good afternoon

[mjm]

hello! my name's mj, i'm new. i have no gender and go by any pronouns but tend to present masculine.

i found this place by stumbling through the grand 88x31 button trail of the web and the sheer Atmosphere of melonland-related sites is marvellous. i enjoy programming, making music, and consuming/producing various surrealist media. i've been doing the former since i was nine, the middler since i was 13, and the latter probably as long as i've spoken english.

interactable art is something that interests me greatly, and while i find myself unable to finish many large projects nowadays, i do have a very strong interest in gamedev, whether that be via a proper game engine or just raylib and a few libraries. i have a mostly undocumented weird worldbuilding project named Cal, and intend to at some point finish a game set in it.

if you want to know some of my other interests, they're visible on my profile here, and if you wish to know anything else about me then you are more than welcome to ask. looking forward to seeing what sorta stuff people here make and sharing some of my own!

[tanuki]

Welcome to the forum!!

Really cool that you have been interested in programming and music for so long. I will try and remember to give your stuff a listen to!! How close is your game to being demo-able?

you also mentioned since you've spoken English, is it your second language or did you just mean from when you were very young?   

Just followed you on tumblr by the way!! 

[Paprika]

Hello MJ ! Welcome to the Melonland Forum !

I'm not confident with coding so you programming stuff don't make sense to me but your music on BandCamp is quite interesting. I'll listen to it this week-end. So far I really like "SouthEast" on your "dewritten" album. If you had unlimited money / help for your game, which kind of game would you like to do ?

[mjm]

sorry for disappearing! life got a bit bad emotionally for a while so i half forgot about melonland.

How close is your game to being demo-able?

not very, it's very much in the conceptual stage at the moment since i'm currently putting most of my focus into my current album. hopefully once i get that done i'll feel more free to do some work on it, though!

you also mentioned since you've spoken English, is it your second language [...]

it's actually my third! i grew up in lithuania, so my first languages were russian and lithuanian, though i've forgotten the latter since i haven't had to speak it in ages. i can read and understand russian, and speak it a bit, but writing it is a bit hard for me since i've become so distanced from cyrillic in my day to day life. although, later this year i'm going back to visit lithuania for a week, so hopefully i can practice then!

Just followed you on tumblr by the way!! 

thank you :]

So far I really like "SouthEast" on your "dewritten" album.

thank you! that's probably one of the best tracks from my older stuff lol

If you had unlimited money / help for your game, which kind of game would you like to do ?

for cal, i'm a bit split between either a top-down rpg or a side-scrolling sandbox. which i'd do i think depends on which aspects of the world i'd like to explore, since it has a fairly extensive history and a ton of different named characters and locations. but, to be honest, i think i wouldn't mind working games of any genre; i just enjoy the medium overall!