Don't Drink and Write

Hey! Today is a pretty upsetting day, not because anything bad happened irl but suddenly I got a lot of responsibilities I didn't really want, job security-related responsibilities and can't go into it deeper than that.

I planned to drop other types of work as the game does better and put all that time into game dev related work, but until the Steam release I probably can't do it without risking too much financial-wise.

This unfortunately means that this week got a lot busier than I wanted/expected it to. I have to figure out a quick way to make a release this week and not let down anyone, but it's going to be a bit tough. There's so much I still need to work on in the game, for example there's a companion pet on the ship that deserved some development time these days as a break from developing the city content but I can't do that properly with my current conditions.

Worse is that next week is also going to be just as busy and if I'm honest it's soul draining kind of work, boring and it doesn't feel like there's any purpose to it compared to what I'm working on in here. This is a bit of a personal remark but yes it's tough.

Because I like to expect the worst, I might have to work on the scenes and not yet have time to add them to the game this week. As a potential compromise I could release some WiPs or more of the art that was supposed to go in this week, I hope if it comes down to that you won't mind it too much.

I realize that any kind of rushed work is going to make our game worse, not better, so I'd like to avoid doing work that requires 100% focus while other things require my focus. I'm really bad at dividing my focus between different things at once, I like to do one thing and do that well.

Sorry for this unforeseen situation, but I'll try my best to figure it out. I think I can see why many devs switched to a release every two months or even less frequent than that, but I care a lot about showing the work I'm doing every month to people who support, because I'm very grateful for that support.

I wrote this message with a 30-50% focus so I hope everything's understandable, but yes it sucks and I hope that Friday will come and my compromise for this week will not have upset m(any) people. As always I'm open to any feedback/suggestions on how to go about doing things so if you have any ideas please let me know.