SG X BBTAG Update #6

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Skullgirls X BBTAG update series. In the last update, I shown you how my projects are becoming a masterpiece even more after I added Feng, Minette and Venus and shown you Christmas in her Yuzuriha palette as a surprise. And now, we're moving on to this next update of the series, so let's dive right in.

Before Crossplay:

After Crossplay:

We'll start with the elephant in the room, which is my Discord server's banner art. Christmas is now added to even out the number of characters facing Marie. I also fixed some of the errors on few palettes that were colored wrongly, as well as the quality of Feng, Minette and Christmas, adjusted the position and updated Marie's picture to her new one, which is better than the other one and shows that she is unleashing her EXS without the Skull Heart and that's the fun beauty of her Orie palette. You'll see them in later projects.

I told everyone on X that I am planning to make another Twitch channel that will be focused on streaming only Skullgirls during my special online casual where we are restricted to playing these characters you are seeing on my splash art, including Feng, Minette, Venus and Christmas, who are not yet playable, but they deserved to be on there because they have been added to the palette editor two weeks ago and all four of them are eligible for their BBTAG palettes to be legal. For this, here is my separate channel's offline screen that will also be updated when more characters get added to the palette editor and existing characters' images get updated in parallel with my Discord server's banner art.

I originally stated that I would go full blast also on Steam, which my online casual will take place on once Marie is released. My Discord server is buttoned up and ready to be shared, but unfortunately, there has been a change of plans. After looking at the specs on my laptop I'm using, I learned that they are not good enough for my Steam games to run smoothly. Because of this, I will no longer think that I'm gonna go full blast also on Steam once Marie is fully released and I will be postponing planning my own online casual until I get a high-end laptop with better specs and a good amount of hertz.

Remember what 1smash18 said that he needed a new high-end computer with better specs so that his Steam games can run smoothly? Well, I'm doing the same thing, by getting a new high-end laptop with better specs so that my Steam games can run smoothly.

By the way, there is a delicious surprise Beowulf, Parasoul, Annie, Umbrella, Cerebella and Feng in their Kanji, Mitsuru, Izayoi, Platinum, Mika and Chie palettes on the left side are holding on the play...

During BBTAG 2.0:

During BBTAG 3.0:

In both periods, Christmas in Yuzuriha's colors is located after Double in Merkava's colors and before Squigly in Hilda's colors and the Under Night In-Birth row is now left with one empty space now located in the middle, which will be for Aeon's Vatista palette. Now, seven characters are eligible for their UNI palettes.

During BBTAG 2.0:

During BBTAG 3.0:

If Christmas doesn't get her Yuzuriha palette, it will stay on my palette pack on both periods. Same with Minette, Feng and Venus' Minette Chie and Linne palettes.

On my fanmade character select screen, the characters' portraits on the bottom row are rearranged while the ones on the top are also rearranged as Marie is no longer on the top row and middle column after adding Christmas to it on the upper right hand corner. This placement lasts until the 20th character is on there.

As I added Minette, Feng, Venus and Christmas to my projects, I am nearing the 20th character eligible for their BBTAG palette on this one and my other projects that are becoming even more of a masterpiece. But please be aware that their portraits and the placement of them on this graphic above are not final and will change. But one interesting thing will stay, though.

If you look at the icon on Minette's apron colored red during the process of making her a Celica palette, you'll notice that it is now has colors to match the pantones of her apron, arms and skirt.

What makes it crazy is that one of the members of the Last Hope became eligible for their BBTAG palette and that is Christmas and making a Yuzuriha palette out of her is the cherry on top. I feel like that if she becomes playable, she might play like her. A blade in her hand; no mistaking it.

A little announcement, Marie's Alpha has dropped last week and came with full voice acting, her stage and all of her moves since she is developed further after she gets released on Mobile first, like with Annie. Except that Marie launched with few sketchy frames and a partial set of palettes during her Alpha. If any of you own the Season 1 Pass on Steam, you'll gain access to Marie's Alpha and she will be available separately on her Early Access Beta phase, which will begin when all of her frames are completed.

