Ha, glad it was useful then. No, I totally agree: you work and learn as you go, and if it's good enough for release, you release. Things never end up releasing if you worry too much about polish. Ha, and glad you liked the griffin suggestion. Maybe some day!
And yeah, getting visual stuff in IS a lot of work, whether you do it yourself or pay for some assets. Just wanted to suggest, as it gives a LOT of bang for the buck: even a little bit here and there does a lot to pull people in and keep them in place. People's minds wander a lot especially these days. I guess you could say it's its own form of hypnosis.
But I'm glad you were able to satisfyingly cap this off, and definitely hope you're able to plunge into another big project once you've built up a head of steam again. It's satisfying to get something this big finally done, isn't it? In a way that's just different than smaller projects.
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it's certainly very different than my usual project size, yes. this project in particular was very nice, being a lot of individual scenes with huge variety so i could avoid feeling stuck working on the same thing, and i had a LOT of passion for this particular work which made it relatively easy to avoid burnout. releasing it truly felt like nothing else i've ever worked on!! i remember having some mental wires crossed that day - i was getting so much positive attention from friends and acquaintances that i kept unconsciously thinking it was my birthday, haha.
more big projects are definitely on my mind, but i think it'd have to be something sort of like this, where there's enough variety for me to not feel totally stuck. maybe a superhero twine (or something?) similar to shallowcreek, i have a few VNs an artist friend and I are both excited about, maybe a few other things. i've been spread pretty thin on hobbies lately and that makes it hard to commit to anything, especially since it's not my job (sadly) but yes, now that i've had a taste for making something i'm truly immensely proud of i am certain to continue chasing this feeling in one way or another
thanks so much again for playing!!