Tulpas, Tunes and Video Games: Some Casual Contemplation

Ah, here we go, folks. By the time you're reading this, the new year will have begun! For us, 2025 has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, we've grown a bit more as a person (or people?) and found new ways to b our best selves. Generally the year went well for us on a personal level, but on the other hand of course, just a couple of months ago, Michael's father passed away. So it's been.... an experience. In terms of our music, in 2025 we reminded ourselves that yes, we are in fact just doing this as a hobby, and trying to release a song every month does nothing but stress us out unnecessarily. It doesn't really help your listener numbers, it actually stifled our creativity and at times, it even turned making music into a chore. So earlier this year, we dropped that schedule and instead started to just work on tunes as and when we're feeling inspired. Been going pretty decently, too! Our listener numbers may still be tiny, but we're thoroughly enjoyi...

 Gooooooood morning! Or afternoon, or evening. Michael here, and it's that time again. That time where we go writing about stuff because a fortnight's passed since we last did so! So let's get into some of that, one last time this year! Active projects! Good news! Our next musical project is now getting properly underway. We struggled a bit to find a proper rhythm for it. Literally, we were floundering with our choice of percussion, but Amalia's had a breakthrough the other day and the tune is now properly on track. It has a vibe, now. A groove, if you will!😎 Besides that, you'll have seen Chapter 2 of Planet Zoo's Casualia Parks series, along with this little experiment of ours: 's really just meant to be a test of the cinematic camera stuff. The series won't turn into a YouTube let's play or anything. Buuuut on some of the bigger milestones, we might just do something like that again. Just more refined. Anyhow, our gameplay for Chapter 3 is alread...

  Welcome back, dear readers, to Casualia Parks! We're feeding the Wombats jelly cake, now! In this second chapter of the series, we've been looking to kind of solidify what we've built so far, get some R&D going, sort out our staff and general management stuff and most importantly, pretty up our small zoo, so things wouldn't look like this: You know, kinda bare, with exposed insulation materials and stuff. So, once the first winter's snow melted away, we while the zoo went about it's business and started making some money for things to come, we went and dove into the myriad management windows that Planet zoo offers. Look at all those options on the left! And each of those comes with a few tabs along the top of the menu, too! All in all, Planet Zoo is quite focused on the animals, their welfare, and education, both for the guests and the player themselves, but let's not forget that this -is- in fact a park management game, too! So managing we went. Firs...