2024 has drawn to a close, so what do we think?
well, evidently, i did not meet the deadline i set out for my game, since it was meant to release in november, and it's nowhere to be found. the last couple months have been pretty difficult for game development, but still, i've put a lot of time into this already so i'm gonna see it through to the end.
The Dreamer, The City, Wordless, will release sometime in early 2025
as for other things i want to do in 2025, well, i definitely don't want to make any promises about other releases. while i've got stuff planned, it's not like i've actually started any other project, so who knows how things will turn out. The Dreamer, The City, Wordless was meant to be a small project and now i've been working on it for almost a full year, way longer than i ever intended, but my ideas always balloon in size. i can't help but over scope.
doing something smaller would help develop my skills, mainly when it comes to coding, but ahhh... we'll see.
i do want to draw more though. drawing used to be my main thing years ago, so much so that making comics was my big goal, but i never got there, nor do i think comics are the kind of thing for me, looking back on it now all these years later, but that doesn't mean i wanted to dismiss drawing altogether. back in 2021 i just started drawing less and less, partially because i was developing ROADKILL AGORA, and started getting into 3d modelling too, but for many other reasons as well.
over the past 3 years i've drawn so little, and i want to change that. even if it isn't for a "proper project" like a comic or game or what have you, i just want to draw more. draw for drawing's sake. get better at it. so that's another thing.
(i've also updated the ART page with a couple of new pieces, but it really is only a couple. hopefully it'll have more new art in 2025)
i also want to write more in 2025, and put more of my writing out there.
there's a certain project, a visual novel, that i've been trying to write since early 2022, and i've gone back and forth and back and forth on it, restructured and rewritten it despite having a full draft done, and at this point i've basically just scrapped everything i had. it's the main thing i was working on in 2022 and 2023, and i've got nothing to show for it. one day i will return to that idea, i haven't completely scrapped it, not in the slightest, but it has changed a lot over time, for all kinds of reasons.
anyway, that isn't to say that i'm going to return to that visual novel in 2025. i don't think i will. my point is that i want to write things and actually fucking release them for other people to see. i've got no right calling myself a writer if i don't publish anything, nor is there any satisfaction in making promises and teasing stuff only to deliver nothing.
you might have picked up on it from its title, but 'The Dreamer, The City, Wordless' isn't going to have a lot of words. an extremely deliberate decision, obviously. but it still means i don't get to work my writing chops with it.
so hopefully i'll write more in 2025 and actually release said writing to the public, be it in the form of a game, short story, visual novel, whatever it takes.
anyway, i think that's about all i can say. this ended up mainly being a rumination on what i hope to do in 2025, rather than a look back at 2024. but i just don't know what i can say about 2024, to be honest. ups and downs, eh. maybe i'll have more to say next year.
once again, thank you to the lovely Katey for doing all the work on the site for me. check out her games!
see you in 2025