#yeah I'm taking a break from making nice json files to instead write spaghetti code in an assembly language. what of it

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Oh yeah, guess I should mention what put me on hiatus ahaha — Aside from regular burnout, I was also busy working on a mod for Stardew Valley these past few months!

After playing Stardew Valley for a while, you might've gotten married and wound up having or adopting children with your spouse... in which case, you would've ended up with two kids who never grow past the toddler stage and run about the house aimlessly. Well...

Growing Valley - Child NPCs lets those funky untalkative toddlers that wander your home grow up into fully-fledged NPCs!

More details under the cut! (or you could visit the mod page for even more details ahaha)

This mod comes with six unique kids designed in appearance and personality to resemble six of the vanilla marriage candidates! There's also customizable kids to fill in for remaining situations, whether because you've married a modded spouse, or because your spouse of choice hasn't gotten a unique kid yet.

So far, Alex, Leah, Penny, Sebastian, Elliott, and Emily have gotten unique kids designed after them, but any child can be manually selected through the config to show up in place of the defaults.

Customizable kids!

Questionably dishonest antics!

Young ma'am, that's not edible (or potable)!

Aside from being goofy little buggers who want to drink dye (well only Emily's daughter would try that... right?), they'll also wander around town, chat with you, and accept gifts like any other character. Winter outfits were recently added too, so look forward to seeing them bundle up for the cold!

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On a more personal note, I've been real happy to be able to return to pixel art; it's how I started out as an artist, so getting to flex exercise the skills I've developed since those early days has been a delightful opportunity!

Now I'm sick of doing it though so I need to take a hiatus from this and return from my hiatuses elsewhere ahaha