Okkkay, so. It's again time for me to go in to the corner of shame.
I promised the 1.3 update to you last month. And it's still not here. And that's not enough, but I'm actually cutting on the cool new features that were supposed to come in 1.3
I'm feeling such a douche doing this.
Anyhow, I felt like I would like to explain the situation to you a bit more (if you wan't to get news on how's the 1.3 coming along, you can stop reading now) and tell you guys a bit more of me, REllU, the guy behind this one-man-show.
Many have asked me, why in the Gods name am I doing this? Why am I making games?
For a long time, I couldn't answer this even myself. But now I can.
It is not the money. it is not the fame, or the popularity. The thing that keeps me motivated after all these years, after all of the countless hours I've spent writing several thousands and thousands of lines of code, is you.
My motivation for making games, are the players. The comments you're writing keep me going. The reviews I get, the feedback I get. This all keeps me going.
Well boohoo, why are you telling this to us?
Yeah, well. Because with every single massive update that I have made, I've faced the same damn problem, every. single. time.
Lack of motivation.
You know, when I made those weekly updates, I got feedback right away. People told me how the update sucked, or how they loved some parts of it. This way I knew what I was doing right, and what I had to improve.
With these bigger updates, I'm basically working 4-14 hours per day, sitting in front of my PC, getting blind to my own work, and not getting any kind of feedback about how am I doing. And this keeps going for several months.
I know this is NOT how everyone's mind works, but this is how I work. I just hope that now that you know a bit more about me, you would understand what's going on inside my head, and why these big updates usually take so much time in general (from me anyways)
Ps. sorry for the ugly-ass-face of mine in the pic. I just felt it would be appropriate to also show you what kind of a "man" I am in person.
So. Yeah. Once again, I managed to write a half-bible-worth-of-text.