Thank you, I’m going to try :3 I promised myself I would take more breaks and try harder not to push myself so much last year, but I kind of failed at that xD I think I have a problem with giving myself permission to relax or slow down, haha. It’s like I can’t do it unless people command me to, or unless I just burn out and have no choice >.<
I’ve also learned my lesson to not start multiple long-term projects at once x3 Well, I thought it would be okay to because when I started out and made the demos for CiQ and DD, I never really thought anyone would play them, so I figured it didn’t matter how long I took to finish things. I never imagined I’d end up with people actually waiting for DD to be finished, haha. Part of me still can’t really believe it x3
But yeah, I feel like I’m actually getting my shit together a bit better this year after telling myself to calm down with game jams, haha. And I feel like once I do actually manage to finish and release CiQ, I’ll be able to focus on DD much better than I could with CiQ just constantly haunting me in the back of my head!
I think I probably will try to scale down DD a little bit from my original plans cos my initial notes have 12 characters, and I feel like that’s just overboard, so I’m going to try and pick which ones to keep and which ones to maybe put to one side x3 Even with ditching some characters though, as you say, it’s still going to be a big project, bigger than Solipsism Reigns and CiQ if everything eventually goes according to plan! And I can still always do a 2nd wave of characters or something in a separate update or a separate game once I’ve finished the first wave I guess. But yeah, it’s a very long-term thing.
Thank you so much for the supportive and encouraging words :3 I feel extremely lucky to have amazing people like yourself here because it helps a lot against the constant fight against my own demons to have kind and positive words to fight back with :D
I hope you have a fantastic year yourself with lots of fun and happy times to turn into memories ^-^