...Or technically Happy Holidays anyway if you're not celebrating Christmas.

Okay, so here's a present for people who are following these news. But goddamn it, I hate having a stiff neck on a holiday I do give a damn about.

NEW COMIC, NEW DIRECTION

While developing games, ideas pop out and sometimes those ideas don't really necessarily work in the game you're developing, but what if you can use those ideas and put it onto another project? Instead of putting it inside a special game demo, this is made into a comic series. ...Which is something I would be saying except I'm trying to talk about a special that really isn't meant to be an intro to the comic, but beggars can't be choosers.

Yeah, this is the new comic series, Jonathan's Misadventure, a spin-off of JA as a comic, with the special being The Christmas Miracle. The comic is more or less a more comedic spin onto JA's plot and puts more focus onto the characters themselves. The comics are based on JA games I'm working on but you don't really need to read it because they serve as bonus material and not so much as a comic adaption of the JA games (Because how the hell are you going to implement how the player CAN define Jonathan Patchman in a linear narrative where the player isn't in control of what Jonathan does?). While the comics do contain spoilers by default, The Christmas Miracle as a special ultimately doesn't have any spoilers by default because there's no big stakes in the plot, it's more or less looking at how Jonathan and friends have a Christmas Party, hence why this logo is purple instead of green as it normally would have. Sure, it's not much but like social events in the actual games, you don't really need a big ass plot to enjoy it, it's more or less to relax within the atmosphere and enjoy the moments no matter how major or minor it is. Further more, they're all constructed within 4 panels. Why 4? Because I really like 4 koma mangas and I like to challenge myself with limitations. Plus, it's the format that I like in WarioWare DIY so this is something I prefer to do. Of course, they're formatted as a manga so they're going to be read right to left as usual.

Release date? I dunno. I suck at release dates. 2025 should be fine. I really don't know how long it will be, but I really don't plan on making it a long special. So far, I have 11 pages with some notes, 2 1/2 of a pages sketched, 1 3/4 pages done (The second page is incomplete because the last panel isn't finished with the needed text.), and a finished cover. This is steady progress considering I just started this in like mid December so there's not much I can do before Christmas arrived, not including making the comic site for it. Once it's ACTUALLY done and ready to be presented, I will post a preview of the comic onto NG as an art piece that includes some pages for the comic alongside with a news post for the comic.

OLD DEMO, NEW UPDATE.

Something that has been bothering me is the JA demo and it's annoying because it's not really perfect but I feel like the quality it's in isn't good enough as it should be. Now, to kill this inner unhealthy perfectionism, I decided to make a update to JA Demo one last time, which I will dub the "FINAL Update". Originally it was gonna add new content to an old ass demo that isn't going to have a final game (Yet. *cough cough* Jonathan's Adventure: reVISION *cough cough*), but I decided, "why make a big ass update for a demo?" And scale it back. Why do it now? Well, it's because I've lost the demo build and the only way to salvage this is use the old Jonathan's Adventure build as is. Does this invalidate the saves from the previous demo versions? I don't really know and I don't really care if it doesn't work, I mean, it's a demo for a game that won't come out because I already have a game that does that (It's Jonathan's Adventure: reVISION.) and what, the demo's like 10 minutes? It's the FINAL update as in the FINAL major update, minor updates may or may not come but don't expect me to add more to a demo, why do that when there's other projects that need that time and development? So what will the "FINAL Update" bring?

• QoL (Quality of Life) improvements for the demo. These mainly target how slow the game is at certain points and solve it by making them faster for the player's convenience.
• Bring back content needed for the game. Audio errors are annoying especially when the game bugs you about a stupid file that doesn't matter. It doesn't make the game unplayable, but this update will obliterate those annoying errors. But content have to be removed solely because it doesn't make sense to have achievements in Bickery Edition obtainable in an older version of JA considering Bickery Edition is on a new build and project, which won't make older saves work on the game because of the new changes towards its' database, including skills, items, maps, and such, meaning GameJolt achievements are no longer a thing.
• Bring back removed content. There's not much removed content I can guarantee (Unless I wanna get banned.) and I don't promise much to bring in this catergory.

