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Same Place, Different Universe chapter 4 WIP 2


Image Description: A 3D render of a room with beige walls and a dark gray wood floor. Along the back wall, facing the camera is a couch surrounded by two potted plants with orange and yellow vases. On the wall to the right is a large panel of acoustic foam with rainbow rope lights around it. The couch is white with shiny blue and gray pillows.

It's recording time!...

Image Description: A chibi vector drawing of Regina looking displeased. She is wearing a blue dress with a blue to yellow gradient skirt that has a star pattern on it with black tights, silver dress shoes, white lace and gloves, a white bow with a black brooch, silver headband with black gems, and a blue jacket with black trim on the sleeves and collar. In her left hand she is holding a wand fashioned from a pipe, customized to resemble a rocket due to the original Launchpad icon.

Regina is back in serious mode! Did someone take the last snack, or interrupted her stream?


Same Place, Different Universe chapter 4 WIP 1


A mid-body black and white line art sketch of Kiah with a worried expression. She has long hair that fans out on both sides, has peaked bangs (the peaks are hidden under her hat), and is wearing a cowboy hat, a cowboy shirt with a bolo tie, with a vest. Her bolo tie has a Chariots of Colors insignia brooch holding it together.

Kiah looking worried after Marcia ran out of stamina and crashed. However, she's ready to offer something that could help...


I Was a Software Developer... chapter 13 WIP


Image description: A 3D render of a desk. The body of the desk is white and it has a sleek top that is black with a gold, blue and purple terrazzo pattern. The desk has a glass panel in the front where items would be displayed behind it, but it has an opaque stylized gradient. There is a cash register on the desk. On the wall behind the desk are shelves with a display of fabric samples with scattered crystals. The shelves are made from a dark wood with brighter orange interiors to draw the eye towards the items.

A new scene for a new chapter; there'll be a visit to a crafting shop!


I Was a Software Developer... chapter 12 WIP


An unshaded vector sketch of Valencia standing on a hard light projection of a cliff and waterfall on stage

It's time! After multiple chapters of preparing for her debut party, Valencia is on stage doing public speaking and a demonstration.


A chibi drawing of Valencia behind a podium, very frustrated over her rehearsal

This is how she feels about public speaking... (from chapter 10)


Sketch of Piper playing an electric guitar

Piper will also take to the stage and rock out to provide live music.

The sketches usually aren't this cleaned up since they'll be vectored over in the final drawing, but I really challenged myself on this!




Previous front page chapter showcases

I Was a Software Developer Until I Got Taken to the Computer World of Techlandia!


Chapter 12: Wearing It Now Is Bittersweet As I Sacrificed That Path for Another...


Image Description: An illustration of Valencia from a side view. She is standing behind a podium and shouting. Her left hand is firmly flat on the podium top and she is shaking her right hand which is curled into a fist. The caption reads '...or as my mentor would say, to be just a square working for The Man!'

Valencia gives her speech for her public debut at last and demonstrates some of her skills! Piper is in a supporting role but also rocks out on stage.

Published to home page: 7 Aug 2025



Chapter 11: Aww Yeah, It'll Be Unreal!


An illustration of Piroska boasting. Off to the right is a panel of Damien looking terrified. Piroska is saying 'She wants to challenge you to public speaking!' and Damien is saying 'That doesn't sound like it'd be much easier...'

Valencia challenging Damien to public speaking for her rehearsal already sounds unreal (see chapter 10 or the sidebar now for how she feels about it), but Piroska is telling the truth about this challenge! Will Damien accept it?

Published to home page: 31 Jul 2025



Same Place, Different Universe


Chapter 5: I Guessed Correctly That She Got It From Another Universe/p>
Image Description: Marcia and Antares walking through a hall. Along the left side of the wall are several vertical windows, and a door which leads out to a courtyard. Along the right side is a door to the cafeteria, with 3 windows on each side. The cafeteria windows have a red and green Art Deco-style stained glass decoration along the top. Further in the back along that wall is a colorful mural. Furthest in the background is a staircase, and a patterned accent wall. The accent wall has tiles in several colors while the other walls are white and the floor has gray panelling with glowing blue lines that run in parallel to the panels. Marcia is still wearing her Assassin's Creed II-inspired longcoat over a pink minidress with dark gray leggings. Antares is wearing a Bauhaus-style minidress with sunglasses and a biker jacket.

Marcia has a lot of tools for her research, including a handheld teleporter to warp herself between universes, and a device that disables cameras, but not a tape recorder to play the tape she found. However, she knows a teammate who has one, but wasn't already a member of TIMES...

Published to home page: 1 Oct 2025



Chapter 4: We'll Dazzle the Audiences!


