Please don't feel bad about that! Recconecting with your personal DELTARUNE sounds like amazing news! And please, take care of yourself first, of your comfort, your stability, just yourself. Your work and mindset is pretty inspiring and well, we'll wait. I know I will, you are a really good creator!
2 months ago
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didnt toby fox himself say that he hopes someone is inspired by undertale/deltarune and make their own game/passion project? <3 this is exactly whats supposed to happen! art inspires art! please take care of yourself and follow your dreams!
2 months ago
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I'm glad to hear you've rediscovered this passion for an old project like that, it's like backtracking in a Metroidvania and finding a new path opened up
2 months ago
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I feel a very similar way, a few years ago an idea for a game kinda just spawned in my head, and that's what got me into gamedev, and pretty much everything else i've made and that i'm making is related to it to some extent. Although i haven't really worked on it for quite a while now, partly because of other projects and partly because of me doubting that it can make it good enough. But reading this actually did give me some confidence back, so i gotta thank you for that. I wish you the best, and take care.
2 months ago
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one of the main things that makes your work so enjoyable to watch is your own art, narration, framing, editing and pacing style, so I’m more than happy to hear that you’re pursuing more personal creative endeavors and bringing your own passion project to life, especially if it’s something you really care about. Whatever you make, I’m sure it will be well worth it in the end :)
2 months ago
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Always prioritize yourself over any project! If you’re not okay, then the projects and others can wait until you’re in a good headspace
2 months ago
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Honestly, I just discovered you this year, but your projects are already the kind I'm excited and glad to wait months or years to experience. Because of your unique vision, mainly. Remember the classic "progress isn't linear" and just let it rip.
2 months ago
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hi molly!! please don’t feel bad! the beauty of your videos is in the amount of thought and time that you have put into them. it is important to take time for yourself and go at your own pace. you have a gift with words and with your perspective on things, one that is incredibly valuable and deserves to be nurtured and shown patience. you yourself deserve to be nurtured and shown patience. the world is a really scary place right now so it is vital to be gentle with yourself. whether 11 hours or 11 years, we will all be excited to hear what you have to say next!! and i bet your dream project is going to be incredible. you are clearly a very thoughtful and thorough individual and i can only eagerly anticipate whatever you have in store. truly looking forward to anything from you! i am working my way through the device theory part 3 video and i am just so amazed by your dedication and knowledge. these things are not meant to be rushed! neither is taking care of yourself!! all the best 🩷🩵
1 month ago
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It's okay, we waited a gazillion years for chapters 3-4 , we can wait longer for your peakery
1 month ago
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Wishing you the best of luck on your personal project! Let's all make the cool stuff we wanna do this year
2 months ago
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good to see you're taking care of yourself. looking forward to whatever projects the future has in store for you, deltarune or not. good luck :)
2 months ago
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things have been rough for me as well. please try to stay safe, whatever happens
2 months ago
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Don't worry about "taking too long" and "being too offline". Creating art tells you, the easy way or the hard way, that such things aren't real. Let's just say that Carl Sagan was right about making things from scratch. Take care of yourself when you need to, and create when you need to. Both are good investments. I'm sure that someday you'll give us this [PROJECT] in full and we'll all get to talking about it together and enjoying it together. I know for a fact that I'm interested in this [PROJECT] of yours. If you can make TDT, what other crazy amazing things can you make? Remember: Time doesn't stop. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't stop. P.S. I'm still working on my fanfic! It's my first real project, and I'm taking the necessary measures to see it through! We are all in this (purely artistic *wink wink nudge nudge*) struggle together!
2 months ago
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Valid as hell. Making art is hard when so much is happening in the world. Take ur time
2 months ago
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i can really relate to this. Also, take your time Molly! the next chapter doesnt come out until next year! love the Aesthetic of the stuff you make. I look forward to seeing your non-delta rune projects, I'm certain theyre gonne be VERY, VERY INTERESTING
2 months ago
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as someone who has enjoyed your content and was trying to take a long break from YouTube content, I'm so glad I stumbled upon your post. life has been very difficult for me lately. for a long time I've had so many story concepts that were really fun but didn't go anywhere. but recently I've been refining it in my mind as a real story with real characters and a real identity. it's something that I'm so passionate about. and I wish I could make it into a real game. it's a story that I'm sure would resonate with a lot of people on a deep level. but I just don't have the means to make it real. I'm not a game dev, or an artist, or a composer. I'm simply just a storyteller. what you said in this post really resonated with me. I'm a storyteller too. I want to create my own DELTARUNE. but I just don't feel like it could happen. it's too ambitious. and the thought of that makes me depressed. it started making me doubt my own worth. it's making me feel like if I don't fully realize these ideas, then I didn't live up to my potential. and that thought terrifies me. the thought of dreams that I wasn't able to reach. aside from all that, I hope it goes well for you Molly. reach your dreams. accomplish the things you truly want to do as a storyteller. writing a passionate story is like ripping your heart out for all the world to see. and who knows. maybe my imaginary game will become real one day. I sure hope your project becomes real Molly. every passionate writer deserves to be heard. take care.
