Random Life Update

[alias_sqbr]

My therapist suggested I might be burning myself out working too doggedly on a game lately, I was dubious but whenever I feel stuck I've instituted a policy of taking a break not just until I feel up to working again, but until I have felt up to working on a different creative project for a while first. And the positive effects on my mental health and creativity, both generally and even regarding my game, have been significant!

And also it SUCKS. I have this straightforward option for immediate You Did A Thing dopamine right there and have to IGNORE it and find some other more vague, complex source. Excruciating! Especially since all creativity for me has to work around long stretches of Being Too Ill To Do Anything.

So yeah, after much thought about what creative thing I could be doing this time...I am writing this post haha.

Anyway. Life is not too bad! Had a bunch of annoying health stuff, nothing serious just tiring, but despite that I am successfully if intermittently working on a game! It's a remastered version of a game I released 7 years ago, because I'd run out of energy rather than being entirely satisfied with it. So I am happy to see something much closer to my original vision coming together. But making games is so sloooow it is taking forevver, even with the vast majority of it already done.

Also we got a benchtop dishwasher and it's been really good. We have to hand fill it with water because there was no way to get the plumbing to work, and it's too small to handle everything, but it still makes washing the dishes overall way less exhausting.

I'm currently playing the otome (romance) game Nor9 for the switch and it's pretty good, and am still having fun in Jack Jeanne fandom. A friend dragged me into Twisted Wonderland aka "what if there was a magic school full of hot boys inspired by the villains from various Disney properties" which is more fun than it has any right to be, I am not playing the game (gacha + phone game = no) but the plotty videos are on youtube and the ongoing anime is pretty good.

HMMM I feel there was something else but this will do!

Comments

[anghraine]

I feel you, lol - I had to force myself to slow down before I fried my brain even though it's like WHAT ABOUT TWELVE DIFFERENT FIC CONCEPTS THAT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD. I HAVEN'T POSTED ANY ST ON AO3 HOWWWWW. So good luck on your game while working at a reasonable pace :)

[lassarina]

I'm glad you found a way to keep going, even if it's a bit frustrating in its own right!

[alias_sqbr]

Thank you! Somewhere in the list is your art prompt, I got sidetracked by a totally different game art idea but eventually!

[alias_sqbr]

Thank you, me too!

[anghraine]

I enjoy unscheduled gifts, so I'm sure I'll love it whenever it drops! I get the distractions of other projects (lol, my Ellipsus drafts folder is pretty much constant vacillation between the cis(ish)swap f/f fic and the transfem nb!Kirk/bigender!Spock AU of "Turnabout Intruder." So best wishes for us both in whatever moves us :D