Developer's Journal 4:45

Hey everybody.

Well, after all that bullshit last week about powering up the mountain summit, I regret to report that this past week has been my least productive in the three years I've been working on the game. Remember when I told Satan to get behind me? Well, he did get behind me. And then he bent me forward and fucked me in the ass. Yep, turns out it's not a good idea to let the devil get on your blindside. Not sure what Jesus was thinking with that one.

Along with several of my family members I got hit hard by a virus, maybe just a bad cold, but I got nauseous Tuesday and by Wednesday I had a sore throat that I still have. I don't know how you guys do with sore throats, but I can't sleep, so basically I haven't slept more than some light dozing since Tuesday.

As a result, I've had no energy let alone creative energy to work on the game. Sorry guys. A few months ago I powered through my mom's death and then I powered through Covid and I just kept working, but fuck there's just nothing in the tank right now. I can't do it. That's what happens when you taunt the devil. He fucks you in the ass. And it's not the good kind of getting fucked in the ass, if you're into that sort of thing. No, it's raw, dry, and scaly.

This week hasn't all been a wash. I've had both computers running animation renders so that does help me get closer to the finish line, although I really should be posing new still renders.

In addition, the nice folks at everybody's favorite pirate site voted me as one of their favorite developers and gave me a generous cash gift roughly the equivalent of a month's worth of Patreon/SubscribeStar support. I knew of another AVN writer who was advertising his services for hire and I'd been considering bringing him on for weeks. With the pirate site gift coming at the same time I got sick I decided it was the right move to hire him. I'm not too proud to acknowledge that I just need a little help getting this thing to the finish line.

I don't want to say who the writer is yet as we only just started talking yesterday. But at the moment he is playing through Episodes One through Three to get caught up on the game. I've got a few hundred lines of dialogue left that need to be written in Episode Four, and there are also a handful of scenes that I want a fresh set of eyes on. So he's going to help out by finishing those last lines and perhaps doing some light rewriting or making suggestions on a few other scenes. This is going to relieve a lot of the pressure I've been feeling lately and I think, once I get well again, it's going to help me push the renders out faster as I won't have to stress anymore about the missing dialogue.

That's all for this week. Thank you for your support and your patience!

--Monk