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Happy 2 years Everyone!
Published: November 1st 2021, 10:24:02 pm
Hello Everybody and welcome back to weekly update that somehow actually lined up with the two year anniversary of Barkeeper's release!
Before I get into a summary I'll state the same thing I keep stating in which work was done, closer and closer to the next release but still not much to show yet.
It really doesn't feel like it's been two years, probably because for the first year I basically did nothing significant with Barkeeper, while work was done it always took a backseat to other things as well as the stalls between updates when I was hoping to get an artist and then had to learn to draw myself. My drawing has come a very long way from the humble beginnings of the tentacle arm maid that started it all, and I hope I will continue to improve to keep pumping out decent art. The original plan was to get enough interest in the project where I could bring on an artist, but for several reasons one of which is the astronomical amount of work I wanted done I eventually decided to just go solo until I really can just hire a full time artist or programmer or social media person who rambles less than I do and actually knows how to take advantage of twitter outside of just tagging an artist when you made fan art. Regardless of all that I think going solo has done a lot for me, I learned a lot that I don't think I would have in a group and certainly became clever about hiding not knowing certain ways to program(Javascript for RPGM doesn't click as much as a webpage for me). The game went from two buildings to a small city where everyone actually talks now that I found out the kids in the park had no dialogue, one of them may or may not become evil in the future(not in my game though because the house of the mouse has lawyers).
My personal life has had ups and downs and breaking through rock bottom downs, but at the moment I'm pretty good. In 2020 I actually had a case of depression that really made it hard to work, it's why a lot of translations seemed to take a nose dive after a certain point, I literally pushed through it as fast as possible once my motivation ran out so that I didn't just lay down and sleep until I felt better. Near the end of 2020 however I was on the rebound and was feeling a lot better, then 2021 hit and the emotional truck-kun failed to isekai me and I was left with another bout of depression that unfortunately I had no choice but to push through until it was over. I'm not usually a depressed person so these events were incredibly abnormal for me, though luckily they were caused by events and not just my mind so I shouldn't have that state of mind returning any time soon.
This year in particular had two goals that I remember and unfortunately it's not November and I can say with certainty at least one of them has no chance of happening, and that's getting my computer build finished. The other one being complete Barkeeper which unless I somehow develop no longer needing to sleep is a far fetched idea, I'll still get quite far though.
At the moment Barkeeper seems like it has so much more to do, but honestly once I get past a few more hurdles the rest of the game will go quite smoothly, pretty much everything that needs to be in the game is there and there won't be much more added beyond my current plan. Not to say there isn't a bunch more content planned, just not going to add an entirely new set of areas and activities and characters...probably.
Alright, ramble about everything is done.
I just want to say thank you, all of you, for your support and everything that's happened up til now. Let's look forward to what's to come and I will see you all next weekly update.