Guess I should do a life update. It's been a while.

In short, I've been under "circuit breaker" (basically COVID-19-induced soft lockdown) for just over a month now, and have been crunching 3-4 online courses simultaneously: one in Tableau, one in SAP, and one in Python (which I've just started). I've also been planning the game I want to make: adding ideas, and tossing them out at almost the same rate to keep the game small and not overly ambitious.

Right now I want to redo my story…yeah, almost all of it, really.

The original idea was to make a game where you lived in the fall of society as we know it. Post-apocalyptic society is one of the most overdone tropes in video games, but there are far fewer games that play out the apocalypse itself, rather than the aftermath. But somehow it doesn't feel right for my game. Not to mention, we live in pretty uncertain times right now and a nation/society collapsing really isn't too distant of a fantasy. So after being rather frustrated with it for the better portion of a couple months, I think I'm going to toss it out.

I've also been playing Arknights, tower defence gacha game. It's pretty fun. And yesterday I went back to muck around in Guild Wars 2 for a bit as well. I just have to ensure I don't get too addicted - I'm one of those weirdoes who loved Guild Wars 2 and I remember being heavily addicted back in like 2015 or so. I quit playing by simply reminding myself how toxic the PvP community was, and from the insults that I've seen hurled since yesterday, it's pretty clear it still is today.