Change of plans

Hey everyone,

after taking your feedback, the past couple of months, but also how I currently feel into account, I've come to the conclusion that working on 2 projects in parallel isn't really working out for me.

Having to do constant mental context-switching between 2 completely different projects is harder than I thought, especially getting my brain back from "GoV mode" into "HHR mode", but also vice versa is challenging every time, and having to manage two sometimes conflicting release schedules on top of that doesn't help, either.

So I need to get back to a point where I can focus on just 1 game.

That said, GoV was getting relatively close to the content targets I had set for myself anyway, which would apply if it didn't become some massive hit (which it didn't).
Plus, it's honestly never been my fav project; easy to develop, yes, but too simple to be fulfilling to work on for me.

Because of this,

• I'll double down on GoV for the next 2-3 months, add everything I still absolutely wanted to add (which is still a lot, btw), then call the result version 1.0, and any further updates afterwards will mostly depend on my co-dev xtone (who'll be busy for a while due to IRL work though, so no guarantees when or even if more updates will happen).

• GoV 0.8 is now planned for later this month, GoV 0.9 for August, 1.0 for September.

• I'll put HHR largely on hold during this time; 3 € / 3.50$ tier will be treated like 5 $ tier for this time and get full GoV early access as compensation. But if you're a patron and ONLY here for early access to HHR updates and care about nothing else, I honestly recommend dropping a tier or taking a break for now.
  There are some other smaller issues and challenges with HHR I need to work out too, I'll announce ahead of time when HHR updates resume.

I know a lot of you would probably prefer that I managed to keep the status quo and just somehow increased development speed for one or even both games, which I can completely understand.

But some of you were right, the current approach just feels like a guaranteed path to burn-out for me, I already feel dangerously close to that sometimes; and I think everyone will agree that that would be the bigger evil.

So I hope you can at least understand these decisions.

And to everyone who (also) likes GoV, you can really look forward to what you'll get over the next 3 updates, they'll be BIG compared to any updates you got before, and they'll arrive fairly quickly, too.

Stay tuned,

-OCN