Good morning everyone! How are we all doing on this mid May Sunday?!?! It has been a minute since I have made a post or anything on here. It's time to get a little real and then get into some updates.
Where to start.... Well.... It has been a very emotional and overwhelming 6 months. In November of last year, Just as I was getting ready to do some big updates here, my father ended up in the hospital randomly with a chest cold. One month later due to many unexpected complications he passed. The holidays, needless to say were very difficult and the months following after. When January hit, the toll on my Mom after my Dad passing was a lot for her. In February, her health started to decline. It was constant trips to the E.R., weeks full of doctors visits and tests. She suffered from an incurable lung cancer that she fought for many years leading up to this point. After my fathers passing, i truly believe she just wanted to be with him. Fast forward to March, 2 days after my Fathers Birthday, my mother fell asleep never to awake again.
I know that's a lot in a little bit to drop on a bunch of totally random people on a website about minecraft, but tbh, Minecraft, and making things for it, losing myself in this world is really one of the only things that have kept my mental health at bay, well enough to get through each day. On top of that, my real, personal life is void of people for the most part. I have my amazing gf and her family, my brother and that's about it. In those moments, being around all of them I have to be strong to some extent, so I usually never have a way or platform just to breath and to think out loud, if that makes any sense. So, I am hoping that by doing this, it will also help to get things out in a way that's healthy, constructive and beneficial to my mental health during all of this. So I do apologize for putting this all out in the open, But I also thank you for allowing me to do so.
Now, With all of that said, and an explanation to my absence, I, for over two years have spent thousands of hours working on my own resource pack. It was something that started off as simply, I want a pack that I don't see anywhere so I guess the only way to get it is to make it. It started off as my own personal need to have my own customized experience in my all time fav game. I want to visually see how this game makes me feel in my head. So I started working on a pack to appease my own expectations. As I started developing the pack, I realized that WOW, there is so much more here than I had ever anticipated but slowly kept plugging away and doing my thing. After the first year and many trials, errors, revamps, and re-dos, I finally had an Idea of what to do, essentially scrapped everything (because it was trash) and decided to start over with a more cohesive Idea in mind. It was then that my GF decided to hop on board and assist me in making the pack that I envisioned in my head. So she decided to learn how to use Blockbench and started designing block models to help take some of the load off of me and to contribute to this idea. As time passed, a year went by leading up to last fall. I had a lot going on, I was working all the time trying to complete this pack and then everything happened.
I've been on a couple of times here and there since then. Just trying to muster the mental energy to do something. It was really tough tbh. But again, Minecraft is the only thing that allows me to escape and open my mind to think outside the box a little and not be stuck within my thoughts. It was therapeutic and helpful to me.
Cut to today, I am sitting here, another week has passed, still plugging away on everything and all of this hit me. Like how much I have dedicated to a video game that in return, unknowingly has given me so much in return.
With all of that said, I have decided to revamp, rename and redo ( not everything ) but a bunch of stuff with this upcoming pack to make it even more special not only for myself but for those who choose to download and view an idea that i had, with hopes that in return, will give them something more than just a video game, but a place, and experience, and escape that puts a smile on the players face.
Again, thank you all for taking the time to download, comment and support whatever it is i do on here. Its beyond making packs for me. It about making something bigger that can help another escape to place of comfort and joy, even if its just for a little bit.
Cheers and keep posted for updates coming about the pack. Demo WILL BE COMING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS!
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