2023

Hey guys! I know I have been quieter here for months - I've been knee-deep in working on Colossal Cave... which is coming out on Thursday!  I hope people like it - I had a great time working on it, working with Ken & Roberta along with a lot of other great folks... seriously, it was good to hear old-school stories about Sierra straight from the man himself.  I had to pinch myself, because for almost every day over the last 8 months, I talked to Ken! The man has great stories - and at his heart, he's just a guy who loves programming and making things happen.  I hope Colossal Cave is just the start of more projects from him and Roberta.

But back to our lingering IQ projects - Roehm to Ruin is slated for a May 2023 release now... I have to finish editing and recording Steve Patrick at Roehm, and get those files in game... but it's time to wrap that up and get it out.  

I'm going to be straight up and say that the last three years of my life have been really difficult - and, they're not really going to get much better.  The kidney transplant I had in November 2020 has never really worked right, and it's been a slow decline, but the end of it's tenure is near.  I'll probably be returning to dialysis in the next couple months.  Which... I ain't going to lie, is soul crushing.  But I'll get through it.  We're going to finish up Roehm to Ruin, and then try and salvage Part II of Order of the Thorne.  There's a lot of pieces for it, but it needs a lot of work.   

Frogsheen also needs a lot of work - I am trying to find a partner for this game to help me complete it, because it's so fun already and it really needs to be finished and put out.  So we'll see.

So many of you have been with me for years, and god - I appreciate it.  I hope I'm around for a lot more - but I might not be.  I've taken steps to make sure the assets for these games end up in the right hands, if (God forbid) something happens to me and I am no longer her to oversee their completion.

Making games has been a real joy, and I'm going to try and lean into that and remember that for 2023.  You all have been the best, and I look forward to sharing our work with the small niche of the world that likes what we do!

Happy new year, all, and thank you again for everything.

Bt

(~Steve)