Image Description: Terrell grinning at the camera while he had a top hat placed on him. He is still wearing his usual outfit which is much more casual and he is seated in a gaming chair or office chair. Mi-ho is standing behind him, dressed in her stage magician performer outfit which has a silver jacket with a white shirt, green brooch, black vest, silver sunflower-shaped skirt, long black boots with yellow straps, an orange top hat with a black headband, black ribbon and yellow sunflower brooch. She is posing and waved her hands in a gesture for a magic trick. She and Terrell are in the recording room and the back wall is in the background. The caption at the bottom of the image reads 'Doesn't he look fancier now?'

Regina needed to step away from the stream she started in the last chapter. In the meantime, Mi-ho and Terrell stepped in... (Kiah and Regina also got into arguments)

Published to home page: 22 Aug 2025



Chapter 3: I'm Already an Intruder Now Also a Thief?


Marcia looking displeased while she holds a cassette tape she found.

Marcia finds a tape that could have clues about her team's counterpart POMME, but she must muse about muddled morals...

Published to home page: 31 Jul 2025

Previous front page update log entries

5 Aug 2025

Yesterday I published a worldbuilding article for the project wiki:

Debuts

I created this article to be linked from the character infobox to explain the significance of a characters' debut timeframe and to list which cycle every featured character so far debuted, in the Techlandian Calendar.

The infoboxes in each of the character articles will update the Debut field to the cycle they debuted, and the real world date of what they represent being released will be moved to a separate field in the Technical section. I haven't updated them just yet because I'm still thinking over what further details I could add.

One of them I considered is splitting up the Affiliation field into separate Team and Club fields which'd help distinguish them in the infobox. I also considered adding a Relationships section with fields for a character's first mentor, predecessor (when applicable), successor (when applicable), friends and rivals.

Another section will be added in the Debut article about characters that represent unreleased hardware or operating systems.


Image Description: A 3D render of a desk. The body of the desk is white and it has a sleek top that is black with a gold, blue and purple terrazzo pattern. The desk has a glass panel in the front where items would be displayed behind it, but it has an opaque stylized gradient. There is a cash register on the desk. On the wall behind the desk are shelves with a display of fabric samples with scattered crystals. The shelves are made from a dark wood with brighter orange interiors to draw the eye towards the items.

The first WIP for chapter 13 of I Was a Software Developer... as part of a scene I spent the past few days modeling and adjusting materials.

This WIP features a semi-final design of a desk I modeled scratch and it has a section behind glass panels to display more items. It uses a stylized glass material that is opaque to the viewers since what I wanted to do by showing off crystals and containers of beads behind a translucent glass material.

I even modeled beads and containers and made materials for them when I decided to just use an opaque glass material in the display because this scene already took a lot of time 🥲 I also modeled the cash register to make one that fit an aesthetic style. However there were some rendering errors and one of them I spotted is with how the material for the register rendered and another was with one of the patterned cloths.

If I can't fix them in Blender since my computer has started to get pushed to its limits with these renders, I can manually correct the rendered images.


31 Jul 2025

From the latest update I posted on Mastodon:

"I vectored and started shading each of the illustrations for chapter 12 of my webnovel I Was a Software Developer...."
Two out of three are nearly complete, and I hope I can get these finished and publish the chapter within the next few days! After this, several articles on the project wiki will also be updated with information from this chapter. I also want to look into adding another section to the home page that showcases the latest chapters of ongoing stories.

Soon after that, I started testing an updated layout that had an extra section to showcase the latest chapters and to move the update log to its own row! This'll give some time to show off the current chapters before the next ones get published.


29 Jul 2025

The first version of this homepage is live! I just made a few last minute tweaks to the CSS, moved To the Visitors... to its own page, and added some material to the sidebar.


28 Jul 2025

I spent today and yesterday re-learning how to make CSS grid layouts. That step was frustrating since I got too rusty with my knowledge about them since I last coded one. I got stuck on some of the details at first, but when I found a great tutorial to follow along with (and was more awake), they clicked together and I could put together the basic layout!

After that step, I've been working on the finer details such as putting together a header image for the top div and tweaking the CSS for it to get it to fit just right, and tweaking the dimensions of the sidebar and the design of the menu.


27 Jul 2025

Hello World! Look what I started throwing together, an actual home page for this project on Neocities! It's simple since most of the information is on the wiki, but it was about time I put together a home page here. I published it in May to publish a story that was meant to be an Easter egg to go along with the Stories page. That story is called To the Visitors that Wandered into the Construction Zone and has been moved to its own page. It also has an article on the wiki: To the Visitors...

Putting together this homepage was something I was wanting to do at some point in the near future. I started putting this together on the 27th and had a pragmatic reason for it: I wanted to publish another WIP on Mastodon that showed images, but the instance I use to publish updates had technical issues with uploading images that day.

This was a wake-up call that I should post updates in multiple platforms; there's also the Wordpress blog which has been *the* project site when it launched in 2023, but a webpage with nothing but HTML and CSS (there's no Javascript or anything else unless I have to use them for features I can't do with HTML and CSS alone) also fills a need for visitors with older computers or slower connections. I also have fun trying to make Old Web-style sites and customizing them, while learning how to modernize them.