New Year's Day(e) Progress 4/28/23


Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to pop in and let you all know what's been happening the past few weeks. 

In general, NYD is coming along really well, but I still have a ways to go. I am starting the renders of what will be the final scene of chapter 1. There is a TON of stuff that happens in this chapter! You will meet lots of folks, travel around to different places in this ("unEVErse"? "Jonesyverse"?) world and get a feel for what life might be like there. 

New Year's Day(e) is really just a continuation of "Christmas Eve" and will pick up exactly where CE leaves off and any loose ends will be tied up in the following installments. (My brain just won't let me call a story "Christmas Eve" when it takes place after Christmas. )

There's a lot to look forward to. Like, what's going on in this image?


Whatever it is, it looks fun!

Anyway, back to work! I hope to have things done by the end of May, but we'll see what happens!

As always, thanks for your support and all the love that I've received so far for Christmas Eve. I really appreciate it!

- Jonesy

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Please don`t cancel Christmas Eve ! It is amazing  19aloha60

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There's no reason to worry about that. New Year's Day(e) is a continuation of the Christmas Eve story. It will pick up right where Christmas Eve left off. The main difference will be that New Year's Day(e) will focus on Dayton more than Eve. That being said, Eve will still be in this story quite a bit, as well as Kaylee and Becky. You will also meet some new characters and see how they influence the story. 

Thanks for your commitment to Christmas Eve, though. It was a lot of fun to create, but the fun has just begun!

~ Jonesy

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You can always call it CE Sage: New Year's Day(e)

I don't mind it having a new game but if you want continuity that might help. CE was amazing. CAn't wait for NYE

Hey, thanks for the positive feedback! You know, I thought about doing the same thing, kind of like "Star Wars: A New Hope", "The Empire Strikes Back", etc., but for whatever reason decided against it. Maybe I'll rename it in the future and make it a whole series with different "seasons" or "volumes". 
Anyway, thanks again. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Chapter 1 of NYD is almost done!

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Hmmm...I've just realized my previous comment typifies what a fanboy usually sounds like to me. I can also therefore see the need for me to modify my own attitude and be more empathetic towards and respectful of these intensely over-enthusiastic and effusive devotees, as I feel I have spontaneously demonstrated myself to be here.

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No worries! People like what they like. I have been the fanboy on many occasions as well. Thanks again for all of your enthusiasm, support, and positive feedback. It really does help to recharge my determination to keep creating. Yours and the other positive messages I have received are always deeply appreciated. Sorry for not responding sooner, but I've been busy working on NYD all weekend! 

Thanks again!

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Thanks for keeping us informed of developments. It all sounds intriguing and, of course, exciting. It's great to see that you're not allowing yourself to be pressured by a specific deadline. You have more than enough pressure upon you maintaining the stellar quality of content we have now, from experience, rightfully come to expect from you.

I am so pleased and impressed to find your characters continue to be so unwaveringly delightful and enchanting and thankfully not in the least bit "cheesy", overly precocious or, indeed, contrived. It is a very narrow line to tread here, but your writing, characterization and illustration is simply impeccable and, believe me, I am usually far from drawn to...no, attracted...to this type of character or scenario, but my-oh-my these girls and their story are something else!

So I truly do appreciate being treated to the overwhelming warmth and wonder every one of your girls brings to my heart through their fearless curiosity, irreverent mischievousness, brazen self-confidence and most critical of all, of course, your imagination and creative skills, both narrative and visual. 

I feel privileged to be a part of this and I shall support as much as I am able during hard times in return for all that you do both for me, us and, of course, yourself. All that you create is a monumental testament to you and the artistry of you and all creators gifted enough to portray such unerringly accurate human observation in so positive and sensitive a way for we who can only sit in awe as your stories unfold before our disbelieving eyes and hearts.  

Many who have not (I sincerely hope yet) savoured the fruits of your labour will think I exaggerate, but for me that is hand-on-heart, truly not the case. I've absolutely no reason to sing praises that I've neither felt nor enjoyed so deeply before. I just believe in sincerity and voicing admiration where I believe admiration needs to be shared which is why I am here...