Alright, I think I’ve gotten back into the groove of posting on here after taking a break because of mental health reasons. Doing posts on here has actually helped with that so I guess I’ll keep it up.

Progress on the adventure game is going well. I think I’m “done” with my game in that it’s playable from start to finish and it’s basically all there. Now I get to just spend the next few weeks testing it for bugs and adding more jokes, and that seems nice. Overall this was a very good experience for me. I’ll finally have shipped a game in Adventure Game Studio, which I’ve wanted to do for at least a decade, and learned a lot in the process. Having a deadline made sure that happened. However, having a deadline is always a little bit stressful for me so I’ll probably take a couple of weeks off after it’s turned in so I can recover. I wouldn’t quite say I’m burnt out, but I think that if I jumped straight to another game I would be.

I’m looking forward to the break though, because I’m going to have a bit of time off in December and will be able to chill and also maybe stream some video games. Maybe some that I will cover in my GOTY awards on here! If you saw my previously grumpy post, I want to see more recognition of indie games, even ones that aren’t on Steam. I’m kinda of bitter about games only being seeing if they’re on there, so I have started putting together a GOTY list and also a For Your Consideration form. I only launched it an hour ago and I’m already discovering a lot of cool stuff I never knew about. I guess if you want to hear about cool things, just make a post saying “tell me about your art!” These won’t have any nominees listed, because that only pits people against each other. I would like to make certificates and send them to people, but depending on the volume of this, they may have to be digital or I’ll lose a lot of money. We’ll see. Not everyone will claim one so maybe it won’t be overwhelming.

I don’t remember if I posted about the other adventure game I was working on before I started work on the one I’ve been blogging about. It’s a sci-fi one made with stop motion animation using clay. I posted about it a few times on Cohost but I don’t know if I did anywhere else. I’d like to jump to that next after I take a short break. It already had a good amount of work done and should cruise along pretty quickly now that I know AGS pretty well. There’s also a stop motion FPS I had started work on and may jump to after that, even if it’s just a very tiny game. I had a lot of fun working on that too. The design doc was already done and so was a lot of the artwork. I have a stack of games I’d like to make but won’t talk about them until I start development on each one or else I don’t think it will happen.

Well, that’s it for this week. Hope you’re doing well!