Update - 16/06/2025
Hello, and welcome to another weekly update! I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent mine mostly procrastinating, if I'm being honest. Life is kicking me in the ass lately and I'm having problems concentrating on anything. I did get a couple of things done, but it was about 10% of what I'd usually do. It's difficult to do creative work, even one you enjoy, when you have a lot of problems demanding your attention. This would have been a perfect moment to work on some layout, which can be pretty zen, but I don't have anything like that right now, all the pending work I have is writing. I tried getting some boardgames to the table, but I wasn't able to deal with rules and that sort of thing.
I'm currently trying to finish Tales From the Green, there's only about one and a half chapters left, so we're really close. I feel a bit ashamed about how long this is taking me, so I hope Ivan is not getting a crappy impression of me from this collaboration... I really should stop working with people because apparently I'm a self-centered bastard and even if a project is awesome I can't manage to be as interested in it as if it were one of my own. Working with Ivan is fantastic and he likes all my ideas, so it's not that, it's purely me having trouble being as excited about someone else's idea, as I am about my own. I'm a fucking egomaniac.
Speaking of working with others, it looks like I'll be soon launching a new Kickstarter, and it's not for one of my games. It's called Stonelander, and it's a project Alan Bahr and Simone Tammetta have been working on for 2-3 years now. It's a science fantasy game about tribes and ancient technology, the setting is super cool. It's a D100 based ruleset, with lots of things to do, it's probably Alan's most detailed game to date.
It will go live next month, most likely! All I need to do now is find time to work on the Kickstarter page...
In other news, I should be getting the Riftbreakers Kickstarter money any moment now, which means I'll send backers the beta PDF this week. I'm really excited to finally have a whole bunch of people trying it out. I think the game's in a good place right now, but the more feedback I get about it before release, the better! I'll be updating the beta file really soon.
This week I'll keep working on some Ker Nethalas stuff, Across a Thousand Hollow Vaults, getting the Riftbreakers Beta ready for KS backers, and Tales From the Green. Since I couldn't concentrate on anything productive during the weekend, I was fooling around with some new game ideas, but other than a cool setting about eldritch super heroes, I didn't really come up with anything I would want to work on right now. I have way too many projects in the works, and I desperately need to release more stuff cause sales are abysmal, and I have many thousands of euros tied up on the different in-progress games.
So that's it for this week, I hope you all have a great one!
Comments (10)
When life tears us down, we come back stronger. Hang in there buddy -- seems a trying time for both of us.
Thank you, take care!
Sometimes you gotta tear yourself down in order to build yourself back up better. Keep grinding Alex, things will get better!
Thanks, I have no intention of stopping!
Alex, you are a machine producing things, go to the mechanic or do some self repair routine, have cogs fixed and come back strong.
Haha I wish I could, but it's really the worst time to be taking breaks. The game industry is not doing good, and sales are down by a lot. If I take any type of break now, I don't think there will be anything to come back. So I need to push through and survive!
Taking a weekend off is not procrastination. It's what most people do actually ;) Don't be too hard on yourself!
Haha I suppose so, I've been working from Monday to Sunday for years now so I feel guilty if I stop.
Ah mate, Dont beat yourself up too bad. We all go through shitty periods of apathy or lack of inspiration. Youll be back up in no time. Your games are amazing and I for one am happy to wait as long as it takes to get them on the table. Dont burn yourself out for our sake. Hope your feeling a bit better soon!!
I appreciate the kind words! It's not really a lack of inspiration, for sure, it's having a hard time concentrating on what needs to be done. I'm trying to skip around different projects to trick my brain, so I'm still getting things done. It's just this weekend was especially annoying with lots of family drama. Today I'm back to it on full force.