HAAAAPPY 2024!!! 🎉

It is my annual tradition to take one day to document anything I accomplished during the year. It's a satisfying way to reflect on the year, and it archives my life.

My time this year was split into three projects:
The 2023 Projects video (4 months), my new SpongeBob remix (2 months), and yesterday's 1.31 Mine Blocks release (6 months)!

Aside from that, I made some music & pixel art and had other side quests, which I've made sure to include in the post below.

Previous years' posts:
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

• 3^rd
  : New Shader - "Healing Cellular Automata"
  
• 23^rd
  : Pixel Art - "Thanator vs. Panther"
  

• 25^th
  : Moderated 2020's Mine Blocks skin submissions

• (I was working pretty hard on the 2023 Update video this part of the year)

• 15^th
  : 📽 Watched "The Super Mario Bros. Movie"

• 5^th
  : AmeenDoesStuff & KofiKrumble made a Hexagon and On animation!
• 6^th
  : New Video - "2023 Projects - Where did the time go?"
  
• 7^th
  : New Music - "Where Did the Time Go?"
• 28^th
  : New Music WIP - "Grumbler Tomfoolery"

• 9^th
  : 📽 Watched "Across the Spiderverse"
• 12^th
  : Created a VST to launch in 2024 :)
• 25^th
  : 📽 Watched "Asteroid City"

• (I was working primarily on Mine Blocks 1.31 around this time)

• 2^nd
  : Moderated 2021's Mine Blocks skin submissions
• 20^th
  : New Music WIP - "Quack"
• 20^th
  : Pixel Art - "Quack"
  

• 3^rd
  : I turned 27!

• 28^th
  : New Music - "Leedle Leedle Lee (Howl With Me)"
• 28^th
  : New Video - "Leedle Leedle Lee (SpongeBob dubstep)"
  

• 24^th
  : Moderated 2022's Mine Blocks skin submissions
• 26^th
  : Mine Blocks Skin - "Learndog Skin"
  
• 26^th
  : Mine Blocks Skin - "Apple the Red Fox Skin"
  
• 27^th
  : Secret Box reached 1,000,000 views on YouTube!

• 9^th
  : 📽 Watched "The Boy and the Heron"
• 30^th
  : Released Mine Blocks 1.31!
• 30^th
  : New Video: "Scavenger Hunt in 2D Minecraft (Mine Blocks 1.31)"
  
• 30^th
  : Launched the Mine Blocks Patreon
• 31^st
  : Wrote the "Goodbye 2023!" post you're reading now!

I feel good!!!
I really ended the year strong with that Mine Blocks 1.31 release , and it was satisfying seeing my other projects come together.

This past year I also gained experience in things I'm interested in - video editing , Blender, Unreal, VST development, After Effects plugin development, JPEG compression, ... releasing a multiplayer game haha.

It's nice feeling like I've leveled up a bit - and this feeling only really happens I make these posts at the end of the year.

Welp - hope to see you at the 2024 Projects video, next year, where I'll talk more about my plans! :D

Happy new year everyone!!
- Zanz