Hi everyone.
I receive several messages from you in different social media asking about the new Deck Hunter project and I would like to explain the current situation about it.
Some time ago, as you know, I decided to re-do the Deck Hunter game from scratch and completely alone (in the first version, a couple of friends helped me with excels data, some game designs and marketing & communication) but in this new project, everything must be created from scratch from me (game design, documents, art, programming, etc…)
During this process, lot of things are happening, health issues, job issues, financial issues, familiar stuff, etc… and as you know, Deck Hunter is being done during my free time (nights, weekends, …) Of course, I need to spend some time with my family after lot of hours of work, and I been forced to accept more jobs to do (I help some people with their games but I am more focused in app development for customers and at the same time I am teacher in a centre) With all, as you can imagine, my time to dedicate to the project in this moment is really small and I can advance, but really slowly. Over this, I am feeling frustration because I can`t advance in the way I would like, and that is giving me a burn out syndrome that is really affecting me negatively in my health and in the way how I am working on the game, cause I am trying doing stuff faster as possible in order to people can feel the game is not stopped, but then, I am seeing my decisions are not correctly and I need to drop and re-design again that feature cause is not designed correctly. All for this is really really bad, for me, for you, and for the game, and I think that I must take the game as my passion/hobby (as I did with the first versions of the game in the current Steam version) and not as another pressure project added in my job queue. I don’t know if I am explaining correctly my ideas/feelings.
Of course, the game continues, slowly, but continues, this game is my dream game since years (It´s bigger that I expected for one person in the beginning, I must to recognize it) but of course, it will be completed!
I must apologize with you due the time is taking to me to complete it, but as I said, I need to take the game as something that passionate me, and one thing I am thinking is open a small blog or some place where write my advances/thoughts/feelings about the game (good and bad stuff, success, failures, designs, ideas, etc… ) and where you can help me with ideas, comments, and thoughts about the process.
Again, sorry and best regards to everyone.
L_Draven