Game Update

Finished the basics on another stage and we are moving to the next one. By basics I mean that we created a landscape, towns, invisible zones, and set all the basic dialogue. It’s not much of an update this week as it’s mostly just content that I will continue to work at. I’m pretty worried about my motivation to get this done however. I do want to start releasing new stages for players to try out soon as well. We might work on an update to release up to three stages.

Personal Update

It’s been a whirlwind of a week as I finished up with my students before the Christmas break, prepared for two children’s birthday parties, and spent time with my girlfriend. I’ve truly been on quite an emotional roller coaster. Overall I feel very happy about where my life is going and how things keep recovering and getting better and better. It almost feels like I’m waiting for the next crisis right now.

Speaking of crisis, I’m still looking to fix my garage which will take quite a bit to do. I may have to save up for a couple of months to do it. After that I really want to focus on building my investment accounts as much as possible. This year will be the first year that I will be filing taxes for my small business. It’s likely that it will be pretty negligible as I spend a lot more than the game made.

I was listening to some self development video today after spending some time with my parents. It talked about focusing on only one goal at a time and putting all my effort into it. I feel like I’ve become pretty accustomed to taking “massive action” on some front or another. I’m not sure I’ve every put all my eggs into one goal, but maybe I was already doing it. It made me ask myself if my one goal was my video game or if it was something else. To be honest I’m pretty sure it’s something else. That kind of makes me a bit worried as it means that the game will probably take much longer than I intended to finish. I wanted to have all the stages built for the game this holiday season but I am way off the mark from that right now. I need to focus more.