2 months ago
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I honestly love how inspiring and unifying DELTARUNE is, despite not being a complete work of art it has still inspired others to create works of art in its and their own image. It has the same impact Undertale had but in (very) slow motion, coagulating like a snowball rolling down a mountain into a once in a lifetime freak of nature. If it where not for Device Theory I honestly wouldn’t have seen DELATRUNE nor Undertale as deep and well thought out as they truly are. Honestly through your videos you've helped me (and many others) gain a new perspective with almost all the art i see and interact with, helped me enjoy it so much more. And that's a gift where a simple "Thanks" probably isn’t enough for, regardless due to the limitations of the internet and my own artistic abilities a thanks is all i can give you for now. Best of luck for your DELTARUNE.
1 month ago
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We believe in you! Excited to hear more about your passion project one day 🎶
2 months ago
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Don’t feel bad, your videos are great and I’m willing to wait for whatever content you put out
2 months ago
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mollystars
hiya. long read ahead (not all bad news, dw)
it's been a bit since i last updated, and i want to just get you up to speed on where i've been at lately.
i wanna apologize for not much progress coming as of late for the next video; since getting a decent outline of everything done, i wanted to get straight to writing/recording, but i'll just keep it a buck with you: july up to now has been particularly rough on me and thrown me completely off course of my original plan for this time of year. it's not all bad! but it's not at all what i was expecting.
this year has unsurprisingly been a very hectic and unpredictable one, and it's been hard to find stability throughout, as i'm sure is the case for A Lot of people; there's been a prevailing feeling of not quite knowing how to keep myself sane and focused amidst the uh, [points vaguely in the direction of Everything happening lately]. what got me this time particularly was a mix of burnout, an excess of pretty difficult news globally, and a lot of personal life stuff flaring up that i needed to tend to, and that led to me realizing that i kind of needed to take a step back and check in on myself.
this has led me to a...surprising turn. i don't actually feel Too bad about not much progress having been made on the next video, because in lieu of that, i've found myself reconnecting with a project that more or less has defined my trajectory these past few years; you could call it my personal dream project, my own "DELTARUNE", the thing that keeps me up at night just thinking about it, that all of this feels like it's building up to. i realized that in order to really feel confident about everything else going forward, i needed to actually get back to that project again and bring it up to speed with where i am now in my skills and experience. i've been wanting to really love what i am thinking about it again, and to actually believe in it. i know there's something good in there. so, this past month has consisted of A LOT of re-sorting and brainstorming about the finer details and figuring out how to bring it to a point i'm actually happy with.
of course, there's things i'm not gonna be able to fill the gaps on until i like...am actually making the thing. which, well- that won't be for a long while, still. the easy way to put it is: there's a bit of this project in everything i've been doing. and i do mean Everything. it's the roots of what i'm making, and i want to make sure those are maintained, or else everything else i do, in my eyes, may suffer for it.
make no mistake, **i am still going to make the next video.** i'm REALLY excited for what it's going to look like, and i want it to be not as long as a TDT3, but certainly beating its production quality. but in order to do that, i want to just finally get some of the personal shit out of my system first rather than follow a certain order of things to do; i've been keeping a lot of this in my head for so long that it's just grown nearly impossible to ignore it, and honestly? with everything happening recently that i'm seeing, it also feels too relevant to not at least try to use this project as an outlet. this year has been a huge reminder for me that there is no truly right time, there is no "someone else", and you never know how much time you have and how much you can fit in it: so the very least i can do to be kind to myself is to not ignore the deepest parts of me creatively that want to speak out a bit.
i've been very secretive about the non-youtube aspects of what i do since starting all this, and while i'm still gonna leave gaps about this work i'm doing (i STRONGLY do not want people to have certain false pretenses of what my work will look like), i think at least making people aware that it exists and that it's what i'm slowly gearing up towards is the best move. not in such a way that it abandons the youtube side (in fact, i think they go hand-in-hand in some regard), but enough that i make my intentions clear in the long-term. i love brainrotting about my interests, and i will continue to when there's something that feels worth doing a quirky little investigation on. but even more so, i have characters and stories and Feelings that i want people to know, and to cherish. i'm pretty sure i'm a storyteller above all else, and it'd be just rude to not show you what i've been sleepless about for the past several years, and will Continue to be for quite a while. it's all still kind of a haze. but i just want people to know it exists, if i have to start *somewhere.*
i wasn't sure at first if i would even gain an audience that likes me for me at all, but now that i have a sense that's what my audience is indeed here for, i don't know what the point in "hiding" it so much...is, anymore. at least, to the point of not even being aware that that's a part of what i do.
if this goes well...then hopefully, i can communicate that Efficiently in the next video alongside what people are expecting out of it. i'll be more offline while i'm essentially working from the inside out creatively to reinforce things, working my way back to focusing on youtube stuff. in fact, i already am feeling the motivation to pivot to some other stuff just because i already am feeling VERY good about what i have for this project of mine as of late. there's still work to do, but i get the feeling that once i'm past the initial bumps, it's just gonna come to me naturally.
just remember: nearly everything i make, or have made, is vent art.
thank you as always for taking the time to read this, and i'll be seeing y'all soon <3 take care of yourselves, especially now. when i have more to show, i want it to be Really worth it.
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