Originally, Marie was supposed to release on December. Development on Marie is continuing along, but apparently, due to circumstances, she is no longer being slated to release in December. All of Marie's sketchy frames take a while for them to be completed and her art won't be finalized before then, so it's most likely that Marie is slated to release in early 2024, along with Nidra, the third character in the Them's Fightin' Herds Season 1 Pass, to also be slated to release in early 2024. Unless if they get a lot more developers to join the team, of course.

But Marie is not the only thing coming because the general balance pass is also in the works to make the whole cast the best it can be.

The only thing about this is that since 2nd Encore and the Season 1 Pass are available on all three console versions, Marie and all of her bells and whistles, like her Story Mode and a finalized set of balance changes for the rest of the cast will be submitted to all three console platforms.

It has been a long road and a wild ride for Skullgirls, man. It started out with eight characters in the original roster. Then six more characters expanded the roster to 14 during the Indiegogo period, which established a launch roster for 2nd Encore. And now, here we are. Four more characters expanded the roster to 18 during the Season 1 Pass period and Marie is in development. And once she is fully released on all four platforms, the Season 1 Pass period is over and Justice Sword, Active Angel, Walpurgisnacht and Purity & Strictly will be played to the "true" max on all four platforms. After that, it's off to waiting for an update that gives the new characters' Story Mode their full voice over and hoping for a Season 2 Pass and crossplay. 

I am also waiting for the next update for Skullgirls Mobile, which makes Marie completely available to be acquirable from all Standard Relics I've been hording until then and get her Prize Fight available. It's interesting that Marie is the final boss and was freed from all influence after destroying the Skull Heart without hitting her to become a playable fighter. But we can still fight her boss version on Arcade Mode and certain challenges, but not on her Story Mode because like Xblaze and others, it will be a visual novel to entail her past life and how she gained control of the Skull Heart.

I will never forget the fact that all four Season 1 Pass characters have all been eligible for their BBTAG palettes, consisting of three BlazBlue palettes and one Under Night In-Birth palette. It is clean as crap for these characters to be eligible for my special online casual I postponed planning until I get a gaming laptop with a good amount of hertz.

In conclusion, with Minette, Feng, Venus and Christmas added to my projects as they are eligible for their BBTAG palettes of Celica, Feng, Linne and Yuzuriha above, I am nearing the 20th character eligible for their BBTAG palette. This should (hopefully) be the last update before I have the 20th BBTAG palette. I hope it is either for a male character, like Taliesin's Tohru Adachi palette, Yu Wan's Jubei palette or Hubrecht's Azrael palette or for Aeon's Vatista palette to fill out the UNI row.

Joe's Monologues - 10/17/23

We are halfway through October and Halloween is around the corner, so get ready for some bone chilling and spooky moments looming as I start the next Joe's Monologues, which the series will be named going forward. But don't worry. What do I have to monologue on will not be scary, I promise.

First off, regarding my Wrapper: Offline career. I am starting my career as a GoAnimator soon because I was able to get the VoiceForge and Ivona voices working again thanks to the video that explains how do I get them working again. I shared my roadmap of new videos on YouTube divided into three sections below.

Planned Videos in Development - Videos that are slated to be uploaded soon.

Planned Videos on Reserve - Videos that are put on pause until further notice.

Planned Videos in Concept - Videos that are on the verge of being explored, but likely won't happen until confirmation.

It was just the rough first pass and I'll be posting my updated roadmap soon.

Of course, my career might hit some roadblocks, but not frequently. I am looking forward to start my GoAnimate career fresh. Now, in case if you guys are wondering, I won't be uploading new Wrapper: Offline videos on my main channel, which is now reset to start fresh. I'll be uploading new videos on my separate new channel because I want to start fresh. A link to it will be posted soon.

I am on the source of developing my Wrapper: Offline avatar and studio and I am down to the final stage of development as I was able to get the VoiceForge and Ivona TTS voices working again. I am also still on the source of creating a handful of characters that are based on my interests in my life. When I say based on my interests in my life, I mean I make a handful of characters from video games, TV shows, movies. YouTube channels I'm following and other works.

Look, what I'm trying to say is the GoAnimate community is so vast and connected. I'm sure TTS voices will be working. Especially when making your own copyright and safety message screens. I like those things since my inception of playing 6th generation era games. Even the ones in games by THQ, the American toy company turned video game company that had to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy after series of stock drops, financial struggles and debt.

