A lot has happened this year, let's go through it all!
Hey kids, welcome to the annual lookback, where I rant and rave about everything Jupitr Entertainment's done this year. I've done this a whole one time over on Twitter, and I'm very excited to be able to do this in blog form this time around! As I said two whole sentences ago, I'll be going through all of the projects released this year, give a little bit of insight, and just maybe tease some of the stuff that'll be happening in 2025! So slip into something warm and very revealing, and let's talk about Squeen's Adventure!
Space Station Escape
Kicking things off, we have Space Station Escape; released all the way back on February 13th! Almost to the day of this blog being published, I started work on SSE with surprisingly little idea of what I wanted it to be. Over the first couple days of development, I got very inspired by BattleBlock Theater; a game where you run around a level, collecting a certain amount of gems as fast as possible, and run back towards a teleporter to end the level.
Yeah looking back, I do realize how much of the gameplay loop I stole for SSE, but hey I made it set on a space station so it's original now. Despite that though, I'm very proud of the game I was able to make, it's probably one of my most polished and fun games I've made thus far. Definitely have plans for future content, but for now, still a very solid play!
MY LORD 1 - OneEleven Records
Next off, we have the first release from OneEleven with MY LORD 1! All the way back near the start of March, I picked up FL Studio randomly and decided to just make a song. After a couple of revisions, I decided to name it "dreaming," and planned on releasing it later in the week. I had it uploaded to YouTube and everything, but for whatever reason, I never made it public. A couple of days later I picked up FL to make another song, however I wanted to make this song a lot more electronic; with bass, synths, 808s, and all that fun stuff. That one actually released and started something super cool.
MY LORD 1 is definitely rough around the edges, but I had a lot of fun with it, and it got me into making music that I think sounds really cool. Hope to do some more cool stuff with any future "MY LORD" EPs, nothing planned at the moment but I'll definitely let you all know what to expect when we get there! Make sure to go listen to it, or not, I'm not your dad nor your mom.
Squeen's Adventure: Definitive Edition
The latest and greatest from the Squeen's Adventure series, it's Squeen's Adventure: Definitive Edition! I've had the idea of remaking the original Squeen since all the way back in 2021, but I always put it off to keep making new stuff. It's always been on my mind but it wasn't until recently that I felt like I would be able to make it feel really special.
With level extensions, achievements, a fully fledged soundtrack, and settings to emulate the old Squeen style (and that's just the new stuff), Squeen's Adventure: Definitive Edition is a game I am very proud of. I do definitely one day want to give Squeen's Adventure 2 its own definitive edition, but for right now, I'm very happy with where the Squeen series has left off.
KINGDOM - OneEleven Records
Coming back to OneEleven, we have the second release of the year and the first album with KINGDOM! I started on the album pretty much right after finishing up on MY LORD 1, and I worked on it pretty much nonstop until I got it how I liked it. I tried some pretty cool stuff with this album, going into a more "distorted" sound with some songs like JUDGEMENT and TAINTED, and those are some of my best songs.
I think I did a lot of cool stuff with KINGDOM and its deluxe edition, there are a good couple of tracks I do wish I gave some more time to in terms of mixing and EQing though. With the second album, I hope to go in a heavier direction, much more in line with the songs I love off of KINGDOM and KINGS NO MORE. Speaking of...
KINGS NO MORE - OneEleven Records
To finish off the project side of things, we have KINGS NO MORE! Much like the last project, I started on KINGS NO MORE pretty much right after KINGDOM. However in late May, I felt like it sounded too much KINGDOM, so I set it down for a couple of months to back to it with a fresh mind. I came back to it around the start of July and blasted through the tracklist.
KINGS NO MORE is definitely my best sounding project yet; with songs like REVOLT and WINGS being some of my favorite songs to come out of OneEleven. I'm very happy with how the EP turned out, and I hope whatever songs I make next come out even half as good as REVOLT (That song's so good, please listen to it).
Future Plans
Most of the time, I'm very hesitant to talk about stuff not set in stone because I have a really bad habit of announcing something early, then pretty much immediately shelving it because either it's dumb or I'm dumb (surprisingly it's pretty 50/50). However most of the things on this list are in active development right now, so hopefully they're all far enough along to where it would be stupid for me to shelve them.
Also fair warning; I'm bad at following lists so there's no guarantee that these projects will either come out in this exact order, come out at all, or will be wildly changed before release. But buckle up kids, because here's some of what you can expect from Jupitr Entertainment in 2025!
REPENT - OneEleven Records
The second album from OneEleven Records; releasing Mid 2025.
Cryon Inc.
The dark tale of a self-crowned king; releasing Summer 2025.
LightSpeed
Build up your arsenal to protect the planets; releasing Late 2025.
Final Words
And with me revealing all of my secrets to the world, that is where I'll end off the 2024 lookback. Thanks for giving this bad boy a read, it was pretty cool talking about all the stuff I did this year and I definitively plan on keeping this a yearly tradition. Also before I forget, I wanna give a special thanks to Arcade since he does this every year for Metlux and I just yoinked it last year. Make sure to give the Jupitr Entertainment socials a follow if you want to keep up with all the cool stuff happening. Hope you all have a great rest of your year, and take care kids!