As per usual, this is a crosspost from my website, Hydromecha.website.

I finished a good number of things this past October and made some decent progress on some other things. Outside of the projects I'll be talking about below, I also finished The Day of the Triffids (the book), Black Mesa (I played HL1/2 a few years ago), and also did all of the Scream Fortress contracts with some friends.

Anyways, let's get into things:

The Phage Walker

The giant scratchbuild I posted last month is done! I ended up using this as a submission to the 2023 Newgrounds Halloween Spooktacular.

Website Monitor

I recently did a pretty large overhaul to my website using this new monitor model. I definitely like how this looks over the older 3DCG model. See a before/after comparison below:

Before:

After:

Magma Wyrm WIP

This is the next scratchbuild I'm working on. It's a monster heavily inspired by bobbit worms. I've been recording my progress for making this model, and plan to turn that into a video at some point. Stay tuned for more news on that.

Comic Reader Template

If you've ever wanted to use the comic reader I have on my website on your own page, you now can! I've uploaded a template of how I have things set up to Archive.org in a neat little .zip file. All the files in there are Public Domain so you can do whatever you want with them. Check it out by clicking here or by clicking on Comics (on Hydromecha.website) and scrolling down to Comic Resources.

ANTARCTICA MUST FALL

That's the name of the Doom mod I made those monster models for (I still need to make at least one more). It's still very much early in development, but I figure I might as well explain what it is. It'll be a GZDoom mod that takes place largely in Antarctica. This'll be an interesting learning experience as I've only really messed around with limit-removing mapping for the DBP and DBKs I've contributed to. A friend helped me get started, but from here on out it's a solo project. I'll post more news on this as I make significant progress.

Hazardous Materials - Comic Script Progress

I made some decent progress on the chapter 2 script this past month. I've got a good chunk of the story beats plotted out, but I still need to finish that and then go through and actually write all the dialog and whatnot.

Closing Thoughts

I definitely want to focus more on getting the Hazmat script this month. Outside of the Magma Wyrm I probably won't be making more scratchbuilds for a bit. I still need to design/print those new parts for my Toxitron custom. I've got a pretty large backlog of Transformers customs I wanna make so I need to start knocking those out. I'd also like to try getting the Snowdemon and Surprise Elemental fully functional for Antarctica.