Magical March

Hello everyone! Time for the beginning of the month post! I'm pretty sure I used Magical March a couple of years back, but I couldn't resist doing it again because, hey, photoshopping a wizard hat onto a fox's head is really fun.

First of all, touching back on the technical difficulties from yesterday! The computer is back up and running smoothly... as far as I can tell, anyway. This is good and very relieving and luckily it wasn't too expensive of a fix either. A friend of mine donated an old laptop to the cause too, which is nice, because if this does happen again then at least I'll have a somewhat reliable backup to fall back on instead of just being left without a computer for... however long it takes to fix the computer.

The good news really though is that it wasn't a huge setback. All in all it was like... three or four days of lost progress, which, in the grand scheme of developing this game, isn't much at all. The real impact is in the lack of a game update.

I said it yesterday, but I'd like to say it a little more profusely now: apologies for the technical issues. As much as I'd like to say it's not my fault it's definitely something that could have been prevented by some forward thinking on my part, which is why I'm grateful for the backup laptop. Backtop? No let's not do that.

Anyway, I want to assure everyone that I both apologize and am taking steps to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. I also want to assure everyone that there is going to be a very big update to the gym area coming at the end of March which is going to add a whole bunch of endings as well as pushing the thing toward almost if not total completion.

I'm very eager to get v1.3 behind me so that I can get my full focus on new and exciting projects, so I'm going to be putting a lot of focus and effort into it this month to try and make that happen. I love Tiny Furry In A Huge World but I've kinda been stuck in a rut with it for a little while. Well, it's less Huge World and more just the Quest engine in general, but... what I'm trying to say is that I'm looking forward to being done with it, I suppose.

As should you! Exciting new projects besides, there's still a whole bunch of fun endings/scenes to come with a bunch of different characters. I look forward to showing them off at the end of the month!

Too long didn't read here is: big game update coming at the end of the month, new backup computer, look forward to things.

Story stuff!

Last month I posted two stories, and this month I would like to do the same. Well, two is the target, but I have a bigger third story in the works that I'd also like to get out, but given the game update and stuff it might be more around April. We'll see!

On topic but also sort of off topic, I have really been enjoying story writing recently. It was something that I was really struggling with for a few months. I don't feel like I'm quite back into my stride yet and working at my complete best, but I definitely feel like I'm approaching that level again, and that has been super satisfying.

Having writer's block was really bad. The solution to getting rid of it - this time, at least - was to kinda just relax and let go. There are a lot of stoppers in my brain that say don't write that, that's bad or you can't write it that way or this is boring write something different, you know, that sorta stuff. I think that these stoppers are important - they're good for quality control - but if you obsess on them too much then you can end up getting all gummed up in their machinations and then nothing gets done. Ignoring them for a bit is bringing them back into balance.

Did that make any sense? I hope so!

There will be another bonus story poll! It will probably be our last one for a bit because I'll be going back to the bonus poll being for game content come April. In it I will do my best to not include characters that are so popular that they just steamroll all of the other competition, which is kinda what happened with Renamon. Not that I regret including Renamon or anything, it's just that I'd like to do a more... balanced poll I guess.

I will also be posting a development log where I'll go into a bit more detail on what my plans are for A Tiny Furry In A Huge World Ultra Mega Super Plus Deluxe or whatever it is that I'm going to end up calling that. I will probably be posting some screenshots as well as talking about my general design philosophy and what my plans are to make the game feel new and exciting even if it's technically old.

I think that's it for other things?

I'm doing pretty good, you know? The power supply issue was pretty disappointing but I'm focusing on the fact that it's not a huge setback and that I still have all the time I need to hit my goals... and even if I didn't, it's not like I can build a time machine or anything. The only thing I can do going forward is do more... I dunno, can't quite remember the right phrase, but 'future proofing' I guess. Disaster planning? I dunno. Making sure that if things do go wrong that i have a backup plan, basically.

So yeah, that's March! Magical March...

That's it for now I think! I'll be doing the bonus poll nice and early this month, so tune back in in a few days for that! Until then, I hope the start of your March goes wonderfully!