever did with the legacy version of NEON, which code wise was an absolute disaster. With the new version, I also have the ability to quickly add more of certain bits of content without causing any disruption to the rest of the systems.
I’m pretty proud of what I’ve got here, and I plan on adding more soon, but school work is piling up and I want to shift my focus to that for a little bit. I planned on having the initial version of this out last September, but I was unhappy with what I had and started fresh with a better knowledge of programming.
I even learned how to use Cloudflare so I could host it myself, letting me keep it off of Itch and hosted entirely on my own website. This also means I can add some kind of mobile support in the future too.
I dropped the link at the bottom of this post if you wanna try it out.
TL;DR if you don’t wanna read this (don’t worry I wouldn’t either lmfao):
Mental health issues can kick rocks, I’m now medicated, NEON is now Neon Fantasies, and I have the motivation to continue working on it once I catch up on college stuff.
also It’s up on this website now:
There is gas/burp/fart content, which for the most part can be disabled in the kink settings in the main menu for now. something might have slipped through the cracks but I think I caught it all.
I’d love to hear opinions on what’s there too!
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