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MrBrawls
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Devan Miller @MrBrawls

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Posted by MrBrawls - December 30th, 2023


Alright, lets get it out of the way: This year did not pan out well for me, but it has been an eye opening experience with how why I create things

I kinda just wanna do whatever I want? AI be damned otherwise, we artists can bend it to make something better than it can do alone otherwise, art requires human input either way.

So! What projects will be worked on coming out from 2023? Well…


Level Designer for ???

YEAH, I’m still on board with the team I’m in with making a game! It’s still gonna be awhile until you get to see what I’ve been doing. Hope that something new involving the game will come out soon!


A Hat in Time: The BIG Project

I can’t stay away from this game, man. Upon participating in the newest Mod Jam, I got that fire back and I’m pumped to resume work on the Big Thing involving Hat in Time. Unsure if I’ll show anything off next year, but who knows.


Hand Clans: Scene Alpha for S&Box

This lil side project known as Hand Clans v0.1 alpha got murked during the main game; S&Box, updating how games would work for it. Long story, but I’m planning on refurbishing the game for the new Scene system along with the planned update I was making for it. I hope to get this done next year the most, it’s my baby!


More Art…?

I dunno about this one, but I do want to make more art, but not on a time basis. There’s also the whole posting on so many different social medias at the same time, and quite frankly it’s annoying. I think I’ll come with a compromise for the other socials…

I’ll post on Newgrounds first, then Tumblr + Cohost later when I get to it.

I wanna represent Newgrounds more, it’s so cool that this site is still going to this day, and I hope one little bit at a time I help out. Maybe I’ll get into events this year? I dunno, I dunno…


That’s it for me! Happy new year, and here’s to a good 2024!


Posted by MrBrawls - November 1st, 2023


so what happened? wisdom teeth surgery and a whole lot of demotivation! but i'm ok now after the recovery and i'm gonna attempt the art thing again. not really a whole lot of updates this time, however...


ANNOUNCEMENT

i am working on a secret project that hasn't been detailed before! its not hat in time or s&box related, but existing projects have been put on the backburner since this project is honestly really freeing with what I wanted to do in the position i'm in regarding the project. Whenever i get the go ahead, i'll announce what i've been working on


that's it! hope I get back to art this month, ai still is a looming thought

fuck ai


Posted by MrBrawls - September 18th, 2023


I’ve been putting this off for awhile because one major thorn has grown into my life: Wisdom Teeth. God these things hurt so bad but I’ll get them out in October which thank god I can’t focus on a lot of stuff with this pain hhhhh


S&Box

Nothing to show for here, currently the game is undergoing some major client server changes and so it’s a pain period of time until that is done


Art & Other Stuff

Man I wish I did more art and progress to other but these teeth are a pain in the ass and I hope next update that I’ll be able to get some more stuff done



Posted by MrBrawls - August 5th, 2023


another month another blog, time to give some updates on some stuff


S&Box Content

Hand Clans v0.1 alpha is still in development, if one thing solo development has taught me is that i am HORRIBLE at multitasking with other projects lmao. Currently I'm working on the HUD rework and including a new system that will ship with the update. 0.1 will be BIG and i cant wait to finally fix this game.

If you haven't gotten access to the game already, recently Facepunch has started opening up key invites to active developers, so if you know someone that 's already in and might have a spare invite key, you might be able to play Hand Clans finally! (maybe not now, still working on 0.1 haha)


A Hat in Time Content

Nothing to show off for now, but while things have been slow on this front, I have been working on a few things! One lil' side project along with the BIG thing I wanna do for the game. Stay tuned!


WEEKLY ART PIECES WILL RETURN SOON THIS MONTH.

yEAH. i need to get off my ass of procrastination and do more art! I love art its just hard to come up with motivation to do it with all of this AI art shit going on, but I've come to learn AI can't really do unique artstyles great and I hope my style will be an exception. Speaking of...


VIRIDIAN.

I'm still going with Viridian's writing! There's many things involving it in development (a typeface, the book itself, character refs), and I cant wait to show it off! I've shown a little peek at the book with friends and its universally loved by the several groups i'm in; which makes me motivated to do more writing! You'll see character refs along with the weekly art pieces, so keep an eye out for those.


