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January 2025 | Plans for the Year

Posted on 11/01/202506/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Welcome to 2025! In this post, I recap 2024, and talk about my goals for the year ahead. Check it out!

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DevLog #3 | Learning

Posted on 11/01/202506/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

In this first DevLog of 2025, I dive back into Unity and face the fact I forgot everything. I also talk about what comes after the RPG!

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ArtLog #3 | Forest Pond and Other WIPs

Posted on 11/01/202506/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

In this first ArtLog of 2025 we catch up and get to know some knew projects I’m working on! (Includes a cool image of the process that birthed a Whale!)

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December 2024 | Busy Season

Posted on 05/12/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Progress on the WIP Another month passed, and my progress with the projects – all of them – stagnated. I’m sure those of you who work can relate when I say that after some labor, especially writing-related, trying to hop on our own projects can be a struggle. I wonder how my husband does it,…

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November 2024 | Freelancing and Restructuring

Posted on 13/11/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Project Rialar and Coming Shorts This month has been crazy when it comes to freelancing. It’s the holiday season with Halloween and Christmas, after all. While the flood of client projects has affected my other two endeavors of art and game development, I tried to make sure that I progressed my main passion, writing, at…

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DevLog #2 | Learning

Posted on 13/11/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Summary The past month, my time working on these passion projects was drastically cut due to the influx of freelancing work. ‘Tis the season, after all! Despite this, I managed to progress through some pretty big issues that popped up when I plowed through the learning. Issues such as pink textures, broken UI, and buttons…

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ArtLog #2 | Forest Pond

Posted on 13/11/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Summary As with my fortunate misfortune with Game Development, my art project has suffered this month due to the beginning of the Holiday Season. If you’re in any sort of commercial business, I don’t envy you! All this hassle with the Halloweens and Christmases… It gets hectic, to say the least. I did learn, however,…

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October 2024 | New Beginnings

Posted on 04/10/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Work in Progress and Short Stories As the year 2024 is soon coming to an end, I have a lot of threads to close, so to speak. I’ve published my first real Short Story here on my website (Go read Rocco!), and even showed off my pixel art skills as I made the cover for…

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ArtLog #1 | The Forest Pond

Posted on 04/10/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Summary As this is the first ArtLog, let me start by saying that you should check out my Instagram! Self-advertisement aside, you can actually get a good idea of what I’ve been up to there, as I keep posting my pictures when they are ready. I’ve been wondering if I should do that on Pinterest…

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DevLog #1 | Learning

Posted on 04/10/202406/02/2026 by Mrs. Vana

Summary I started learning Game Development a while back. It must be years by now, but I never took it very seriously. Now, however, as I see how games can boost my creativity in both art and writing, I decided to put more effort into it. Well, that and the fact that it would be…

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