Maybe, Maybe May

Hello everyone!

It's May! Or is it? It's hard to tell over here sometimes. Okay, it isn't really, the date and time are in the corner of my screen all the time and that's without going into my phone and everything else, but, still! What I'm trying to say is that it's a bit hard to keep track of the days here. My regular schedule is all shot up and my time is filled with strange activities that I wouldn't ordinarily do.

Well - strange activities that I wouldn't ordinarily do for the most part. I do have one part of my routine that's usual, and that's writing. Like I said in my last post, it's been a nice escape from the harsher realities of what's happening here, and has been an important part of keeping my mental healthy all bolstered and... healthy.

This means that there will be content coming this month! Which means that here, in this beginning of the month post, I'll tell you about what sort of content is coming up. Let's get started on that right now!

Starting with game stuff, as usual! Due to everything that happened last month (scroll up a post or two if you're unfamiliar) the final release of v1.3 had to be pushed back a month. At this point it really is the most cursed version of A Tiny Furry - so many things have gone wrong physically, mentally, and now with family during it's development that it has unfortunately faced delay after delay... which is something that I will be eternally apologetic for.

This month, however, it will be coming out. Come rain or shine, come bodily injury or alien invasion, I am releasing this fucking thing and getting it off my back so that I can move onto bolder, bigger, and brighter projects. Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly proud of v1.3 - by far it adds the most content to the game of any version and it has some really cool sequences in it that I haven't really seen any other Quest game do - but thanks to all of the drama/delays it's turned into a bit of a mental monster, a big boss if you will. This month I will be slaying it.

In order to avoid burnout and stressing myself out more than I already am, I'm going to be giving myself as much time as I possibly can to write the last scenes. I chewed over this for a while because if I pushed myself then I could definitely get it out earlier, but given that I have to push myself constantly at the moment I'm going to relax on this one a bit. What I'm trying to say is that the release date for A Tiny Furry In A Huge World v1.3 is going to be May 31st, as in, the end of this month!

I'm sorry if you were hoping for an earlier release. I was too, honestly, I want to get this thing 'slain' as soon as possible. But with how much stuff is going on, I really don't want to push myself into oblivion and crash out. This doesn't mean that I'm going to be lazing off. My brain works best and is happiest when it's working on multiple projects, so, rather than bumrushing the game for the first two weeks of the month, I'm going to be making the game, working on my book, writing commissions, developing my next two games... getting myself that variation, basically!

Story time!

Story fans might remember that this month I was planning on doing something special. That something special was that I was going to release the first four chapters of my upcoming macro/micro and vore novel (yes, really, a whole novel) week by week this month, which was a pretty exciting thing for me and would have hopefully been an exciting thing for some of you too!

Sadly, though - and I know I'm saying this a lot - everything that's happening right now has forced me to push this back a bit. I have the first two chapters almost ready, but the third is only half-written and the fourth is barely off the ground and the time that I was going to use to write it has been eaten up by travel, clean up, and hospital visits. Now that things are more stable I'm back on with writing it (I wrote about 4000 words of Chapter 3 today) but none of it is going to be in a state of release until next month in June. So I'll be doing the one chapter a week thing starting next month instead.

This doesn't mean that there won't be any stories this month, though! I have three that I'm planning to release. The first two are commission related and I'll keep the details of them under my hat until release, but the third story will be the result of the bonus poll that happened back in March. In the bonus poll, I gave people a bunch of characters and asked 'em to vote for their favourites! The favourite in March was Kass, y'know, the big bird from that Zelda thing, so he'll be getting a fun story this month. What kinda story? Something, something, bird dick...

So yeah! Three stories this month... and next month, chapters... so many chapters...

Last month there was supposed to be a poll, but due to the unforeseen calamity that drove me back to England it got lost between the cracks and thrown on the back burner. This month it will be coming, though!

That's really all I have to say on polls! It'll pop up in around a week, so... keep your eyes peeled for it, yeah? You'll wanna vote in it. Probably.

I can't say that I'm doing great and that everything is sunshine and roses, but, like that one cheesy motivational cat poster, I am hanging in there. I'm eating, I'm sleeping, I'm working, I'm relaxing when I can, and I'm taking care of the family stuff as it comes. Day by day, task by task, I move forward as best I can, because I really don't have a choice.

I'd like to say more. In my head, building up to this post, I planned on writing a big pastebin or something like that where I'd go through how I felt and what it's like to be here and how I'm feeling, but when I tried to write it nothing would come out. It's safe to say though that I do have a lot of words about my thoughts and feelings, they're just... vaulted up right now. Not in a unhealthy way, or at least, I don't think an unhealthy way, I think they're vaulted in more of a processing sort of way. For obvious reasons, my mind is kinda all over the place right now.

Every day though, I look for silver linings and things to keep my mood up. I'll tell you a nice thing. Today I had a sausage roll. First one I've had in like... well, forever. They're one of those things that you can't really get in the States. Well, you probably can from some obscure fucking bakery somewhere, but it's not something you're gonna get down at the supermarket. Anyway, that sausage roll was an incredible experience, one that was both nostalgic and delicious. Of course, it's a little bittersweet too because I wish I was eating it under better cirucmstances, but still. It was great, and that was something nice that happened today.

You know what else was nice today? Writing this and posting it up to you guys. I've had a smile on my face the entire time I've been jotting this all up. To loop back around to the beginning of the post, it's a genuinely pleasant part of my routine, which is why I'm grateful to have you all here with me, and why I'm so very happy that I have people to write, program, and generally be creative for. What I'm trying to say is that you're all my muse, or something like that...

Is that too cheesy? Maybe. Will I delete it? Nah...

That's all I wrote!

Tomorrow I will be changing the Dropbox passwords since it's been a month or two since I did that. All going well, you'll all receive a DM from me with the new passwords. If you don't get it? Well, you know what to do... shoot me a message! I promise I'm super friendly and won't get bothered by it.

I'll be back in a few days with a story for everyone. A story about a little blue-haired guy who finds himself all tied up in a big fox's ashtray. You might think that this is kinda messed up, but I promise you he likes it.

Until then, my lovelies!