I would like to give a shoutout to one of my favorite GoAnimators named MumaX992. He became the source of inspiring me of making characters from TV shows, movies, video games and other works and videos that are on my list of ideas. And now, he's back because Wrapper: Offline can restore the GoAnimate community. I look forward to watching his new videos. But he confirmed that he will be uploading new videos on a new separate channel because it's to start fresh.

And any of you fans enjoyed Sonic Frontiers' Final Horizon update? The update is amazing. All of Sonic's friends each not only have a BGM, but also their own skill tree and skill points. The only thing about this is that if you're playing as Sonic, the BGM for Ouranos Island plays while he has access to using keys to open portals, but not when you're playing as Amy, Knuckles and Tails because they each have their own BGM while they don't have access to using keys to open portals and this is something that also makes Sonic Frontiers truly Spyro: Year of the Dragon, and they are all catchy. I was even having trouble clearing Snake's Trial, until I thought of a way to beat it. I Cycloop around the enemy, and press square two times and circle before the shield drops. The Titan Rush trial wasn't frustrating because if I Quick Cycloop them, their defense is significantly decreased and they are on the ropes during that state.

Honestly, I feel calm when listening to Amy's theme because I can see how retiring to Los Angeles has its perks since I heard the layout of GTA V's Los Santos, Sonic Unleashed's Spagonia and Skullgirls' New Meridian drew inspiration there, considering the Boardwalk and the Wonder Wharf drew inspiration from the one in the Santa Monica Pier, knowing Active Angel became a perfect fit.

Now I'm one progress away from beating the new story, which is beating The End. However, there's a cable the fake moon bears and it quickly regenerates The End's HP. I need to figure a way to sever that cable...

I know Toys for Bob is working on Crash Team Rumble, but I would like a new story for Spyro: Year of the Dragon where I can freely switch between Spyro and his four friends that each come with their own BGM in their perspective.

Now, I want to tell you about the drama I have experienced over on YouTube. This is regarding cyberbullying. If you don't know what is cyberbullying, it is harassing users online, by recording them and posting on YouTube. I want to make videos out of pedophiles because they deserved it for traumatizing and kidnapping children, but I was told that it is considered cyberbullying as reporting them to the authorities is legit. How is making videos out of pedophiles is cyberbullying? Making parodies about them is the way to get them terminated.

I'm gonna tell you how pedophiles are extremely dangerous. They are adults who conduct sex towards childiren, like stripping them. This is the worst criminal offense and doing so will cause fans to hate you forever because once exposed as a pedophile, game over. They don't deserve forgiveness, a second chance or rehabilitation for kidnapping and traumatizing children. They deserve bad karma, consisting of getting their accounts terminated, jail time and mistreatment. Making videos out of them is considered bad karma, not cyberbullying. And I don't know if you know this, but it's intense.

But hey, you know what's intense? The way Mightykeef, my favorite YouTuber makes his skits. Even the one about how Mortal Kombat 1 plays on the Switch. I was intrigued at the graphics on the Switch version. It made it look like a PS2 game. No wonder there isn't that much players of the FGC plays Mortal Kombat 1 on the Switch. Fortunately, they pushed out a patch that improves performance on the Switch version, as well as implementing access to Season 1 of Invasions.

The one about Mortal Kombat 1 isn't the only thing that is intense. The Naraka: Bladepoint skit is up. He shown those guys that he is not trash. At the beginning, mentioning Naraka sounds like a villain from Inuyasha. I know it sounds far-fetched, but it's a melee weapon-centric battle royale. The skit about it is intense that I'm hearing weird voices over the game screen. It's kind of a technicality, yes.

You know what I like to see uploaded on Mightykeef's channel? About how he feels playing Honkai: Star Rail for the first time. There is a skit about buying characters on Genshin Impact with real money, so I want to see a Honkai: Star Rail skit get uploaded in response to its release on PS5, as well as its battle system reminding me of Xenosaga. Remember that game?

Thanks for listening and that's all I have to say. I hope you guys have a wonderful day. And remember, with Halloween fast approaching, you're in for a spooky blockbuster.