So when will this update be brought? Probably in 2025, don't quote me on the date.

Yeah, so that's pretty much it. See you later guys and have a wonderful day.

I got one thing to say about this.

I like to thank the Elite Guard Barracks, the Audio Portal Cleanup, and also Exedor, because he's like the one mod that keeps appearing in the EGB board and also probably one of the people I think in my mind about the EGB. I mean, I was planning to mention him in this post.

Okay honestly, a Deity Whistle is something I actually never thought of achieving at all. Sure, there is glory and prestige to getting the Deity Whistle but it feels like it's more like something that just happened because I kept on mostly doing what I was doing and lo and behold, I'm a winner and I got this prestigious whistle. Guess this marks the finale of the Silver Whistle post, which is surprising considering how it's almost been a year since the Silver Whistle post. Obviously I don't remember my 1st post on the EGB which is where I started to climb the whistle ranks, but assuming I'm correct by my posts, it's August 8th, 2022. So I guess it took almost 2 years to do it. That's crazy but it makes me curious of how long it takes to get from something like a pure normal Whistle to the top of the creme Deity Whistle. I mean, it's not really a finale unless I deliberately go down to Garbage and then back up to Deity, but I'm fine with Deity and I don't see the point of just stepping down to Gold, hell, I see the Deity as now the BARE MINIMUM for me so practically this is the highest bar I set for myself. I'm happy as is and I don't need to change it further than that.

If it sounds anti-climatic, it's probably because I didn't notice myself that I got it in the first place, but since I did today, well, I guess it counts for a new blog post for everybody to read. Frankly I don't know what to celebrate for this occassion because my schedule's chalked up with "make birthday gifts to Natty on the 14th" and also "MAKE DEVLOGS DUDE, TOMORROW'S A SUNDAY". Thanks for reading this and remember to blow the whistle when you see something's really wrong.

Hoo boy, a post before my birthday within a week. Also, no jokes here, I know it's April Fools but I don't feel silly enough to make one ripe for the holiday. [it's rated m cuz none of them have content ratings]

Okay, so let's talk about my game projects so far. At the moment, I have two game projects. Yes, I know that I technically have three because Jonathan's Adventure: Bickery Edition (For new people, get used to the abbreviation I'm going to use, JABE.) but it doesn't count because it's probably TOO big to fit in Newgrounds to be uploaded as a game. I know that the game isn't finished, but let's consider how I'm building it: if I'm including stuff like a day system that has a mixture of social elements from Persona, contains voice acting, and not to mention multiple routes that can affect what ending you can get, and this also includes New Game Plus saves and also game behaves a bit differently once you've beaten it, then am I really describing a game that can fit under a 1 gigabyte limit? Definitely not and even if I knew how, there's going to be technical problems in the way to make it happen. I'm terrible at coding and working with code that I don't know how it works is going to be a pain. There's a reason why you don't see any of the devlogs from GameJolt to here and this is because it would be tedious to copy and paste here and also that JABE as a game alone isn't really appealing when you look at it at surface level, it's another fan game that uses RPG Maker with a Parappa the Rapper rip-off as the main lead. I mean my submissions' score is proof of it, so am I really going to post a game that people won't likely enjoy it because of that despite my game philosophy is "just because it's a fan game, it doesn't mean the writing nor the game has to reflect that." Snoot Game is my biggest case in point because of how it's better than the original game "Goodbye Volcano High", the game it's based on, mainly due to the character writing and its' plot. Not going to mention the art because it feels like a easy point to make; like of course Snoot Game has better art than GVH, I don't understand why GVH didn't use 3D models in the first place given there were 3D models for the character made in the game. I could just put this meme here instead of just elaborating a bit more of why Snoot is better than GVH, but point is Snoot Game is very influential to me and makes me want to make video games.

