Hello doods and doodettes! The Aster Dood here with another AsterBlog.

So, I want to sum it up that, while in the beginning of the year things were going pretty awful and even going on a downhill, I now find myself on a grand turning of events, even with recent events of family members passing away and having discord among them before. I will clarify.

I've gotten my first job at a part-time bakery/pastry known in my country for being delicious. It's a simple job in the area of production, so I mainly have to paint some croissants and cut brownies, remove cakes from the molds, that sorta stuff.

Idk how they might pay me in this month that I will be (yeah, it's a one month internship, but maybe if I work well... 6u6), but I have some subsidies and food granted, so no worries about shortage of food in mah belleh haha. :p

I have been drawing more for me than Newgrounds lately, if barely at all, because I felt more like watching stuff, listening to things, not even music I have been listening at all, not much games to please me other than Garry's Mod. I feel like I have become bored and non-based like I were before, like, I used to play Sonic Adventure and cracked Adventure 2 and Crazy Taxi, Project Zomboid, I never even touched MSRR or MGS5, I barely played Scott Pilgrim, basically I have such a huge backlog that I don't play because they don't have a Swedish/Spanish Mauser or a M16 in it like a gun collector fudd lol.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm just growing up and realizing that yes, I can do these things on my own time, but maybe I need to focus on work like I usually do, and hey, maybe one day I can have money to work here more on Newgrounds and ask peeps if they can work on my game. Maybe I'm just growing up in a coming-of-age moment. Maybe I need to relax a bit, hoping that you don't forget me, and that when I come back, I will be going stronger than ever.

Stay c00l, frendos! ;)

-Ricky D.

PS: Here's a cool fake gun sale flyer magazine that I made that doesn't go anywhere on Newgrounds just because I wanted to flex my gun autism. I hope you like it and reminds you of childhood. ^^

PPS: I should also note that I will not participate in this year's Secret Santa due to my job being in the way for current plan. Hope everybody will have a Happy Christmas and have fun doing the drawings in the competition.

3D modeling is fun, especially when it's styled after PS2 lowpoly cartoons :p

Take a peek! 6u6

It's really funny, plus I used 10% of my power to do it, which was easy when using Audacity.

Be sure to give it a listen, yo! :D

Howdy hello, people of Newgrounds! Totally not a guy in help here. .p.

I'm currently looking for help to deluxe my demo game that I published with Dan aka 53xy83457, called "Ricardo Goes to War".

Basically port it, this game, to HaxeFlixel, tweak it, add a story that was planned since the beginning, add voices and sound effects and more pizzazz, some more features and better artstyle, to make a cool ass shooting gallery game about my series!

I currently made a Help Wanted poster on the Collabinator, more information is there to read, so if anyone is interested be sure to join, it will disappear in 7 days (updated: 2 weeks cuz idk if many peeble will see it lol :p). Be quick to catch the opportunity of a lifetime! ;)

I'll be waiting for you, dood. ^-^

-Ricky D.

Fightin' beasts in the streets, hentai cuties in the sheets. All badass on the brink, then get home, kiss, two in the pink and one in the stink. Like how goofster lovers should. :3

(PS: They like it soft, loving and caring. Wholesome and dare I say degenerate oh my >//w//<)

It's been a rough time for me, as you can see by my postings here on Newgrounds, but I just hope I can be alright.

Anyways, happy birthday to the birthday boy! 22 years and - wait, 22... man, I'm old. Bring me some whiskey, man...

Thank you to everybody who has come with me, friends and all alike. :)

Heya people of the interwebz, Ricky D. here.

Sorry for no new drawings or any recent activity lately, I've been real worried and, thought days have been becoming hotter and awakening my will to draw lately, very burnout-y and busy trying to focus on real life issues across my family and myself, including trying to find a way to balance between fun and work.

Lately I've been feeling unmotivated because one of my grandparents has fallen extremely ill with pneumonia at 81 and the doctors are trying their best to cure him. Right now he has lost weight beyond belief, he was a fat old man. He also lacked a kidney and had many problems like hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol. He is with big chance of death, yet we cling to God that he survives to see my brother marry.

I can't imagine such thing to happen, even though I pray that it DOESN'T happen, even in a slim chance. I know he would be really weak, needing to walk again though physiotherapy, but at least it would be a miracle for him to be with me for a couple of years, as a family we are.

He is the reason I started playing games on a computer, and the reason I got introduced to the World Wide Web.

Flash games, Youtube videos and animations, Newgrounds, cheat codes for San Andreas, Windows XP, PowerPoint presentations, shitty shady games I'd download from ads that I'd enjoy as a kid like The Rise of Atlantis, Mario Forever and the like, MS Paint and PC gaming as a whole.

He is a part of my childhood that I cannot never take it off. Him dying would be sending my depression into a downward spiral, making me crying inside since I just can't physically cry, no matter how much I try in the right times. I have ASD thanking for fucking with my whole life for that...

I need time to see what happens and, if it eventually does, a brief period of reflection and time away from posting, just doodling in my notebook.

'till then. I'll see you soon. Peace out, bros and brodettes.

PS: Slowly I am doing something, but it hurts so much right now to continue... Should I stop it for a while?

-Ricky D.

So uh, finally done with the game! Dan is a cool guy, I really enjoyed working with him. Hope to one day finish off the rest of the game with either him or someone else or, hell, even myself before even having a team. Who knows. 9u9

I need a placeholder for a blogpost so have some images I have on the "My Things" folder on my hard drive for funzies. :p

Some are screenshots, others are broused way back when i was on 4chan or browsing Twitter, hence the edginess.

Have a good one, doods n' doodettes! :)

Hello everyone of the interwebs!!

This is basically copy paste of the Collabinator, but since it didn't gain any traction, I'm posting it here for anyone and everyone to know. Hope everyone doesn't mind. :p

Looking for musicians, sound designers for bootons soundy and VAs for characters, yo!

I'm TheAsterDood, a small-time artist and animator known for such hits such as "The Strange Dream" and "The bros in the room at 4AM", who recently did some assets with @53xy83457 for a game, my first game to be exact, and everything is looking swell as of right now! The artstyle is updated, there's some cool swaggy new animations, cutscenes, big promises, and all made in the venerable Adobe Flash! It's called "Ricardo Goes to War!"

We are currently looking for some musicians, sound designers and voice actors to do some music for the stages, misc sounds like the press of buttons or being close to death, background sounds, and of course, voices for the characters Maxson, a black, strong and determined sergeant of the Royal Aster Resistance Armed Forces, Daryl B. Trouble, a Mexican-Luso-American who has a knack for guns and is Ricardo's best friend, and finally, Ryleigh Meyers, his girlfriend who during the events of my series AsterReigN (under development right now) fights alongside Ricardo and Daryl in missions across the world to defeat Odracir the Dark.

Here are some beta footage of the game:

So with that, be sure to PM me later or say in here first if you wish to apply for it in order to receive more info on the music of the stages, voice aspects of the characters, sound effects, etc.

You must be 18, prefererably 21 or over for the available positions, be it VA, music or sound design. Reason being that the game contains profane language reminescent of edgy 90s games and will have one little sexual nudge towards the end of it. No minors are welcome for this project.

Will be waiting for you patiently! ^u^

Yours truly,

Ricky D.

A wild @KawaiSprite has appeared!

What will YOU do?