Um... Hi guys, long time no see, or at least for me it was too long.

I'm doing this quick update just to say what I've been doing a while ago, especially because I had already ended this period and still did not have any announcement or thing besides that Remy fan art. It's not that I feel obligated to do this, or to continue, but is more like I think that just leaving without saying anything would be like really shitty on my behalf.

So, for the whole 3 of you who wonder what is going on with Alex, I had already finished a level of the second world, I think the development of new levels and the cinematics would be really easy, the problem is that sprite work, coding, and level design is not the only thing that I have to worry about to make Alex the cat a Reality, I have to worry also about music. I gave my games the benefit of just don't have music before because those games don't need music, but this game DOES need music; the worse part is that I'm an Engineer Student, not a musician, for that matter, I don't know anything about music and my music teacher in high school hated me. So.. what do we do? Welp... there are 3 options for this kind of problem:

Solution 1: Contract a videogame composer

Problem: I am broke AF, and music costs a lot.

Ok, from what I had read on Reddit and other sources, there's a problem with downplaying the role of music in video games. Music is a fundamental part of music and I don't want to leave the wrong impression. I'm not saying that it's too expensive to pay that much money for music, just that it's too expensive for me to pay for anything right now.

Solution 2: Find free music

Problem(s):

• It's hard to find pieces, especially for chiptune.
• I couldn't find any music that fit with Alex's tone.

So… that leaves the third and most terrifying option… Learning how to actually compose some music.

By now I’m being self-taught and I know that composing music is a really hard task, especially if you are self-taught, but I had learned a lot of stuff by myself, like game development, video editing, drawing, and pixel art, even if learning all of this took a lot of time and even with that I’m not really good doing all of this. So I think this shouldn't be so different, will take more time but I think that I could do something passable for the end of this or the next year If I really try. I won’t be showing any of my attempts to do anything in Newgrounds because I’m just realising garbage at the moment. I’ll try to do more stuff at the moment and check more information about musical composition. So that’s all for now.

So... yeah, you can check the game here.

As I said earlier, the game is still in its beta phase. I´m still working on it, but I wanted to make sure that I had something to share with all of you. Also a big thank you to Vard07x, that helped me with the English translation.

If you hablar español, puedes revisar el juego en los siguientes enlaces : Newgrounds | Gamejolt.

Ok, now I can talk outside of formalities. In the previous post, I mentioned that I didn't have plans for the next 4 levels to be on NG. Now I'm 100% sure that I won't do it. Don't get me wrong, my games have more attention on this site (thus I can receive more feedback) but I HATE working on HTML. Some mechanics don't work as intended on Newgrounds and that infuriates me. So... yeah, no more Alex in the future.

That's also the reason why I make the English version the 0.1.1 version. I received some feedback since the last game so I decided to improve some parts even if I think that some of those problems were generated due to the language barrier [ESP MEANS SPANISH].

I was also talking with Vard about making a manual-like tutorial for the game controls and some mechanics. I think it would be interesting but I have to first analyze the making of a Gameboy and then try to design around. Anyway, I think I might give it a try. I have to return to classes in some days so Alex will have to wait for at least one to two months.

So yeah... that's all I wanted to say. I know that I don't get to answer all my comments or reviews even if they are few but I read them, so I encourage you to tell me what you think.

Saludos my amigos! Remember my earlier news post? Well, there's finally a Demo for the game. I use the word "Demo" but actually is more like an open beta (?. Another thing to note, currently the game is in Spanish cuz Spanish is my main language, but an English version will come soon. However, the English version is planned to be just the 0.1 and Newgrounds exclusive, there is no plan for a Gamejolt full English version.

If you hablar español, puedes revisar el juego en los siguientes enlaces : Newgrounds | Gamejolt. Te recomiendo la version de Gamejolt debido a queue para pasar el juego a HTML tuve queue hacer ciertos cambios, igual espero queue lo disfrutes.

Anyway, that's all for now.

So yeah... that's it.

It'll come soon, the first world and the basic mechanics are already done and the game jolt page + the English Newgrounds demo is in process.

There's a video of the intro if you want to check it out.

I had this idea in mind a long time ago. I don't think I´m going to make this, so I share my ideas in case someone needs inspiration. As I said before, English is not my main language so there will be some typing mistakes.