The SANTOR development update
February 9, 2025
February 9, 2025
do you know who santor is? i hope you do. if not, you can check him out in the miscellaneous page. he's a tangentially homestuck related ms paint fan adventure as he engages in weird stuff going all around him. i updated it for almost a month in 2023 but then i just stopped with no prior warning.
the reason SANTOR stopped getting updates was because of a lack in motivation and general no-idea-what-to-do-next. the latter being the main reason. he's one of those things where i just "go with the flow " and don't exactly plan out things in advance, which might have been issue for SANTOR because there are a lot of things i still have to figure out and given that im working on my own, it's a lot more complicated.
the problem really lies in the fact that, i'm not a writer. sure, you see me writing these extended paragraphs and all those fancy words in SANTOR but i wasn't exactly made for this. not being a writer also didn't help with the creativity part, so i didn't just have brainstorms on what to do next like i'm one of those crazy oc lore artists.
now, i recently started writing again for SANTOR. it is complicated trying to pick things up again specially on something i'm not exactly familiar with anymore, but i'd say it's been going pretty well. there are currently 18 drafted pages and a general story document i try to use first before writing. you could argue some of them are filler-ish (like the mike bit) but i'd say filler in mspa or mspfa isn't something you can really avoid.
the really big issue with trying to make new SANTOR panels is the backgrounds, the backgrounds in ACT 2 are all taken in garry's mod which back then was a huge step up from using prerendered backgrounds since now i could freely take pictures from any angles. i've mentioned it once (or twice? i don't know if the rehost entry counts) that my laptop is extremely barren, like, y'know how pcs are referred to as low-end or high-end? think of mine as the DEEP-END, that's how rough we're talking about. i have no idea how i was able to get gmod to run with all the other programs and be able to play in these maps but in current day i just can't do that now.
i Could get someone else to take the backgrounds for me but sometimes i really like to be secretive on things i'm working on, and also you'd never know if i come into issues like the person not taking the REEAALLY specific angle i want for the panel. which could just be a nitpick from my part but for me that's like a really big issue.
i've mentioned in the homepage that a major website update is coming soon, maybe not in the scale of the layout revamp, but significantly major. fortunately for all 3 SANTOR fans out there, the update is related to him. it's basically like the main attraction, along with other relevant stuff. the update all in itself is pretty wicked, in a good way, of course. but right now, it'll be a while until release because i did really make it in advance, i just think it's that good.
all in all, things are coming for SANTOR. things will come for SANTOR, and he himself will make a comeback. obviously if i get a new laptop in time, which i don't exactly know when at this point. thanks for reading!