Tomorrow is Botany Presser's 3 year anniversary. I, at this moment (8:30 AM Feb 12 2024), have nothing planned but I'll see what I can do as the day goes on.

Everywhere I look, I often see lots of bad things happening to people. To the world. And I hate it. I hate that things are this way. I want to better the world but I can't I have no power, I have no control over peoples lives. I don't think most people on Newgrounds, let alone scratch know what Balloonshroom is. I'm tired of seeing this. I'm tired of sitting around watching all of this unfold. I want to change things. If I could even help the world in one way, anyway I would be grateful. I'm just exhausted from seeing so much negativity in the world.

This probably seems a little weird for me to post suddenly but it's just, I'm tired of making low quality art all the time for basically no one. I don't enjoy making all this art anymore. I only make art because I want to make others happy with it. But other than a comment here and there I don't see anyone happy from it. Does anyone even enjoy my art?

Ever since December 27th 2023, I've been making tons of art nonstop and I've never felt tired once but today I can't seem to find the motivation to start my next art project. No matter how much i try, I can't seem to bring my self to work on it.

I don't like this.

I do.

I wish I could go back.

The Floating Behemoth Approaches.

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be popular on Newgrounds. To be recognized for your talents. To even be talented in the first place. It must be nice being able to have your creations highly regarded among other creators and to have such a wide impact on your community. It must be nice even being known to many. It must be nice being cared about. I wouldn’t know much about that. I wouldn’t know much of anything about being influential.

In 10 days, Balloonshroom will turn 3 years old. Does anyone even care about this? Does anyone even know?

2023 was... not the best year for Balloonshroom, but I'm sure 2024 is definitely going to be a great year for me (I probably shouldn't get my hopes too high though.)

By the way. here's the game is was making for Christmas 2023. It's Incomplete though but if any Scratchers on Newgrounds want to finish it for me that would be nice.

Merry Belated Christmas To All On Newgrounds.

I hope you have- er, HAD a Wonderful Christmas yesterday and I hope you have a Happy New Year next week.

Where I've Been:

You may be wondering why I missed the opportunity to tell you this on Christmas Day (To Be Honest, there's a high chance you don't care to know. You probably didn't care or even notice I was gone.)

On December 5th 2023, my laptop broke and I had to get it fixed. I got it back today, after Christmas. I wish I could have been able to make this post on Christmas.

Remember This Post? Looks like the thing I was worried about (losing access to my accounts) ended up happening anyway. I forgot things can break.

The Projects Left Unfinished:

I have some other bad news. On November 29th 2023, I started development on a game that I was planning to finish by Christmas (or Dec. 15 at the earliest) but due to the laptop issue, I couldn't finish it in time. I was also planning on making an art piece for Christmas too (I didn't start it yet.) The projects were Christmas related so I can't just release them now, after Christmas (That would be... weird, to say the least.)

Looking Back On The Year:

Overall, I feel like I had much less of an impact this year than the first 2 years, especially with the hiatus I took from Oct 2022 to June 25th 2023. Sure I made some art in the latter half of the year but comparing that with all the games i made in 2021 and the art contest in 2022, this year feels rather empty in comparison.

Some Regrets:

Honestly I don't like the way Balloonshroom turned out. Don't get me wrong, Balloonshroom turned out a lot better than i ever imagined it could but I wish I could have had more of an impact in not this year but throughout all of Balloonshrooms career. I wish I could have made the projects I could have made. I wish I had more influence with the way things are in the world. If only I had the support I needed to do these things...

Hopes For Next Year:

Hopefully the regrets I have for 2023 will be solved by next year. Who knows, Maybe 2024 will be the year Balloonshroom finally takes off like I wanted it to. Though, I did say that for 2021, 2022, and 2023 and those years didn't take off. Maybe things will be different.

Thanks for listening to my thoughts. Happy Holidays from Balloonshroom.

(Edit: Dec 31 2023: this technically counts as my recap so I will tag it as such.)

New art based on a classic one panel comic of mine is available now on Scratch. It will be arriving on Newgrounds at 7:00 PM.

Edit: Available Now on Newgrounds.

Happy Thanksgiving to all on Newgrounds.

I've got new art to show to you at 6:00 PM. It's not exactly based on thanksgiving but it's thanksgiving related.

(P.S. I'm probably going to post it up to 1 hour earlier on My Scratch Profile)

Available Now on Scratch

New art available now on Newgrounds.