Now we get the JABE stuff out of the way, let's talk about the first project. In fact, this is the reason why I wanted to make this post because originally, I was going to make this project be done within April 1st, but I, as usual, overestimate how I'm going to make this game be done in this month or that month. At this point, I might as well stop it because I do it too much especially for games that wouldn't be done in something like a MONTH due to the circumstances, as most of these projects that I'm working on, aside from collabs of course, are handled ONLY by me as the developer. And to compare this from Jonathan's Adventure: Classic, me being the only staff feels like understaffed. I know that there's another guy that's also developing the project but problem is that guy's recently too busy on looking for Poppy Playtime content mills and making a Google Spreadsheet about it. So yeah... This is going to suck. But let's talk about it more on it. Because I like keeping the project a secret (Because I like surprises very much.), I'm not going to mention the exact details. If I had to describe what it is, it's probably something like a parody but like a remake of a game. Sounds contradictory but that's how I describe it anyway because that's how it's built. And that description itself makes me worry and this is a risk I take because of this rule I'm concerned of: "Your game must not be a modified version of someone else's work, including tutorial files." Now, the game itself doesn't share the same code and it's on a completely different engine, but because it's designed to be a game where it has a threshold of one end being playing the game exactly how it is with some modifications, and the other end giving you at least a completely different route sprinkled with random events happening (Which you can disable OR enable them to happen without any RNG by the way.) OR a new separate game that doesn't work with the expectations of the original game it's based on. I have a bad feeling that if it gets taken down due to that rule violation, I have to cut out one major chunk of the game, which I wouldn't think it's a bad thing for me, because like at least the other chunk is something we made, plus it's like ground zero, of course it's not going to be smooth sailing, at least there's something to learn WHEN there's something horribly wrong with it.

Now, another project, as I mentioned before, is something that I'm working on but it has no relations to JABE or the other project previously mentioned. If I had to describe what it is, it would probably be "hedonistic" because of how the protagonist is and also certain endings. It's a "safe" project and I say it like that because of how simple everything goes in the game, but I should note that this game barely has anything concrete for me to show, so don't expect everything that I say here will reflect the final product of the game. But the game is basically like this, the main protagonist, whether it's a boy or a girl, has a girlfriend (Yes, this makes it a LGBT-ish game only because the fact you can choose a relationship to be between a man and a woman or 2 women, no, this will not be a selling point of the game.) and these two order a pizza, then antics ensue. A reason why I characterize the project to be hedonistic is because of how I make the protagonist. The protagonist practically is a womanizer and so far, there are endings that dabbles on it. You can make the protagonist have a normal-ish relationship, giving you a neutral ending, you could make the protagonist make it spicy, and maybe add some extra girls in there, or fail and pursue a much edge-y ending. The reason why I do this is because I kinda like making a character where they're debatable stereotypical hetero cis male (Sure, it doesn't apply if you were playing as a woman, but the point still stands.) but also probably a stereotypical shonen protagonist. Of course there are going to be video games, TV shows, stuff like that thrown into the mix. If anything, if I had to compare what game to describe this game, it's Toilet in Wonderland, but I actually really like that game's style and you don't see a lot of VIPRPG games nowadays, mostly because these are games made in Japan and unlikely are translated in English. Hell, I've heard that the style of the game is something like a YTP which, as something I completely love and enjoy, makes a whole lot sense and I can see why. Hell, it even pops the question of whether or not you can transcend YTPs from video to video games.

yeah that's it okay bye

Epic fucking WIN.

I'm still alive and yes I'm still working on those gosh darn game projects back at GameJolt. Except there is one that will definitely arrive at Newgrounds FIRST and that happens to be something that's more of a surprise for a guy named Jonathan (No, it's not Jonathan Patchman, it's a Mexican guy who also happens to be named Jonathan.). Though it technically does involve Patchman in it, just not as the title character, since it's more like a Pokémon game. And no, Sasara/Sasha doesn't get in the main character seat. Release date? When it's done, and once it's done, I'll post it to NG's Game Portal.

So yeah, see you next time when I suddenly notice that I got the garbage whistle or the gold whistle.

Happy pride month.

Yeah.

Also happens to coincide with the day that Imasu and Sasara divorce in Tomodachi Life. So here's a memorial for it I guess.

