First of all, it's very humbling to see we still have so many of you here with us. I called everyone who was willing to stick around a little longer saints in my last November art update, but I really was not expecting this many of you here. After thinking for more than ten minutes about how to convey my feelings and still failing, I'll just say thank you very much.
I'm very happy we still have this much goodwill left after what has been an extremely frustrating ride of postponements. For all of you this was and still is a rocky ride. For us no less so.
I can't be truly happy unless we're... let's say six months into the future. With a more or less normal release schedule again and all of this far in the past. That's when I'll really be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Till then it'll be a balance of trying to make up for it and not make the past mistakes of going on until the wheels fall of.
I mean, the shattered ankle thing is just a horrible dumb accident which happened to occur at the worst possible time. The timing of that is almost a work of art in itself. However, if we had taken that vacation a lot earlier the broken ankle thing wouldn't even have happened... Probably... Maybe something worse would've happened instead. (Where the hell am I going with this...?) The future is unknown but we'll do our best to make better choices with a higher chance of sustainable success? Something like that.
Anyway the coder... I'll call him Rob today, Rob already is or should almost be home again. He was staying over at his parents place to "get his legs under him"... *badum tsssh* and have another doctor's checkup.
I'd certainly like to be at "voice distance" from people who love and can help me when severely limited in my movements. It's nice when other people can drive you places and get groceries among other things. Apparently there's a lot of stuff which becomes a hurdle when putting pressure on your ankle is still mostly a nono and then there's all the other side effects.
I've never broken a bone in my life and I prefer keeping most of my ignorant bliss when it comes to the problems that brings with it. Just spraining my ankle once was bothersome enough already. It happened when my dog had escaped and I was running after it in the dark over uneven terrain... The "good" thing about it was, she came back to see why I was making such weird noises all of a sudden while lying on the ground.
Anyway, Rob has been doing whatever he could during the time with his folks, but now that he's back home he should be able to devote some more serious time to whip this Christmas build into shape. Since it's December I think I can call it that now. I don't know when it will actually be done as in a date, (except for and I quote Rob "absolutely this month") but we've at least got a lot better circumstances going for us again. Not having your parents around helps when creating smut!
This month's build, although I'm calling it a Christmas build, has nothing to do with Christmas and yet somehow it does feel slightly like a build meant for Christmas. You'll understand when you'll get to play it. Or maybe you already have an inkling of what I mean. Some of you guys are pretty damn sharp.
As for me, I need a break from FET. I've been working on it by myself in "darkness" for too long without much (or any sort of) feedback from Rob and it's gotten me to a point where I want to jump out of my skin. November has had a bit more impact on me than I realized at first. So I'm not doing any sort of work on FET until Rob has finished the build.
Problem is I can't really sit still either so I'm choosing to do something different, some work on a game which we might or might not make in the future. Nice and vague of me right?!
I'm not entirely certain myself, but I want to prevent myself from burning out on Avatar stuff and become the limiting factor once the coder is 100% up to speed again. That'd be way too shitty. So I need to do something which isn't avatar related but still makes me not feel guilty for not working on FET in some way.
I have some ideas, but if you have one too, like a cartoon you'd like to see MITYfied eventually, just mention it in the comments and perhaps upvote anyone else's idea you see and like.
Now I want to stress it might be ages before you'll ever see the result (if any at all), but it'll be nice to get a feeling of what you guys consider interesting. I mean, the avatar universe has always been my number 1 (and second and third etc) thing I wanted to smuttify and while I do I have some other cartoons I enjoy, nothing at the level of avatar so it'd be nice to see what most of you guys are into.
And that's already it again for now. Thanks again for being a bunch of madlads and sticking with us a bit longer. We hope to make it worth your while in the end.
