Hey Newgrounds it's been a while. A lot has happened since I left, both in my life and the outside world, crazy times we are living in. I wanted to fill you guys up in what has been going on. Ever since I made "Frog to the Moon" everything really started moving forward. I remember I received some support from Tom Fulp back then, and oh boy that alone was the catalyst of everything that happened after.

I remember I was on my last pennies and was considering just giving up on art because of how overwhelming it was to me. I didn't know exactly how to monetize it so I thought it was over. I had looked up some lists on HTML5 game portals thinking I could make some money licensing some HTML5 games, but progress was slower then it was sustainable so at that point I thought I just wasn't gonna make it. Then out of nowhere, an old college friend of mine introduced me to Fiverr. I had no idea such a site existed, he offered me a gig, made me make an account and I started freelancing there.

Fast forward some time I knew a good friend and client with a proposal, making a full length game, something pretty ambitious for an unexperienced dev as myself. I accepted and that became my life for the next 4 years. The game evolved a lot during development. It started out as Pixel Planet, which had 4 mini games, one of them was "Mole Mayhem" which we started expanding until it became it's own thing and became Moleward. I guess it expanded a little too much and it became something so big that it crushed me. This is the first time I'm saying this publicly but Moleward's development has officially been in a halt for a while.

It was pretty soul crushing not being able to complete my duty, I didn't realize I was burnt out pretty badly. Since we started this project my client always talked about the possibility of this not working out and that it's okay if it didn't and that there will be no hard feelings for it. I didn't want to show it at the moment but I did feel like absolute trash for it. I wanted the both of us to harvest the fruits of our labor but the reality was that it wasn't going to happen at the time.

So after that I took some time off because I wasn't really sure what I even wanted to do in life at that point. I just couldn't stand being in my computer or doing any kind of art or game dev so I thought I was really done with art this time. AI had already risen and all art spaces and jobs on the internet were changing so at first I just went on and started doing small odd jobs unrelated to art and just went with the flow. 

As as time passed I slowly was getting back again into art and something crazy happened. After being away for so much I started improving. I noticed I could make better stuff much faster then before. I don't know exactly what it is but time and time again I always come back to this path. So here I am giving it another go but now with more challenges then ever. Some time before I stopped development I had turned on Fiverr once again just to see if I could get any orders, well guess being away for so long penalized me hard because I haven't got anything for months. So I'm gonna try expanding my out off Fiverr commission operations. I use to get one or another every now and then before I started Moleward but stuff has really dried out. Guess a big part of this has to do I hardly post anything so only I'm to blame. AI is an easy scape goat but that's not reality, there is a huge human art economy going on that just happens to be hidden behind the algorithms and I just need to connect with it.

So through out the years I've collected a lot of art I never posted, I've started posting some on my Twitter and want to do the same on the other sites I'm on, like here! I also have a lot of Moleward stuff I've never showed so I can eventually start posting that as well. At the same time I want to soft launch commissions for anyone interested. I already have some current stuff but I want to make some more so expect a comm sheet soon!

But in the mean time if anyone is interested or you can order on Fiverr at: https://www.fiverr.com/henrysanchezng

I also offer Construct 2 services. I've made a lot of complex systems and mechanics so feel free to ask if you are interested.

I'm looking forward to posting more art and working with you guys. Feel free to contact me by DM, Twitter or at my email: HenrySanchezDev@gmail.com