❤ About Me (As a Creator) ❤


Hello! I'm MaeMelé (you can simply call me Mae if you'd like ^ ^)! I'm a transgender software developer and artist.


I've been doing software development stuff for nearly as long as I can remember, I was about 8 years old the first time I booted up a game engine. In the time I've been doing software development, I've learned many programming languages, including C++, Java, Python, LUA, GDScript, and GML.

I've especially done a lot of modding over the years, there's a probability you may even stumble on some of my work when you least expect it! (Don't expect the same for my own games though, I don't tend to finish them...)



As for art, I've been actively doing digital artwork since about 2018, I'm still learning a lot, and as such I do a lot of experimentation, doing things such as digital painting, mixed media, and of course the occasional doodle...

I hope you can enjoy following my journey just as much as I enjoy undergoing it.




Except... this is all the same stuff I told you in 2024, surely things have changed since then?



❤ About Me (As an Individual) ❤


Hi people who thought I was an entirely different person because of my name change, this is for you!

These days I tend to go by Aly, reserving Mae mostly as a pseudonym (you can still call me this, I don't care that much). I'm transgender, I recently discovered myself to be a mouse therian, and am a bit of a freak! I also go by She/They/It pronouns, in case you were wondering.


I'm a major nerd about a certain game company, despite being increasingly frustrated by the degradation of their innovation and overall product quality. At the time of writing this I recently finished replaying Super Marlon Galaxy 1 & 2, along with Super Paper Marlon. I am a proud owner of a Will and a GameCute controller (which I do not use for Smash Gross purposes, I actually can't stand Smash...sorry!). I only tell you all of this because these things have been incredibly influential on me as an individual, I would be a totally different person without these things. If this topic comes up in around me you'll watch me construct a whole wall of text in real time about how the Will U was actually the best console ever and was prematurely killed just as it was finally starting to gain momentum and I think it's very hypocritical that the Witch 2 is widely acclaimed despite being a less unique console compared to the Witch 1 than the Will U was relative to the Will and oh no I just did it again

You'll notice that a lot of my game projects have a very obvious Creature Metro influence... if only I could finish them!



In my free time I enjoy reading, going for walks, listening to music, and y'know... making art (which is very heavily influenced by the aforementioned walks). H.G. Wells is my all time favorite author and I'd love to own more books written by him, obviously The Time Machine is my favorite book ever, I should go reread it for the millionth time soon. What music do I listen to?? Um would you look at the time it looks like I can't answer any more questions oh well maybe next time!!!



❤ Tools of The Trade ❤


For art, some programs I use are FireAlpaca, Krita, and Blender. Krita is the one I use the most. For software development, I tend to use Godot, but also have experience with other game engines such as Unreal Engine 4 or Gamemaker Studio 2. I use a mouse to draw, I do actually own a drawing tablet but I hate it.


❤ Where else can I find you and your content? ❤

You can find me on these sites:

Dreamwidth | Sharkey | itch.io

This site also has an RSS Feed that I'll try to keep updated.



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