Sophie’s Screenshot Saturday #9

 Another belated saturday update, sorry about that. Unlike last time where it was my ISP’s fault, this was just because honestly I’m having a hard time keeping on top of stuff lately.

My main focus this week hasn’t been work but my mum’s birthday. We’re in lockdown together and her birthday was a BIG one, she’s much more social than me and was hoping for a large get-together with a lot of friends and family but thanks to the virus she was stuck with me. Anyway I did what I could but things are really disheartening right now.

I did get some work done too, my cubes app is basically ready for release at any time (oh it has store pages now too, on itch and steam) but I want to add a “lessons” feature with some tutorials before release but I am struggling to make any progress with that. The truth is I’m tired and angry and just… super overwhelmed. I think I’m just going to release without that feature, I really want to be all “I am going to be strong, I can do it!” but honestly I think the more difficult thing that requires real strength is to say “fuck it, now isn’t the time to burn out, and this is absolutely not the thing to burn out on”.

As always, I continue to make notes on my RPG project, it seems the longer I stall it, the more coherent the overall idea becomes so I think I might work on another light project in the meantime following my cubes app. I have plans for a kind of gamebook that is made up of linked one-page-dungeons. I’m pretty keen on the idea partly because most of the work will involve being away from screens and just doodling on paper. Things are so rough right now, less screen time is probably something I need…

Anyway, I know that I can’t be the only one feeling all of *gestures at the entire world* this – I wish I could just spontaneously have something new to give you all to help deal with everything but I don’t have it. So instead I’ll just point to my list of all the stuff you can get as a patron, maybe there is something in there that can help.

Whatever though, I want to say that I know you’re all helping me when things are really hard for everyone, which I really appreciate. And so I hope you’re looking after yourselves too. <3