Week 19 - Too Many .yyps

So my secret work on Another Perspective is largely done for the time being, but NGF is rapidly approaching and I need to get PokeyPoke back to some sort of demo-able state for the end of the month. I think I've said before that I'd agreed to tackle way too much stuff this month, but previously in kind of a foreboding way?

Now it's kinda hitting. So forgive the uh, I guess turbulence is the best way to put it, in my updates and progress.

The Action RPG is not at a standstill though. In even my busiest weeks I'm now trying to make sure that progress *is* made. I've been working on tilesets for the cavern section:

I'd like to say this will all go much faster in June but that's when my house move will start to kick into a higher gear. Still, there will be a few less other work projects on my plate competing for my time.

My ever-in-flux income on Patreon has made it hard for me to ever say no to opportunities. I always want back up plans upon back up plans. (And this thing with Another Perspective has brought in some much needed security for after the house buy completes) I feel like I could do better with this. You guys after all are my primary benefactors in all this and are owed the lions share of my time. The problem is everything else is giving me tight deadlines that push their way to the front.

So in light of that I'm going to try and commit to having finished the Project Files for this series by the end of July. That then gives me the space and reason to push anything else that comes along past this point.

It's still far away I know, and that's not even the tutorials themselves. But this was always going to be a long haul project.

In other news some PokeyPoke tweets have been getting a bit of attention! I'm grinding away at the game for NGF and we're quietly hoping to have a Steam store presence up by then to start bringing in those vital wishlists. There's been a few things in PokeyPoke I could have turned into DevLog pseudo tutorials like the water shader video but I'm trying to use that time on the ARPG instead.

There won't be a stream today! My girlfriend and some family are popping to a lodge... somewhere (look it's been a busy month) for the weekend. I'll be back Monday night. I meant to do more LD44 streams this week but it'll sadly have to wait.

Gonna blast through any questions/messages/etc I have on here now before I head out, but then that's me for the weekend. Hope the rest of you have a good one too! Thanks everyone so much for being here and for supporting what I do.

-S