October 23 Update (Patreon)

This was one of those weeks where I ended up frustrated even though technically things went pretty well.

A good example is all the emails I exchanged with Nutaku. They like the game enough to feature it on their site, they've offered me free marketing/placement in exchange for a period of exclusivity. Unless the content review board rejects Ouroboros, which is unlikely since the content is mostly vanilla, then this is going forward... in November. Early November, but still, I am disappointed that I didn't get the game out in October.

The most annoying thing is my home internet was dead much of the week. Now, this doesn't really stop my work all that much and I have other options for internet, but it's very irksome.

TLS progress was sadly slow, because my parallax map person has flaked out on me. This is one of the reasons I've tried not to rely too much on outside coders/artists/etc - they may be more talented than me, but few of them are doing this professionally and so things aren't always done promptly. 

I poked the person after I didn't hear back for a few days, only to find that they hadn't even started the key work. I'm not going to use this person in the future, but for now the fastest way forward is to let them finish, since some work has already been done. I'm frustrated that progress is being slowed for no good reason and apologize if I don't hit my target date.

My current hope is to get TLS 0.21.0 out shortly after I get the map, hopefully before Ouroboros releases. That will launch commercially early in November and I'm braced for that to suck up some time, but I still want to get another TLS update out in November. More info once I've finished this section and begun detailing the next.

Honestly, weeks like this are pretty discouraging for me. The things I mentioned aren't huge, but I rely on streams of productivity to keep up my energy. However, it's times like these that I'm encouraged by the fact that so many people value what I've created so much that they even support me. I'm able to do this thanks to you guys, and I want nothing more than to keep doing it. ^-^

Another thing that makes me happy: I got a fun piece of fanart. The title is "If You're Done Contemplating Mortality, I'd Like to Go Back In The Sack" and if you're thinking it looks familiar, you're right, it's based on a classic painting. Hope it amuses you as much as it did me!