What happened to this month? Seriously. It’s been one of those ones that feel like both two days and about six years.
I’ve travelling since last time I updated: there’s been a big family event that I went up to New South Wales for. It was great, but as it goes with these things, it takes longer to get back in the routine of normal life as I spend travelling.
In new news, though, I don’t know if anyone reads this, and furthermore if anyone reads this who will be at Continuum, but the [program has just been released]! And I’m on it! I’ll be on the Cyberpunk In The Age Of Social Media And AI panel (Friday 5pm), the Blended Plot Structures panel (Saturday 4pm) and the The Editing Mines panel (Sunday 10am).
Games projects have been sort of taking a backburner at the moment, so although I’ve started playtesting Glades, it’s going to be a while before I really start to make progress on the edits. It has come to my attention that I completely forgot to put any kind of currency system in the game, so that has to be remedied, for a start. But overall, it’s actually playing better than I expected for a first shot.
Project Butterfly has its new draft, and I’m debating on a release date. I think it depends on how much I like the version that comes out of this round of edits. It’s been in the works a while, so I’m not anticipating as much messing around with the characters and tone as there would be in a first-first draft, but still, you never know exactly how much there is to do til you’ve started picking things apart.
PhD project is so close to launch—I think I have exactly one more thing to do before I can start revealing details. Expect details on Monday, both here and on my other social media (see the sidebar!)
The Ferryman’s Apprentice 4 should get its Official Launch Announcement around the 20th, too, so keep your eyes out for that! I’m just finalising one or two things on that, too.
I hope to see some of you at Continuum! But otherwise, keep an eye out for the project launches, reach out on social media if you want, and I’ll keep you posted for the next update!
Whimsy and Metaphor 