I decided write a rambly blog style update on what's going on in our life, so if you are interested in that, here it goes:
So, we, i.e. Kim, Barbara and the cats, are finally moving our studio, aka our home, to one of our dream locations!
Bye bye Kraków, we're going to live in a super cute village near the mountains.
Even though we are well prepared there's still a lot of moving work to do, so we can start up full steam in a few weeks. There's some bug solving to do, that will have to be delayed.
And...
To be honest, it wasn't always easy to work on our games dealing with severe cat illness.
We had our first cat, Miss Kitty, she got diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 15 years old and very healthy troughout her life, her blood test results were excellent, she still had all her teeth and those were also all healthy. Two weeks later from that last check up... I felt a little bump on her belly. Next day we brought her in, the vets were also very surprised as they had seen her 2 weeks before and she was doing so well for a 15 year old. We decided, as it was very fast diagnosed, we were going to treat her cancer immediately. She had a mastectomy straight away which she tolerated very well, as you can see, in this photo she is 3 days post surgery. What a beautiful luxurious void!
But only a month later I felt another bump in the exact spot where she got her first one, the cancer came back and with a huge vengeance. Even though the first histopathology result showed they removed all the cancer and it was in a super early stage, even though she had the mastectomy... There was nothing the vets could do, as her X ray showed she had multiple huge metastases everywhere. I will forever be grateful that they agreed to have her put to sleep at our place. In her home.
I was crushed as I knew this cat from when she was a tiny bottlebaby, fitting on the palm of my hand... Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose.
After some months passed, our second cat Khaleesi (we didn't name her this lol, she was 6 months old when we adopted her and didn't want to listen to anything else, queen) was starting to feel very lonely and we felt ready to add a new member to our family.
So on november 10th, we brought home a sweet 11 year old boy cat, who we renamed Gilgamesh. (In the shelter he was calles Gargamel, mean!) He did 8 months of hard time in the shelter, was always overlooked because of his looks and age, he had lost his eyesight in one eye and has scars on his ears from being bullied when he was homeless. Feral cats can be savage! But he got very lucky as he didn't contract FIV of FeLV. His eye needs to be removed though because it could develop cancer or glaucoma soon.
He is just the sweetest baby angel descended from heaven and we don't deserve his goodness. He has absolutely 0 agression or cheekiness in him, he is a perma kitten in character. An 11 year old babycat!
Somewhere before Christmas he got extremely unwell, after a full week of bringing him in every day to the vets (multiple clinics), sometimes even being admitted for a day, he got his diagnosis of *** (privacy people!). Treatment was awfull because he needed multiple shots daily and one of these shots was acid based so it hurt him a lot... But 5 months later we could stop his treatment and he's doing really well now, hopefully he won't relapse but this is only a small possibility. And he's now been a months without meds so chances on relapse go significantly down.
It took a while to get him off the meds because another sneaky little disease popped up that caused his blood test results to be bad. After being diagnosed with PLE as well and correcting his diet he is now finally almost healthy. I hope he can live his best life with us now, he deserves all the love and care in the world. I couldn't save my dear Miss Kitty but I saved my Gilgamesh.
If you're still reading, thank you and I hope we can start working on the bugs soon.
Also, we have not one but 3 games in prototype right now, we'll see what we will anounce next.
When the move is over, Gilgamesh doen't relapse and I don't feel all over the place from cat health anxiety, working scatterbrained on multiple prototypes a day, I can take everything one day at a time.
I hope everyone and their beloved pets are healthy and I wish you a happy summer!
Barbara from SPS
But with all those eggs comes a lot of responsibility, do you have what it takes to raise all ten? Or would you rather keep 2 evolving bingbongs at one time? You choose!
