Malu-malu kucing to Proud Official: My Indie Jam 2026 Journey

Halo friends and readers, 

I remembered we had a blog! Yay~!
Amber here! Known as Karin in Vtuber realm.
Today, I’m excited to share a little behind-the-scenes story about my unexpected experience as an official content creator for Indie Jam 2026. If you've ever wondered how an indie game event can extend beyond physical limits or been curious about what it’s like to represent indie games from behind the screen, I am here for that as I want to practice and learning on writtings.

Taking the Leap: From Quiet Fan to Content Creator

YEARS ago, I attended Indie Jam in Malaysia quietly as a fan. I was always a bit shy about introducing myself as a streamer or VTuber, I was just there to enjoy and appreciate the creativity of Southeast Asian indie developers. Back then, the idea of standing out as a content creator at the event felt a little intimidating.

Fast forward to 2024, and I saw an announcement by The Magic Rain about their first ever creator program for Indie Jam: 

“For the first time ever, apply to become an official Indie Jam content creator and gain access to creator-only perks!” - THE MAGIC RAIN. 2024

 

source: https://x.com/themagicrainMY/status/1854146747108405601?s=20

Honestly, I thought it was a cool opportunity but was swamped with life, newlywed and busy with IRLs in Singapore, so I passed on it. The event still felt very localized, so I didn’t immediately see myself as part of it.

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Art Adventure: Making a chibi emote and learning how to do Pixel Art

Today I learn how to create Pixel Art from an existing image with Photoshop.
It all came down from a gif that I watched like years ago. It was intriguing but I forgot where I found it and how to do it again.

Today that curiosity was answered by finding a similar way to convert an existing Image to Pixel Art.

This was the existing image.                                                     This is the Pixel Art after conversion.
                                                                                  

I will include how to do the conversion tomorrow as its getting quite late now. 

Using PS3 MOVE motion controller in PC (windows 11 2026)

 

Ivory brings home an old PS3 motion control. I never actually care or interested in it but I was curious and up for challenge of what I can do with it. The motion controller was include :

• PlayStation Move Motion Controller, The wand-like controller with the glowing sphere that tracks your movement. 
• PlayStation Eye Camera: Plugs into the PS3 and tracks the ball on the controller to determine its position in 3D space.  
• Navigation Controller: A one-handed controller with a thumb-stick and buttons, used for movement and actions in many games, as the Motion Controller lacks these
  
   

Dumpster Diving Adventure: Finding a PS4 and trying to see if it works or not.

 On this time, during my adventures in dumpster diving have provided me with a valuable bounty.
A Playstation 4! Granted the SSD was missing so I managed to finagle a SSD out of another PC part that was mostly broken and now it is up to me to see if it works or not.

Will post update in this blog to see if it works!

My Streaming Setup take 2: OBS Settings & PC Specs for Monster Hunter Wilds.

I haven't stream much lately I have been issuing of streaming monster hunter wilds for a year where I cant even stream MonHunWilds with my L2D model. But this is worst, I can't even stream it with just reactive, I keep having encoding issue. People: Have u try the recommended OBS setup? Me: I HAVE.

After looking properly at my specs -> Ryzen 7 7700, RTX 4070 SUPER, 32GB RAM. I realized something reassuring:
my setup is not weak at all. In fact, it’s a very solid creator machine in 2025, okay maybe just upper mid. In this season a lot of people are angry with ram issues due to AI using a lot ram memories.

 

Hello 2026 thoughts

New year… hmm.

Honestly, it almost feels the same as every other year, ups and downs. But if I really think about it, this year was better than the last.

As with every year, and every day, sometimes I did bad, sometimes I did good. Nothing new.

I lost my menstruation this year, and… I think I’ve accepted it but it's not the final destination yet. The same way I accepted losing my strong feet and gaining metal plates and 7 long ass screws. Both are cool in their own way... but accepting it wasn’t easy at first.

The people around me are mostly great...kind, patient, most of them I believe are good souls.

My husband, especially, had to handle most of my nonsense, that includea my fam and friends, oh the ExCo gang dealt my nonsense a lot, imma say sorry raya nanti yep2. 

It feels really good to be able to express myself. To have deep talks.

To understand more things, improve together, fight together (just to survive), understanding each other, play games together.

It feels good, man.

I love hearing your stories and seeing your progress.

Some of you are climbing out of critical situations.

Some of you are facing even more problems and feeling lost.

Some of you are starting new journeys.

Some of you are staying comfortably where you are.

And some of you just… disappeared.

Watching all of this makes me want to stay. To see what happens next this year.

My goal isn’t anything grand.

I just want to witness your journeys.

It reassures me.

I’ll remember you somewhere along the way.

And I’ll try to improve myself too, so maybe, one day, you can be proud of me.

I'll be 30 this year, who would know I have possibly ro reach to this age. Bruh~ IM OLDDD T-T. I just wanna a good job and be stable. That's all. I want to grow around people who wants to grow with me. I want to see people work together around me, I want to be in control of myself.

I hope to stay Malaysian while being in Singapore. I used to not care about it untill I'm scared if I lose my value and identity as Malaysian. I'm Singaporean too.

I want the coexistence.

But I’ve been Malaysian for almost 30 years.

Those values shaped how I speak, how I care, how I endure, how I survive.

I want to keep that part of me.

I want to share it.

I want to carry it with me until the day I die.

I'll be more focus on writing this year to note for the future.

1st post!

 Ayyyyy finally a blog of us!