August

Work! Fostering a cat for three months! Heatwaves!

Those are my excuses for why Case 1 is still only almost done.

I have no excuse for why I suddenly got an idea for a Twine game a couple of weeks ago and have been working hard to get it ready for IFComp. That's just, you know, deep-seated problems with my brain.

April

Gotta say, 2026 hasn't gone the best so far. Not the worst! But not the best, either.

In addition to just struggling a bit, I also feel like I've lost my confidence? I think I may have something that could be pretty good in my current WIP, but it's probably a bit crap, and I'm not sure I have the strength to make it not crap.

But I want to get back into the groove. I hate not making things. I guess I need to stop worrying about the end result and just start slinging words and code together again.

And get some feedback, which might be what I'm really worrying about.

Let me just tick off these items on my to-do list, and then there will be nowhere left for me to hide. 

2026

Welp, December disappeared into illness, Christmas and other events outside my control.

Looking back at 2025, I guess I did manage to make both Philateloids and Ancient Treasure, Secret Spider, which isn't nothing! But it'd be nice to feel that I've reached a milestone with Vasily Verchek's Not Dead as well...

I want to try and get better at achieving things in 2026, but let's see how that goes... 

November

The obvious thing I did this month was make a game!

You can play it here, and you can see the development process play out in this forum thread.

October

Not the most productive month, but not the worst, either. I've been filling in optional dialogue responses. In theory these are infinite, as characters will respond to whatever you type in, but in practice I've come up with some likely topics and, of those, I've written about half the responses across all the characters. Progress!

But next month I'll be taking part in this, which probably won't be the best for my productivity on this project!

September

September 1998: Raccoon City is devastated by the T-virus. 27 years later, I gave myself the month off to replay the Resident Evil 2 remake. After a couple of more casual playthroughs, I sat down with my notebook to strategise and improve my standard difficulty rankings.

A nice little holiday! Now it's back to working on my project... Perhaps I should finally take a crack at that hint system?

 

 

August

Another bad month... I've ticked some more items off the to-do list, but also spent time on other things (such as signing up to a potential new IF competition based on the TV show Iron Chef) while generally not feeling up to much!

With IFComp imminent (and affecting the pool of possible testers), I'm now targeting the last few months of this year for my first test version of case one...