Good News, I failed to write a light novel!
Posted: August 20, 2021 Filed under: Patreon Leave a comment »So at the start of the month I talked about how I was going to do no gamedev and instead write a light novel as a way to deal with burnout.
Well I failed both!
What actually happened was I got a bunch into planning a really cool story and after a few weeks I REALLY WANTED TO WORK ON A GAME AGAIN. On the one hand, huge fail right? But on the other hand, 100000% success. At the start of this month I was thinking about giving up gamedev because it was pretty much killing me, BUT in the end I couldn’t go one month before I was like “Nah OK I just have to try to make this thing.”
And the thing I started work on was like a dice rolling thing. “It’s not ~technically~ a game!” I said to myself, spending hours in all my gamedev tools on it each day “I’m still totally taking a break from gamedev!”
And then a couple of days ago I figured it was time to get the monthly build ready and picked my maze game as the one I’d release. But ~oh~noooooo~ it needed a little work on it before I could share it with my wonderful patrons. “Oh dear, it looks like I’ll have to do some game development here.” Such a pity, such a shaaaaaaaaaaame.
Meanwhile I’ve been doing other stuff to deal with burnout, you know, the recommended stuff “Eat better”, “Do exercise”, “Master sabre-wielding in virtual reality” – the usual healthy living things. And they seem to be working!
I’m not like, full energy all the time or anything but I think if I can pace myself, catch myself when I’m pushing too hard, then I can keep making games for a much longer time! And maybe even enjoy it for a decent amount of that time too!
Anyway it turns out this month had a TWIST ENDING. I ~did~ finish a light novel story and you just read it! It’s about someone who has struggled to do something that they love and tried to move away from it, but only rediscovered their love and passion and found new ways to go on stronger. THE LIGHT NOVEL WAS THE STORY GROWING IN OUR HEARTS ALL ALONG!
<3
Anyway, if you want to see my notes for the story I was gonna write (and may yet someday, I still think it’s a cool idea) it’s attached (sans research I did for it, but you can just read your favourite demon summoning book and learn the same stuff. It’s cool stuff).
And as for what I’m gonna do next? I have NO idea. But it’s probably gonna be something you can play! 😀
Anyway, thanks for all your support this month, I was really stressing about it but you all showed me my stress was for nothing, and that always makes it a bit easier to cast off <3
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