Friday Rambles 2024-05-03

It's the first Friday Rambles of May, 2024.

Exactly one year ago at this time, I was freaking out, trying to finish my game in time to meet my launch date of May 4. I was getting roughly 3 hours of sleep per night, and all hours that weren't eating food or going to the bathroom were spent finishing the game. And then a month later I became very busy with real life things, and really haven't been able to really focus on game dev ever since then, which is great for someone who has decided to make game dev my primary job. Once I'm back at home and settled in to the new apartment I'm gonna do so much work... like so much...

ANYWAY

I found time to draw a pic at least to commemorate the occasion, and I think it turned out good enough that I can use it as my Steam capsule art once the bonus story chapter is out.

 Above: "key art"

I was a bit pressed for time, because I needed to post this today, so it's not 100% what I had first envisioned (like I was thinking I'd do all the cool lighting stuff like I did for Angel Whiskey pic from a couple weeks back). I need to draw more, because I've drawn like, 2 things this entire year and I'm collapsing into rust.

I'm a bit mad I don't have a story update done a full year after I decided I'd do one, but I really did have more important priorities in real life. I hope people don't care and aren't like "wow this free update i've been waiting for all this time for this non-live-service game wasn't worth the wait, even though it's free". Anyway the big thing I'm doing for the anniversary is "game is cheaper than usual". But cheaper than by a larger amount that usual! That's right! I've stairstepped the discount down to 30% this time! And I'm pretty happy with the sales numbers so far. I can pay for health insurance for another month! Hooray! [TMI Aside: Did you know American health insurance companies will block foreign IPs from accessing their websites? That's really cool when you're trying to pay a monthly premium or dispute a denial of a claim while you're overseas!! Good thing I have a US based VPS and know how to set up a SOCKS proxy or I would have been screwed!!]

Yeah, technically the one year anniversary is 5/4, but the sale is going on 2 days early because I need to be somewhere this weekend and can't do video game marketing stuff. Whatever

If you have instagram, I'm doing a small Q&A thing there like I used to do, in the stories with the questions sticker. The secret details I'm sharing you've already seen, though. But maybe you might find it interesting idk

So what else.

I wrote some more story stuff for the story update. It's really stupid and funny and cynical. I think it fits perfectly within the game, without being a mere retread of the original story, while also not affecting future canon (for the most part), so it's perfect for a bonus story. i'm excited to flesh it out. For real this time. Really! Not like the 30 previous times I've said this.

I've also decided to take some time to design some more stickers while I'm stuck away from my game dev computer anyway. Do you like stickers? Well too bad! I'm making more! The shop is still closed at the moment, but it'll be back in June when I'm all moved and settled.

So the plan for the next week is to draw some stupid comics so I can remind people that I'm having a sale and so I can draw stupid comics, which I actually enjoy doing. Of course, on top of all the other stuff I said I'd do above, but honestly this is the one thing that will probably actually happen.

Okay, I'm done rambling for the week. It's crazy it's been a year of me rambling about making video games and video games content without having actually made any new video games or video games content. wow. cool. well, rest assured that i'm actually really busy with real life responsibilities that i don't readily share on the internet, that's keeping me from being as productive as i wished i were. Okay! Thanks for your support, as always! See you next week! :)