Stuff you did in 2023

[VinnyVideo]

We couldn't make it out of the year without me making one of these topics!

Real Life Stuff I Did

• Stayed at the same job
  
• Stayed pretty good at being active
  
• Learned a lot more about investing
  
• Pretty much quit using social media
  
• Finally bought a 3DS
  

MFGG/Creative Stuff I Did

• Finished Career Fantasy after 12 years of development
  
• Made Debtor's Prison, a dumb game to test out different GM exports
  
• Wrote one guide at GameFAQs for an obscure Nintendo 64 racing game
  
• Did some stuff with the MFGG queue again
  
• Made some really simple music for Career Fantasy
  

Stuff I Didn't Do

• Didn't draw much
  
• Didn't perpetrate any massive heists of rare jewelry
  
• Didn't poach any endangered species
  
• Didn't get cholera or dysentery
  

[Luigibonus]

Real Life Stuff I Did

• Started a garden together where we grow our own crops, veggies, spices... etc (as well as plant an apple tree just a few weeks ago!).
  
• After taking nearly daily walks for years, I expanded upon that by also biking several times a week, sometimes for hours a day. It's just a fun thing to do!
  
• Pay more attention to my diet and eat more (I used to be very underweight)
  
• Improved my cooking skills
  

MFGG/Creative Stuff I Did

• Finally launched Level Share Square, our level sharing website... not trying to show off, just glad it's finally released
  
• Participated in this year's MFGG Game Jam (Luigi's Power-up Express... which I still plan to expand sometime in the future)
  
• More updates on Super Mario Construct (& some smaller ones for Yoshi's Fabrication Station, tho more are still to come)
  
• Joined the site staff to help out with queue entries!
  

Stuff I Didn't Do

• Create an original game (not a fangame)... yet
  
• Learn how to not be distracted so easily whilst working (Time to work on that next year!)
  
• A backflip. Maybe next year though.
  

[littlelum]

Real life stuff

• College classes and whatnot
  
• Slowly push myself to interact with people more
  

Creative stuff

• Worked a bit on a simple fan game
  

Gaming stuff

• Improved my ranking on the Mario Kart Players Page (time trials)
  
• Worked on clearing my backlog
  

Stuff I didn't do

• Get a job
  

I'm still in the mindset where the year starts in September and ends in June, and my train of thought was interrupted just now, so I can't finish this sentence.

[DJ Coco]

Real life stuff

• Been to the Netherlands for vacation
  
• Ate some kroket (they are actually good)
  

Creative stuff

• Brought the Cliax Codec codebase up to date
  
• Finished Chapter 2 and the majority of Chapter 3
  
• Prototyped several mobile games
  

[Myte]

Real Life Stuff I Did

• Learned Korean during the start of the year
  
• Got to visit Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam
  
• Got to explore one of the great beaches in my country
  
• Bought myself a Samsung Z Flip 5 as a secondary phone (I still use my iPhone 13 Pro as my daily driver)
  
• Still a software engineer at the same company
  
• Started taking masters of statistics courses (currently done with 6 units out of 37)
  
• Got a perm haha
  

MFGG/Creative Stuff I Did

• Was pretty good in visiting the forums regularly
  
• Took part in the Super Mario RPG collab which was posted in Twitter
  
• Was able to make an active art account in instagram
  

Stuff I Didn't Do

• Didn't go the gym as consistently as I wanted
  
• Didn't learn Unity/Godot/C++
  

Minus World Secret Santa Gifts: 2011- Dane

 

MFGG Secret Santa Gifts: 2012- McKnackus I ~ 2015-LuNiney ~ 2016-Mors 1 2 ~ 2017-Hypernova

 

Refs drawn/sprited by other MFGG Members:

Doc ~ DragezeeY ~ Friendly Dictator ~ Mit ~ Wiwa

[Storm Okapi]

Real life stuff:

• Made improvements to my diet
  
• Got really into coffee
  
• Learned pool maintenance from my dad
  
• Hacked my 3DS XL and replaced the broken circle pad and missing stylus
  
• Got my Wii two new third-party GameCube controllers and a bigger flash drive to hold my emulated games
  

Creative stuff:

• Created a Shy Gal alter ego to cosplay as
  
• Came up with a few ideas for my science fantasy series, and refined a few existing ideas
  

Stuff I didn't do:

• Get a job
  
• Get a driver's license and a car
  
• Move out of my parents' place
  
• Buy or build a new PC
  
• Revamp my YouTube channel into something that can get me fame and/or money
  

[Hyper]

IRL Stuff:
- Stayed at the same job as a senior developer, got a pay raise
- Went to several conventions
- Started to go to local meetups more
- Running several times a week
- Bought a project truck to restore (1993 Nissan D21)
- Traveled to 5 new states (Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin)

Creative stuff:
- Draw much more art in 2023, expanded my presence on Twitter/Bsky
- Learned Java, React Native, and GoDot
- Did some work on a particular fan game

Didn't do:
- Finish that one fan game I'm working on
- Start indie game dev
- Learn 3D modeling

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[GeneSu730]

Real Life Stuff I Did

I got a promotion at work (with a big raise and bonus to boot).
I developed a new database at my job (which is the reason why I got the promotion).
I flew to California to see my cousin get married.
I repaired a hole in my ceiling.
I squatted 270 pounds at the gym.

Stuff I didn't do:

I didn't finish my Mario fan game yet. I wanted to finish building Super Mario Nation in 2023. I have 63 stages done but I wanted to have 70 stages spread across 8 worlds.
I didn't find a girlfriend (Ahhhh).
I didn't deadlift twice my weight (a long term fitness goal).
I didn't fix my porch ceiling yet (which I will do in April or May).