SO - I was actually formulating a plan for a true sequel to my ancient Flash game Orange Roulette, hemming and hawing over the details, starting the prototype, and trying to maintain motivation while having doubts that I should bother with it at all. You know, the usual. And then, OF COURSE, some other dude releases a roulette game that becomes the talk of the town and gets major notice! I'm talking about Buckshot Roulette, which is in fact an awesome spooky game by Mike Klubnika.

I mean, in that short window of 13 years between the first game and my upcoming remake, who would have thought someone would beat me to the punch!

Anyhoo, rather than lose hope, I am embracing the situation of being seen as a Johnny-come-lately, and my Orange Roulette remake is coming along swimmingly. The fact that people are still playing my original Flash version, and still making videos about it, is amazing to me.

After I finish this I'll likely return to working on the sequel, now that I am confident I can pull it off with Godot and my questionable 3D design skills!

Thank you for your time. You can play the original Orange Roulette here on Newgrounds, of course!

Orange Roulette

It's always important to do some preliminary stretches before engaging in any strenuous sport.

Hiya! I thought I'd take this opportunity for some updates!

I haven't made a new cartoon in many years, but I am still fooling around in game development. I recently made a new version of Spike a Love Story with fully 3-D modeled characters and modern fancy shit! The current version was made in Unity, which I've been using for several years, since before they went public, tanked on the stock market, insulted their developer base, laid off people related to game development, and otherwise have been blowing chow.

I LIKE the Unity engine, but Unity corporate sucks ass! I don't want the drama of the game engine I'm using to overshadow my own drama of bad decisions and questionable actions, ha ha.

SO, I am now learning Godot, and so far it's pretty sweet. I have Mascot Guy ported over with all his animations intact, Spike smashes, so pretty soon their forbidden romance will begin anew!

I'm gonna try to put together a game demo during this transition, since Godot is capable of a web-based build, which I'll slap onto Newgrounds if I pull it off!

I still want to make cartoons, but the world's so high-speed fucked-up it's hard to keep up these days! Maybe one of these days!

Thanks to all you all who have watched my cartoons and played my games over the years!!!

Matzerath

OK, firstly I dusted off my Patreon for a new attempt at cartoon funding!
https://www.patreon.com/Matzerath
I'll be chipping away at stuff regardless, but some moola-based incentive would definitely be inspiring, especially in this strange future in which the Internet hates cartoons with adult humor.
I am taking notes for what I think will be a Grim Reaper-Balthor crossover. I got the key joke conceived, now I have to form a story around it! This is probably not best practices, but screw it. Patreon subscribers will get the inside dope on my progress! I'll drop a few tidbits here too I GUESS.
As always, thank you Newgrounds people. All my best reviews live here!
 

Oh lordy I'm trying to learn Open Toonz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVthnliKojQ

My newfangled build of Orange Roulette is now on Newgrounds! It has two new modes -- local two-player, and Single Player Royale. It's running in a new engine (Haxe+OpenFL+HaxePunk), and may perform faster for some of you (I hope). I may make some aesthetic touches and whatnot in the future, but this will be my last announcement as regards this ancient game of mine I felt compelled to mess around with. Thank you for your time.
Orange Roulette:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596354
 

Yes, I have done a terrible thing and ported Orange Roulette to Android. You can get it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heyhouser.OrangeRoulette
And the Newgrounds original lives here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/596354
Those of you with the ability, let me know that it works OK!
I also did another terrible thing -- it now has local two-player. Finally you can test your luck against that of your close, so close, close enough to touch friends that are in the same room. If you found this game ever so easy against the AI, now you can prove your psychic powers once and for all against other humans!
These updates will hopefully be available on the Newgrounds version of the game soon, as well. I ported this whole thing to Haxe, which outputs to Flash as well as Android, but I have to reintegrate the medals and all that stuff, which may or may not be a pain in the ass. We shall see!
Thank you for your time.