SG X BBTAG Update #5 + Special Surprise

Welcome to the 5th standalone update for Skullgirls X BBTAG and this one proves that I'm not done with making BBTAG palettes out of Skullgirls characters because they added more sprites to the palette editor under the custom section. And I have a special surprise that you will see later on.

Before we dive right in, on the previous update, my projects have become a masterpiece now that I have a final picture of Marie in Orie's colors and I have a new collage that has more empty slots and that's why the previous one is not the final one and there will be more of them you are about to see, along with a special surprise. Now, on to the update.

You guessed it. Minette, Feng and Venus have been recently added to the palette editor under the custom section and I made Celica, Chie and Linne palettes out of these characters above as a cherry on top. They became eligible for them because Crystal Forest, Like the Dragon and Night Walker are the themes that fit perfectly well with them.

You are wondering why Marie is no longer in the middle. After some thought, I learned about the placement that contains Marie in the middle of this collage. It didn't meet up with my standards and putting her in the middle didn't turn out well despite being the Skullgirl. It's because putting her in the middle affected the size of the top and bottom characters in the middle. As a result, I put her after Black Dahlia in Nine's colors and it is the best bet. But that's not all. This collage is starting to become a masterpiece even more after putting Minette, Feng and Venus on there.

BBTAG 2.0:

BBTAG 3.0:

The graphic during the BBTAG 3.0 period is coming along nicely as the BlazBlue and Persona 4 Arena rows have been filled out. On both periods, Minette in Celica A. Mercury's colors is located after Annie in Izayoi's colors and before Black Dahlia in Nine the Phantom's colors, Feng in Chie Satonaka's colors is located before Beowulf in Kanji Tatsumi's colors and Venus in Linne's colors is located before Marie in Orie's colors to match the order of character introduction on each universe.

BBTAG 2.0:

BBTAG 3.0:

Still the same placement for the three additional characters. If their Celica, Chie and Linne palettes don't make it to 2nd Encore, they will stay on my palette pack.

I told you that the characters on this Discord server's banner art must be smaller and positioned to fit more characters, so I made them a bit smaller and positioned them to make room for Minette, Feng and Venus. They deserve to be up there because they are assigned to BBTAG character themes that fit perfectly well with their personality to be eligible for their BBTAG palette and a ticket to my special online casual. On the left side, Feng is spotted while on the right side, Minette and Venus are spotted. Now this is starting to become even more of a masterpiece.

And finally, the portraits on my fanmade character select screen were made a bit smaller to fit Feng, Minette and Venus' portraits located on the bottom row. This matches the placement in the character select screen in 2nd Encore that will take place once Marie hits Alpha and beyond, hoping we get word about it soon now that she is released on Mobile. The random selection has a ? mark and it's because importing own fonts on Canva no longer requires Pro.

All of my projects are becoming a masterpiece even more after putting Feng, Minette and Venus on them. But please be aware that their images are previews to show how fly they are in their Minette, Chie and Linne palettes and they will be replaced with final ones once they are released on Mobile. If they make it to the Season 2 Pass, I'll be hyped for that because I need at least one character eligible for their BBTAG palette in it. This goes to show that I am not done with my endeavor yet. It must go on until the end.

Alright, everyone, are you ready for a big surprise? Feast your eyes on this!

Surprise! Christmas, one of the members of the Last Hope, have also been added to the palette editor under the custom section. I made her a Yuzuriha palette as a cherry on top because if she becomes playable, I feel like that she might fight like her considering that she is spotted in the River King Casino. If anyone asks if I'm gonna put Christmas in Yuzuriha's colors on my projects and what BBTAG character theme she will be assigned to, I will do that and you'll find out soon. This is just part one of the Skullgirls X BBTAG update series.

Doing so is the fact that I love making BBTAG palettes out of Skullgirls characters to promote the launch party and I am so glad that controversial censorship update didn't stop me from doing so. So yeah, it's possible for me to actually make Celica, Chie, Linne and Yuzuriha palettes out of all four characters that have been added to the palette editor. I can see why palettes depicting characters from other universes is the best bet. I would like to see a male character get added to the palette editor.