I think this is a strange way to introduce my newest passion project, but I felt like I needed to get this off my chest, even if no one sees it. Progress with DARKDATA is going well, but not as good as I'd hoped. Less than 20 days now until the deadline I set for myself. By then, DARKDATA is supposed to move on to beta, which just means it'll be coherent enough to start playtesting.

I had a dream this morning. I was trying to search YouTube for DARKDATA. In my dreams, it's a recurring thing that I struggle to write or type words, even though I can read just fine. I couldn't type it in well enough, and even the YouTube search auto correct thing couldn't help me. I was originally searching for more, like "darkdata playthrough" or "darkdata review" or something, but after failing with that I just tried "darkdata", but that didn't work either.

I knew in the dream, that I was dreaming, and whatever I searched wasn't going to be real, but I so desperately wanted to see what it would look like for people to care about my game. I never got to see anything, though, because I couldn't type it in correctly. I watched a few unrelated videos and then the dream ended.

When I woke up, I tried typing it in, in real life. Just because I felt so defeated in the dream. Of course, all that came up were videos about actual dark data. This whole experience has left me feeling... strange. A little melancholy. The more I think about, the more I get a little sad.

I hope people will care.