*No, shipping is not a personality. Cry about it because why does a fictional thing matter so much to you that you're willingly to commit a felony over it?

Ok bye.

I'm allowing a completely new Discord server that'll serve as at least a community you can go to and at least talk to.

Just remember to read the rules, ya gotta be 13 to sign up for Discord, hence why this is rated T.

Note that verification is done manually because 1, this is a server that has MANUAL verification by the Admin team (Assuming I get enough people to do it.), and 2, this is mainly to emphasize it's a server FOR Newgrounds users, there's no way of having an automated process of having people be verified but also follow the criterias that the mod team has established of what account can be accepted and what to reject. Also yes, this is a link that isn't going to expire nor will it expire on how much people use it.

Have fun.

https://discord.gg/v3kqgGkZzc

So Happy Halloween people!

Unfortunately, as much as I wanted for a game to be on Halloween, which is Zane's Bizarre Candy Hunt, to be released exactly today, it will be DELAYED, but hey, it's not the worst thing. Could be Yandere Simulator, but then again, I haven't released a full game now, so it's a race between Jonathan's Adventure: Bickery Edition (It will not be released on Newgrounds, unlike ZBCH.) and Zane's Bizarre Candy Hunt, which I think you SHOULD at least give it some attention, because hey, it's not hurting anyone. Unless you're one of those freaks that love to spy on people, but that's not the point. While I wish I can show screenshots of the game, it's not exactly in a finished state, because I haven't gotten back the sprites for the main party, since the sprites for the party members are temporary and is just reused assets from Ink Game (Which is another project that will not be in Newgrounds, but I'll appericate your time if you just glanced at it, once the project is complete and ready to publish.) that are recolored for each party member.

Also don't you love it when it's the same day you get a sore throat. I just love being in bed on a closed school day and just intimidating a person suffering from a sleep paralysis demon because I'm feeling too dizzy to get my head straight. Hopefully it does not compromise the time I can use to develop the projects.

So anyway, see y'all on the next news post, hope you'll like the games I'll show.

'Ello everybody, how's your Saturday or Sunday going?

So basically guess what we got in this bag?

DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA, AND MORE DRAMA

Yeah, of course we're going with bad news first. If you wanted the good news, you should've skipped this one and once you were done with the other news, you come back this one.

Also I have to say this legal disclaimer: PLEASE DON'T HARASS ANYBODY MENTIONED IN THIS NEWS POST. I am sick of tired of people who fat shame, and frankly to tell somebody racial slurs is not acceptable in any given situation. You do not contribute to anything good if you do, since all I'm doing is just talk about this thing and give my non-personal 2 cents about it. This post is not meant to be a personal attack to you as a person. Capice? 'Aight, let's go.

