What’s Up, Everyone.

Happy New Year’s everyone! Seems like it’s quite late to be saying that at this point, but hey, this is our first official posting of the new year, so why not start it off on a cheer? It is indeed getting late into January already though, huh? Late enough we’ve got to get our feet kicking up some dust from running towards something already! So let’s do that.

Today’s the day we we’re planning on laying out the first of our year’s Road Maps, and so we will, but rather than pack what is a post on a specific topic full of goals and planned steps with short-term current events and news, best we branch that off and make a status post about what’s what huh? Well, we’re here now, so off we go.

The Current Situation

Let us begin at the beginning, seems like the place for it, eh? We’ve been back for the New Year for a chunk over a week now, as predicted back as the calendars changed, so that’s good news right there. The bad news is, as is obvious, we’ve still not got the final pieces of the now long-awaited Noemi naughtiness in hand and hence no release yet. That’s where we stand. Since we’ve been back we’ve been rather quiet we admit (we’ve been around Discord and Twitter though, so that’s something). We’ve simply been trying to keep things going while avoiding some of the painful pitfalls of the year before. We don’t think that going into much detail on what those are will be helpful right now, but perhaps one day. For now, know it’s being worked through on a personal level and actually, it’s starting to brighten up a little at last.

Sadly, we’re still in a bit of a twilight state of development where we could be hitting the last steps of building and releasing anywhere from a few hours from now to a few days, and so we haven’t been here posting as often as usual. What would we be saying if we did anyway? “Sorry, not today. But tomorrow, maybe!”… Who wants that? Not us, and we suspect not you. No, instead we’ve been getting what we can covered, keeping the stress and self-hairpulling down for the good of all, and readying up for the year ahead.

What Now Then?

Well, as we said it’s already running late into January, wow, and we figure we can’t keep schtum forever, we’ve got things to do! Important things! Sexy things! We’ve got to get the year started already! And so here we are.

The game is still going to be a couple more days at least, enough that by waiting to finish it now before coming back to posting and kicking off things truly, we’ll only back up into another corner. Let’s not do that. And so as said, we’re posting the first of our Road Maps for 2023 today, which will be AoH’s as it’s been a while since we’ve seen Nat and she is the first of our pair after all. Later in the week we’ll have Noemi’s, unless fortune smiles and we’re superseded by her release, in which case it’ll be soon after. We’ll also be having some internal discussions about what’s to be done on our side about February and our fans, but we’d best discuss those before we make any public announcements.

What’s Next?

After our Road Maps this week, we’re actually not quite sure ourselves what exactly is to come next other than our Goals review at the end of the month as per usual, that is until we get Noemi’s v0.20 completed which is top priority. We have a number of things to catch up with on our list, but we know they are all best kept until after the game art is done. These include (and come after getting AoH on the move):

- Our Backers’ Promised conclusion to our Bad Santa’s “Stay or Swap” game from the New Year, and it’s to be a doozy, so we can’t be missing it. Better late than never, as they say. Can you believe Noemi won all 4 rounds of that game…? Even we’re somewhat surprised!

- Our Team Birthday party, which happened to fall last Friday, making beWilder 5 years old as a team now. Delightful. Who doesn’t want to see our girls get their party frocks on a little, you know?

- We have had a fun little giveaway to play with as we try out something with the fans. We’ve made mention of this back in December, but for now we’ll keep quiet on that one lest we seem to be taking the eyes of the ball anymore for right now. Still, stay tuned!

- We’ve got some other admin things to clear up as well. Handover post goodness, a celebration of our first Twitter 100 (well, maybe we’ll skip this one for time’s sake, it is rather modest of a milestone), and some personal work too.

All that’s on our mind to do and make enjoyable, but first things first, got to get the game up and out. We still can’t give a set time of when that’ll be though, that’s why it’s a prickly time for all, but know we’re still here and still going.

And so… Well, that’s really it, huh? Basically, we’re alive, well enough, and still kicking, as it may not have seemed so much lately. It’s true though. Here we are, and there’s our short-term plans to prove it too! Better get a move on with’em then. So, to the AoH Roadmap! We’ll see you all there…!

Be alive and kicking, and beWilder!