I ported the PC speaker title music of my 2021 ZZT game Cyber Purge to the ancient and long-forgotten PC speaker music format known as ANSI Music, and then drew a new image of its hero Takami Bluesky to embed it in. The original .ANS-format ANSI art file has ANSI Music instructions for ANSI Play embedded inside of it, complete with prompts to press Enter to play or Escape to quit, but given only a fraction of people in the world would go through the trouble of downloading DOSBox and an ancient music program just for one piece of music, I opted just to attach the art and music together for this post. Enjoy!

holy crap i just realized at the last moment that i actually drew enough this year to do one of these!

_{aah reimu my beloved...}

not a big level of technical improvement (almost none honestly), but i wasn't really expecting that. i was trying to prioritize drawing for fun and not letting myself get too stressed.

going forward i want to get better with colors. i stuck with the same palette pretty much the whole year lol. i've been looking at illustrations lately that have so many bright, beautiful colors. i want to draw more like that.

so here's to next year! 🥂

lookit

“H-hey, uh, how far are these changes gonna go, d’you think?”