Oh joy. I can't wait to hear the keystrokes from what I'm about to say. "Bickery when dadadada..." That garbage. So recently, stuff happened with Rockstar64 and JoeyTheMarillFan, or by the totally original username, Octillery, and it's basically drama stuff. Yeah, I know I'm expected to apologize a bunch of stuff, but I really hate writing apologies, mainly because I don't like writing of "I'm sorry" over and over and whenever I get the idea of writing one, I come back to myself saying "Hey wait... This crap sounds like a YouTuber apology." And then throw that idea to the trash. Not that I'll stop developing games, because frankly, I love making games and the media I enjoy. I don't need to point fingers at somebody and say "THEY'RE THE REASON WHY I CAN'T ENJOY AND DEVELOP SHIT ANYMORE!!" Because there are some stuff that needs to be cleared without just saying right now, since I wanna make this short enough for you to read, I can't just say "Hey, this and that is misinformation." and expect my readers to accept it, because to do that would be writing "you deserve a special spot in hell after what you did to me and my friends /srs /neg". In other words, to say something is misinformation and expect my readers to accept it would reflect as me too stupid enough to respect the reader to be able to understand what I write. Because gee, I wonder if the idea of an religious prison is so real, you should demand people to go there, even though it's mainly a excuse of "Do x or you're going to burn in Hell. This is apparently the same as disrespecting the holy spirit." and should put a /srs and /neg tag because I guess the readers would absolutely not take it seriously from the same bulletin that accuses of shit that there's no real proof. I guess looking into people's OCs is apparently stalking, despite there being no reasonable harassment from this. And also assume the reader's too stupid to know the concept of Hell and you obviously shouldn't go there. No, I wish I was joking about the quote, but considering this is a LEGIT from Kabi. Except I can't verify it because ridiculously the bulletin has been deleted and the bulletin I was gonna respond named "My experience with BickerySebastian" by Rockstar64 is also deleted. So W for me...?? I guess...?? I didn't really work for it so yeah, not a great win, but whatever, who cares. So I guess this renders this section arguably pointless now... unless somebody has archived it and sent it to my DM. Assuming I have this achieve... I have a bone to pick with the JA2 dev team. Most of it to be exact, because I am in somewhat okay terms with Samuel, the person who owns Sasara/Sasha/Satoshi Kuruma. Oh my bad, because of the fact that somebody on the team couldn't get the last name consistently on JA2, which is misspelled as KuRAma, I guess it's technically Sasara/Sasha/Satoshi Kurama. Yeah, I have problems with JoeyTheMarillFan, Juana, Rockstar64, and Kabi. And maybe Luigikaboy. Not so much of Thomas (He apologized for his actions in regards of him and 8bitAnt, so kudos to him.) and SlowSolid, since SlowSolid's just a tester, he didn't do anything wrong. In fact, if you were given a game as a tester, it's just a free game you can play. But because I'm working on another game for this Halloween, I think it's gotta be pushed back after I'm done with it and maybe work more on my projects. I mean... The news post for it was made out of me being "Wait... There's a threat to this, isn't it? I GOTTA GO ON AND MAKE A REPLY. But let's do it calmly." Since the really crappy bulletin took around 3 days to make. So, dear reader... Here's where you're gonna do:

Should I make a news post about the situation, assuming you said yes, no, both, or neither, why do you believe so? Make sure your vote count, and God blesses you.

And speaking of the readers...

EY WE GOT 50 FANS!!

So what I'm going to do for this?!

I don't know. I never thought I'd get this far.

Okay, so what other stuff do I got right now...?

We make the 8 Bit in the 8 Bit Ant... The Alternative Discord Server.

Yeah, there's another 8bitant discord server. Click on me to join!

Okay, so why make one? Well, the main 8bitant Discord server is down, so essentially you can't do anything other than read a message from Ant saying "Hey we shut down this server, Idk if I wanna make a new one or fix the server." So essentially, think of "my" server as an alternative version of whether it be the old server or the new server. Also note that Ant has no involvement in this whatsoever. Don't tell your friends that Ant's in it because he arguably isn't (At this time of me writing this.). And no, it will not be the new server, because Ant obviously hasn't heard about it (Again, at this time of me writing this.), so don't expect the same exact community and the exact same moderation with everything the same. Except we made the rules to be arguably like the old server but with the added bonus of allowing people to recommend stuff for the server. So ridiculously, this is like the Bosher Blue Back-Up Server! Except Ant isn't trying to swap ownership of either server, please clap if you do know the reference.

Also this is a very fresh server, so expect some changes to be made here or there.

So thanks for reading this news post. I'll see you guys on GameJolt for the next devlog of Jonathan's Adventure: Bickery Edition on every Sunday.

Diesel Busters: "Hello and welcome to Nowhere News, the country where the sun does not shine, but instead, where the moon always shines on.

On today's report, police has demanded a wanted criminal named 'Jonathan Patchman,' a criminal who was charged with originally with Drug Trafficking, Drug Manufacturing and Cultivation, and Drug Possesion. However, those charges was within a trial he managed to escape from. Police are actively searching this criminal, as they provided this mugshot of the criminal.

If you do see this criminal, please contact local authorities immediately.

Our next story is-Oh? Breaking news, a man named Alex Desperate has declared that he will find Jonathan Patchman within a public speech. We'll cut to the public broadcast right away."

