Hello. It's been awhile. Maybe...four and a half years?

Last time I posted, I said Bill's Quest (a simple but long turn based RPG that I worked on with this guy for a couple years) would be coming out soon. Clearly, that wasn't the case. I inexplicably lost the drive to program during most of my freshman year of college (might have had something to do with new found freedom); even when I got my drive back, the game had become too big to handle on my computer and needed my university's computers (not the best thing when I'm a lazy scrub who doesn't want to walk halfway across campus, especially if there's a chance the labs will be occupied by people doing important things). Because I had separated the battle section and overworld into two files, it became fragmented when I tried putting it back together. It would have required a complete overhaul to put it back together.

In a way, I'm kinda glad it didn't make it. The voice acting and dialogue were meh at best (I'm not a good writer), I couldn't introduce some game mechanics with clarity, and the combat needed some balancing that I just couldn't fine tune.

My biggest regret was feeling like I let my animator down. He had put so much time and effort into creating the wonderful and hilarious world, putting up with my nonsense, and just being a darn good sport. And yet I couldn't finish it. As a result, I stopped programming and even thinking of posting on Newgrounds for fear of coming across as an ungrateful jerk. But he emailed me a couple months ago, and assured me that there was no bad blood (plus his email put a smile on my face when I was having a lousy day).

Now that I've found myself at a good place between games (just finished Dying Light, and have lost the major drive to waste my life away in Destiny and Minecraft), I think now is the right time to get back into game design. I'll screw around with basic testing again, and maybe this time I'll finish a major project. If I do make through the testing, I'll post again with what exactly I want to do (and how I plan to torture I mean entertain you wonderful people).

Until next time.

~Pelo