2025 December 31
It's the end of an odd-numbered year, which apparently means it's time for me to take my past two years of ZZT art and creations and bundle them up into a "zine-like" format for public consumption.
Apparently I haven't posted about them here before, or at least they weren't on the ZZT page until just now. This has been rectified.
The three zines I've made are as follows:
- 2021: Gadfly Goods Grab Bag
- 2023: Channel G: Gadfly ANSItronic Video Entertainment System
- 2025: Gadfly Goods Grub
In addition to those zines, I have one last piece of artwork for the year. It's a portrait of forum regular and friend of the show Cera Sizzle! This picture is also on the art page and that third zine up there.
She based her lovely PNGTuber portrait off a character from an obscure PC-98 shmup. I think it looks quite nice myself. :)
2025 December 20
It's that time of year again -- the most wonderful time of the year!
As is becoming tradition at this point, I have another Christmas card full of holiday cheer, this time featuring everybody's favorite catgirl from the Samantha-verse, Felicity Clawson!
You can also see her on the art page!
2025 December 18
Minor update: I was talking with Snorb the other day, and he mentioned that he wished that he had told me to draw his character's Mariko's hair like Rydia (from FF4 DS), rather than like Sailor Neptune. Not being one to disappoint a friend, I redrew her hair (don't worry the original pic is still available).
As always, it's on the art page.
2025 November 17
Despite being busy with Real Life things, I somehow found the time to play through a game I've never played before, and then write a review for it. The game in question is, of course, the Mega Man for the Game Gear, which is a perennially topical game that people are always talking about. Apologies if that game is too popular for your tastes, but you'll just have to live with it.
Readers who make it all the way to the end of the review will be blessed with an original piece of pixelwork.
2025 November 5
Recent life events have transpired that may decrease the frequency of updates on this site for the foreseeable future. I personally am not too bothered by this, but I figure that those in the audience ought to be aware.
In other news, I have a new addition to the ZZT page! It's a little game called Samantha's Sister Wants a Bottle of Milk Right this Second. It's my submission to Oktrollberfest 2025, though it's very light in terms of scope. I had bigger plans, but I lost focus on them while I still had the time to put work into them. I tried making slightly smaller plans the other day, but this Plan B immediately blew up into a proper sequel in terms of scope. Thus, we have this Plan C, which I made from scratch in about a day and a half.
As for the game itself, it's effectively a prequel to Samantha Arantes Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk, but it also elaborates on some characters and lore introduce in last year's Awful Dates Done Quick. People seem to like it, but I kinda wish I could have done just slightly more with the concept.
Anyhow, one of the boards is 21 kilobytes (above the standard limit if 20 kB), but I was testing with the modern fork "ClassicZoo" which increases that limit, so I think I accidentally trolled myself into not making a ZZT game. C'est la vie...