Alex Desperate: "Jonathan, you bitch ass motherfucker. I'mma send you to prison and once I see that ugly mutt face of yours, I'll be using the said money for my college loans so I can stay away from my whore ass mother. You're a piece of shit that deserves to rot in prison."

Amelia Jr. Desperate: "Aleeeexxxx... Kabi wants to be in the public speech, she said so in the phone call I'm having."

Alex Desperate: "Amelia, I don't know about you, but this isn't the time to-"

Zane Desperate: "OH YEAAAAHHHH, ALL CAMERAS ON MY MONEYMAKER~!!"

Zane Desperate twerks in front of the audience and the camera. Vivid disgust ensues.

Alex Desperate: "Oh my God, Mom! Stop being a horny fuck whilst I'm doing my speech!"

Zane Desperate: "But Alex, can't the world know that [A very long beep silences what she's saying.] and that I want Adam back?"

Alex Desperate: "Dad's not gonna come back if you're just gonna act like a cam whore on PUBLIC TELEVISION!!"

Zane Desperate: "But I want Adaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam..."

???: "Hey... what the hell are you two doing?"

Zane Desperate: "Oh my God, it's a fox bitch! I need to activate my defense mechanisms!"

Zane does this so-called "defense mechanism" by twerking. Some people audibly vomit.

Diesel Busters: "Oh no... I think I'm gonna be sick, somebody call another anchor, I'm going to ruin the set on TV if I don't get out!"

Diesel immediately dashes out of the set, resisting the vomit to come out to prevent the studio's janitors from having a field day to clean his mess. A intermission is played out, while the studio scrambles to find Diesel's replacement.

Sylvester Weber: "Ugh... Don't you love it when some cunt on live Telly just shakes her own moneymaker? The utter audacity, mate...

Yes, this is me, Sylvester Weber. Yes, I'm related to that guy named Nerd, who happens to be my younger brother.

So what Diesel Busters was saying is that the next story is all about the missing ice cream that was stolen from a local donut shop. Police investigations has led to that the stolen ice cream was taken to an apartment complex in Room 413, but investigations in Room 413 are yet to be revealed. Some rumors say that the alleged room is haunted and that is not like any other room in the complex. Once you entered the room, the exit isn't the same door as you came in, but that's what the rumors say."

A mysterious snake-like entity dashes around silently whilst Sylvester speaks.

Camera Man: "...Did anybody see that?"

Sylvester Weber: "Camera man, this isn't the time for chatterboxes. This is live television."

Camera Man: "Could've sworn I saw something..."

Sylvester Weber: "And that's all of what we've presented today. This is me, Sylvester Kruger, and Diesel Busters, signing off.

You, camera man. what did you saw?"

Camera Man: "I-I just saw somebody... it was pink?"

Sylvester Weber: "Pink what?"

As the Camera Man describes what the monster looks like, it sneakily arises over Sylvester.

Camera Man: "P-Pink reptile thing? I think it wears something like the kids like."

Sylvester Weber: "And exactly what does it wear-"

The monster grabs Sylvester Kruger hard and escapes, the Camera Man hastily records the event within his cell phone.

Camera Man: "SYLVESTER!! SYLVESTER!!"

As the Camera Man chases the monster, the monster gets away from him by the step easily and passes through the door. Once the Camera Man sees the outside world, the monster is out of sight.

Camera Man: "SYLVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!"

Will Zane ever regain her family's love? Will Camera Man ever confess his love to Sylvester Weber? Will Sylvester Weber ever be seen again? Who is his kidnapper? And most importantly, will Zane publicly acknowledge what she's done wrong in the world of journalism?! Find out on the next issue of Nowhere News!

...Which is probably the next news post with a date as its subject.

Ayup. Here's the preview baby.

Also check the devlog for Jonathan's Adventure: Bickery Edition, because you know, this is promoting that game? Yeah, there's devlogs for it.

See you on the next preview. Yeah there's gonna be more previews. And there's gonna be a collection for all of the previews in the final YouTube version via the chapters.