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Life and Dev Update

Added 2025-09-03 19:57:32 +0000 UTC

A month or so ago, I teased a life/work change that would allow me to dedicate much more time to the development of MindWare and my online presence.

Essentially, I want to (finally) finish my education and get a master's degree. Just being enrolled in the master's program would increase my job security ten-fold and allow me to be a lot more daring in my creative pursuits as someone who has to provide for a family.

I spent most of this week doing entrance exams, and things are looking good (I've been told unofficially that I'm accepted, but nothing's in black and white yet).

If I do get accepted, I'll promptly reduce my current workload as a freelancer by around 80% (keeping only the top 20% most profitable/easy clients). The freed-up time would be split between game dev and university, with game dev receiving as much of it as possible.

So, hopefully, it won't be much longer before unpredictable work deadlines are a thing of the past, and I can better maintain the right creative state of mind and actually keep my promises when it comes to content schedules. I'll let you know as soon as I hear from the university (hopefully by the end of this week).

The bad news is that the exams have delayed the release of the next MindWare update by a few days. To compensate, I've taken next week off from client work to focus exclusively on MindWare development. This should allow me to make some solid progress despite everything else that's been going on. You can expect the update to be released on Sunday or Monday.