ABOUT

Pokemon (Games/Manga/TCG/Anime/Etc)

Undertale/Deltarune

2001: A Space Odyssey

Kuroko no Basuke

Kagerou Project

Minecraft

Video Games/Game Development

Writing/Storytelling/Character Design

Art/Drawing/Furries

Sewing/Plushmaking/Plush collecting

Sci-fi/Aliens/Space

Mathematics/Physics/Chemistry

Paradoxes/Time Travel

Gamedev/Webdev

Drawing

Handsewing

Crochet

• I don't drink soda anymore even though my favorite drink is Dr Pepper
• My philosophy is that anyone can learn to do anything they want at a decent level, they just have to get over the idea of perfection and be patient with themselves

The first time I ever made a webpage was during a one-time computer workshop in elementary school. I remember it being a very eyestrainy magenta colored abomination, but I was proud of it.

I wasn't really allowed to go online much in my childhood, so my next experience with HTML/CSS wasn't until I joined Tumblr in highschool. There I would frequently make minor edits to themes for my blog. I used to love making OC pages.

After highschool I went through a lot of changing majors and not really knowing what I wanted to do. Until I discovered Gamemaker Studio after playing Undertale. At the time I had a lot of free time, so I taught myself how to code. Eventually my aunt showed me a university that had a bachelors in video game programming. And I decided to go for it.

While studying programming, I also had to take a couple of web development classes, and I found a new love for webdev. At some point I found Neocities, and made an account. I got the motivation to start making my website after seeing people on the pet collector site Dappervolk make some useful quicklinks using HTML/CSS. I thought rather than having those links be on a pet page, I could just use a website that I could access quicker. One of the first pages on this website was the petsites page!

Over time the site has grown to host pages for a lot more of my interests, and it continues to grow nearly every day. I'm incredibly proud of all I've done with this website, and everything that I've learned from it as well.

I mention this a bit in my homepage, but this site basically serves as my home on the internet. I think everyone is a little worn out from social media and how the internet has turned into an algorithm-based race to virality. I can't fully move away from social media yet (all my friends are there), but having a temporary escape has helped me a lot.

Another function for this site is to serve as a place to organize my internet experience. On Tumblr I loved to save tools, tutorials, and references for things I care about or thought I could use. I even have a blog whose entire purpose is to do that. But I feel that this is much more customizable, and probably easier to access and share.

I've leaned into also using this site to show my creative projects without the expectation of getting "likes" and "shares" about it. I feel a lot more proud of my works when I don't post them to social media.

I also just really enjoy web development, I like designing pages and coding them and I like filling pages with words about the things I love. It's a long-term project I can work on whenever and however I want to.

This site's biggest visual inspirations are Undertale and the Earthbound series of games. The visual themes of the site take a lot from the graphics of those types of games. I also take a lot of inspiration from point and click adventure type games, evident in how I make each subtitle imply the visitor to my site is moving around and interacting with different objects and areas in "Oaaky's World."

Now as for the name, why Oaaky's World? Well, Oaaky is an online persona I came up with for myself. The name Oaaky originally came from Green Oak, the rival character in Pokemon RGBY.

Growing up I always loved the concept of rivalries as seen in the Pokemon world, so I identified a lot with basically every rival character in Pokemon, but especially Green. The reason I added an extra 'a' to the name was because the username 'greenoak' without an extra 'a' was usually taken on most social media. Eventually I ended up dropping the 'Green' in the front for my persona and I added a 'y' to be cuter!

The 'World' part of my website's name is explained by my final, and yet technically first, inspiration. I chose to title my website Oaaky's World because I wanted this site to feel like a physical place, like a whole other planet just for me. This desire for a planet-theme actually came from the feeling of wonder I felt as a child reading The Little Prince. I found it fitting to call back to that book since everything I'm doing here is motivated by not wanting to let the world take away my sense of wonder. It's my way of rejecting the closed-off bubbles created by social media.

Something I love about the indie web is being able to explore and see everything other people create, I feel like I learn something new every time I visit a new website. Every site I've seen on Neocities has been an inspiration, and I want my site to be that for others as well.

This website features two characters from a story I've been (very slowly) working on. Their names are XR and Ben.

XR is a robot who got transported to another universe and whose atoms are slowly disintegrating because they are incompatible with her current universe. She is trying to get back to her universe.

Ben is an alien whose species is taking refuge on Earth after their planet became uninhabitable. He is from the first generation of aliens to be born on Earth, and works at a physics lab in his college. In his spare time, he likes surfing the web and playing video games.

The two of them meet as Ben is going home from his job one night. XR is malfunctioning badly from her condition, and comes across Ben, who helps her out.

When I made this website, I partially wanted to use it to make profiles for my OCs. So I made these two mascots of the site. The main reason I chose them is because I really like their designs. I feel like they fit in really well with the vibes of the website.