Hey everyone. Nice to see your guys’ faces again! College has been a lot of handle, as well balancing a part-time job and a contract. Unfortunately this means I haven’t had a lot of a time to develop Go Global!, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t been getting at least some progress done. As a matter of fact you can see some sprite animations I made for the main character, Inster, at the end of this post!

Today I wanted to talk about launching a new section of my website, IzzyIs Tools! These adds a couple of handy tools that I always wanted to be in one, unified place. No more having to search it every time, just bookmark a single webpage and have all the tools I wanted right there. Granted, you could argue that I could just bookmark multiple pages and put them in a folder, but a lot of these tools either want you to signup, want payment of some kind, etc. Not here! The tools will only ever run ads, and that is it for keeping the servers running (they are NOT free). I find this to be the best balance between accessibility and monetization. When making these tools I tried my best to make sure that I wasn’t just copying already existing, dominant tools that have been around for ages. This was especially true for the wheel spinner, as the main dog has been sitting up there for probably a decade at this point. For this post I will quickly go over my 3 favorite tools (and an honorable mention) in the toolset so far:

Offnote

Offnote is my favorite tool that I have created so far. It has everything that I want in Notepad on Windows and more. I find this extremely useful as the computers in my college library don’t come with something like Notepad++ preinstalled. Therefore, having it be available on the web makes this amazing. You can also download it as an app if you really wanted to. It works on most devices (as far as I am aware of). Although its main use is developers, creative writers or just about anyone can use this tool as it has a plain text option. When making this I also thought about people who use Chromebooks and as someone who owned a Chromebook once upon a time this would’ve been a great step towards writing code for the first time. I also decided to not put ads here, since putting ads on a notepad just felt extremely weird. Therefore, as I feel like this will likely be the most popular tool on this list, have decided to make this go off of donations. Server costs are only about ~$2, so that will be the goal until people really start coming towards the service.

Word Counter for Social Media

Honestly, this is my 2nd favorite tool. Not only is it useful to see the word count for something like Notepad that really only tells you the amount of characters (this does too), but it also the best part: it tells you all the social media character limits. So, if I am cross-posting something on YouTube, Instagram, X, and TikTok (happened a lot when I was a content creator) I can easily toggle those specific character limits and get to typing. I think this is really beneficial for social media influencers who cross-post as often as I did when I was a content creator. If you are a content creator, let me know how you enjoy the tool!

Placeholder Text Generator

My 3rd favorite tool (did you notice the lines make a P shape, you could also see an F). It was fun getting this thing up and running because as a game developer who wants to have multiple languages in their game I can already see all the benefits this has. If you aren’t a game developer but are a web developer, this may be useful to you since it has some features that web developers might want. I recommend checking it out for yourself to see what I am talking about. For those who aren’t developers at all it might be confusing why this might be such a useful tool. In a nutshell, some languages are not supported in some fonts (usually Asian languages), some languages may have bigger words (German), some languages are logographic characters (Mandarin Chinese) which can make it hard to see on smaller font sizes, and other languages will have you read right-to-left (like Hebrew). As you can see this is a lot that developers have to consider just from text alone and is honestly why many indie creators don’t bother with localization at all (think Stardew Valley or Undertale when they first released). Many of these indie creators that are popular today actually regretted considering localization so late in their process, as you can imagine. If you don’t want to have that be you, then utilize the tools available to you (meaning this one)!

QR Code Generator

Honorable mention here, but this is a nice tool to have even if many just need for a one-time thing. Most free options out there either make you pay (usually after a week), signup for an account, or limit the amount of QR codes you can generate. Not here! You can generate as many as you like, whenever you like, completely for free. It also includes Wi-Fi QR codes, which is not an option many people think of when it comes to QR codes! This is a general tool: meant from online influencers, to game developers, to small business owners , all the way to your average Joe.

As promised…

Hope you guys find these tools useful! The demo for Go Global! should be releasing soon™.

Oh right, those animations! Here they are. Enjoy!

Welcome to the new updated version of the website! If you are seeing this, then you have either scrolled all the way down to the infrequent or frequent amount of news covered on this website, or this is actually the first and only news you see. Either way I appreciate you coming here, I’ll make it quick.

This website was created for the sole purpose of promoting my new projects and telling the world all about the content from IzzyIs! My old website was just a placeholder. It also revealed a character who comes from a scrapped game that I never finished. That game didn’t have much content anyways, so it wasn’t a huge lost. At the time I am writing this, this is one of the final projects (not a real big one) that I had planned lined up before I go back to college. College will slow things down in terms of development of “Go Global!“, but it won’t stop it.

Speaking about Go Global! it was the whole reason why I started working on this website. It is one of the biggest projects that I have worked on yet and I won’t stop until its finish. It is making some good progress so far, but I won’t showcase or provide any more info about it until I think its nearing to a presentable state (besides I like surprises). Unfortunately, anyone who wants to see it will have to wait a little longer (even though that is a small, small group of people). This is one of the longest running projects that I have worked on in my life and with game development taking a long time no matter how simple it may look I can’t accurately depict when it will come out, but I will say its coming soon.

That is all I have really to say. You can enjoy navigating the entire website. There are no easter eggs or secrets or anything. It’d probably take you ~2 minutes to explore the entire thing. While designing and working on this website did take time away from the game, I still say it was well worth it since the website will be going beyond just Go Global!

With that I am signing off. See you soon!