Still alive!

So I just logged into wordpress and apparently it’s been 23 days since the last post! So much for daily blogging, huh?

It’s been a crazy 23 days though, I can assure you that.

Right after our last exam at uni (which I reckon went rather well and I’m excited to find out what results I got in it) we went straight on to the process of putting the entirety of our belongings into boxes.

If you know me in person, you probably know that I am very much of a morning person and really dislike going to bed late. “Late”, by my definition being after 10pm. Well let’s just say that packing didn’t stop until midnight, and that we had to get up at 6:30 the next day to pack the rest. Not one of my favourite things in the world, although I have to say I rather enjoyed the experience (despite feeling completely and utterly exhausted). Apparently, putting things into boxes is weirdly nostalgic. Don’t ask me why.

Me and Matt decided to film the process and add some nice nostalgic music to it, so if that’s something that tickles your interest, you can find it here:

At this point we had three days (during which I must add, we didn’t have access to any form of Internet connection) unpacking everything again and trying to make a strange empty place into somewhere we could call our home are refuge for the next year.

The first night felt incredibly lonely and scary, although I can imagine it would have been much lonelier and scarier if Matt hadn’t been sleeping next to me.

At this point my brain and body was at it’s limit, and I just needed an early night. But of course by the time we were done putting the bare minimum of things away, just enough to make some dinner, it was already later than I would have liked. And dinner of course took a ridiculous amount of time despite being an instant-type meal, since we had to figure out how to use a gas cooker. Also since we didn’t have a bin. Nor bin bags really.

But still, around 11pm we were ready to go to sleep. Or so we thought… Turns out, when we tried to make the bed, we found that the headboard was full of hair, I’m assuming of whomever lived there before us. When I say full of hair, I don’t mean one or two. I mean I thought the pink colour was a few shades darker and greyer than it was until I got closer and realized.

So that started yet another lengthly process of trying to figure out how to use the hoover, realize it’s not working and then unscrewing the headboard and putting it away all together. Not fun.

Surprisingly, I ended up having the best night sleep I had had in months. It was either a really comfy bed or, more likely, my exhaustion had finally caught up with me.

Fortunately for us, the rest of our 23 days unplanned blogging break were way nicer! Right after moving in (I mean really, we aren’t fully 100% done unpacking yet but we’ll get there eventually, right?) we started packing our bags yet again and got ready for our trip to Spain! It wasn’t much of a trip for me considering I live here, but Spain is so much more excited when Matt is here as well! Being with a funny and very pale looking English person opens the door for me to experience all of the more cliché tourist parts of the island in which I wouldn’t want to be seen on my own. We got to look at different caves and different fireworks, went to different mountain places and different beaches, had fancy dinners in fancy restaurants and generally had a very nice time.

Matt is back in England now, so these past few days have been a little bit less hectic. I’ve actually had some time to work on Miku RPG! I’m trying my best to get as much progress done as I can before I’m back in England (in like 5 days), so I should get going with that again!

I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful and amazing day!

– Marta

Last Night, Good Night

Last night I don’t think either of us slept very well. Because of my incompetence at making gifs for the last blog, we also went to bed quite late. The combination of these factors has led to a less than productive day today.

After dragging myself out of bed, I went downstairs and made breakfast. I have to say the microwaved porridge that I made this morning was outstanding. After breakfast and showering, we set about doing some revision for next weeks exam. By which I mean I played table piano, and Marta went on Twitter.

The next exam is actually almost relevant to the degree we’re studying. It’s called Electronics IV, and on the surface there’s nothing particularly difficult about the material. In fact, one third of it is stuff we’ve done in other modules several times, and most of the other stuff we’ve had to learn independently for lab sessions. Doing tutorial questions on it, however, has been challenging. I’ve been having to look at the answers to get information necessary to answer the questions, as it wasn’t given in the questions initially. As usual, the lecture material is basically useless, as were the lectures for that matter.This worries me, because if the exam is like that I’m stuffed. So not the best day in that respect.

As well as the revision, we received an email from the estate agents today. They wanted us to sign off a 21 page contract for the apartment we’re moving to in 12 days. Which was fun.

On the bright side, Miku RPG development is steadily progressing. Yesterday I managed to get multiple maps loaded, and switched between them in the map editor. We also got a little piggy walking around which was very exciting. After tweaking a few bits, and getting rid of some bugs, I’ll be starting work on portals – that is, the ability for the player to be transported to a different location on a different map. This probably sounds outlandish, but will primarily allow the player to walk through doors into buildings. So it’s not actually that exciting, but still very necessary.

And on that note, I think I’m going to sleep for a thousand years. Good night.

-Matt

 

Ramblings of a Tired Pixel Artist

Today has probably been the least productive day for me in quite a while. Someone’s car alarm went off at 11 pm last night and it took the owner almost an hour to get themselves out of the house and turn it off. Either that or their battery ran out. There’s some very dense scaffolding outside my window, (which our landlord promised would be removed by December, 5 months ago) so I guess I will never know which car it was.

The scaffolding however, isn’t dense enough to keep the sunlight outside (and neither are the almost transparent pink curtains), which is the main reason I have a tendency to wake up at and around 6 am in the mornings.

I did not get out of bed at 6 am this particular morning, but the only benefit I got from that was a two hour snuggle session with Matt. Not that there’s anything wrong with two hour long snuggle sessions, but as a result of all that I am now very tired.

I was also feeling very sad earlier. I felt like I had basically wasted my entire day (which I basically have) and like I just wasn’t good enough to do anything. Lack of sleep has a tendency to really put me down.

But Matt, being the most wonderful boyfriend in the world, got his guitar out, forced me out of bed and made up a random love song for me. I’m not quite sure how he does it but he’s the best person when it comes to cheering me up. Especially considering that he had the same amount of sleep that I had and he probably was having a bad day as well.

I’m not quite sure where this post is going, I think what I’m trying to say here is Matt is awesome and also I’m tired but also Matt is wonderful. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

Despite, having been incredibly unproductive today, I still managed to get a few pixels done, so here they are, for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

Both of these things still need some polishing, but it’s better than nothing I guess. As for uni work, I really did do nothing of that today. But I know tomorrow will be better and I know that I can’t be perfectly productive every single day. So it’s okay. For now, I’m going to bed. Good night!

Oh, actually, before I go to sleep:

This blog has actually gotten some views in the past few days, which is absolutely awesome! So I just wanted to give you all a big thank you for liking us enough to read our random words as we both strive to do our best to get better at this blogging thing as soon as possible. I know we (or at least I, cause let’s be honest, Matt is just naturally gifted at this) aren’t very interesting at the minute, but I can assure you I am trying my best to make these blog posts interesting while at the same time staying honest with you and with myself. I want to make this a little safe place to put my memories in for when I’m older, and I look back at this massively time taking Miku RPG project that will take us so long to achieve but that hopefully should help us get started in our career as game developers. I want to remember this as a fun and interesting time and I want to make it interesting for you guys as well. So thank you for sticking around, I love you all ❤

Good night

-Marta