That's all for now, SUPPORT NEWGROUNDS!!!


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Posted by MrBrawls - July 1st, 2023


haven't spoken about anything for the past four months, so might as well catch everyone up


currently im taking a break from discord to improve on myself, not happy how things are going for me and I need to break out of the creative rut I've been in lately, so that's been the main focus along with finding a job


only thing that has been coming out has been some hat in time mods; which one got featured in the game's summer event this year which got me back in a good mood but it didnt last until the next day after the announcement


"what about the twitter?"

oh yeah, i deleted that on april fools because I really didnt like where the site was going and how hostile it was being towards smaller artists in terms of discoverability, and it feels nice to not constantly scroll down a feed and be upset of what's been going on that I can't really do anything about


that's really all i have; still need to get to improving my routine and tie up other things going on. maybe weekly art will return once im done with the self-improvement


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Posted by MrBrawls - April 8th, 2023


Hi it's been awhile, but its because I was in a gamejam and finished the jam version of a new game for s&box; the source2 gmod successor. if you have access to it, you can find it here: Hand Clans - mbrawls - s&box (asset.party)

Everything except the source code (i just cross referenced it i dunno how to code from scratch :,) ) and the default dev_sky texture in the debug map was done by me alone; including the models, textures, the firing sound, and animations. I'll hopefully keep developing this project as s&box continues development and have it ready to play whenever the full game/engine/whatever it is will be releases!

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Posted by MrBrawls - March 27th, 2023


TwoPiecesAWeek aint gonna be back, i got some stuff in development to build skills I wanna develop now that i realize i have time before the job market smiles to my direction (even then these projects will be in small development

  • a game for s&box (gmod successor), that's specifically made for a game jam from within the development Discord, I'll share that when im done. C# + razor be damned, but man source2 is fire
  • a big hat in time thing, you won't see it until it's done though. might get more solo levels out for stuff that doesn't make it within the big project. ue3 is hell compared to source2 :,(
  • more megadraws, i still wanna do art and some games really deserve the megadraw treatment. also there's the art improvement
  • original book series, kinda on the backburner but working on it whenever i dont want to work on anything else
  • very much the pet project: a minecraft modpack centered around the pizza tower and celeste movement mods with a race against a difficulty timer and an open progression questline. custom recipe coding has kinda ignited my love for modpack creation
  • who knows what else, if im bored i might make a standalone game or do something with roblox i dunno lmao

No promises on dates for these projects (except for the s&box game, that'll be soon since its a gamejam) but im still doing creative stuff, just not able to show them off yet :,) thanks for reading/still following on my socials.


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Posted by MrBrawls - February 18th, 2023


taking a break from posting for awhile. i need to find a job and i need to focus on that first. sorry


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Posted by MrBrawls - January 31st, 2023


Time flew by quick! Excluding one sick week for the first week of January, got a piece out for every week (Monday through Sunday) this month! Looking forward to doing more of these, especially the original pieces! I like doing the existing property pieces, but I like doing visual worldbuilding the most.


Week 2: The Abyss Creature of the Sea and The FireCore Beast | felt good about these, i love designing creatures


Week 3: Deemo :D and COMMANDERVIDEO / BIT.TRIP | two of my favorite rhythm game protagonists, had to draw them for this project at some point


Week 4:Bottomlurker. and Gustavo and Brick (the rat) | might go with this format, unsure though, i kinda like that I don't have to go in a strict theme. pizza tower rules btw


And that's all! Tomorrow is February and the job hunt is still painful. Reminder that my commissions are open if you want something like these pieces! Here's to eight more art pieces for this project!


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Posted by MrBrawls - January 1st, 2023


hi, for 2023 i'm gonna try to make two fully rendered drawings per week for the entire year, gonna call it Two-Piece-A-Week*

*(after this week, I got hit with the flu hard and I really don’t want to force myself to draw/render something that is rushed)


im still working with S&Box/Source2 map making and getting an actual job, and also writing Viridan (more on that this year as well). and maybe doing any commissions that come my way

anyway that's all, have a good year