Once again, I push writing this post off until the last minute. I have several ideas percolating for good, high-quality, detailed posts, but then I only write part of them and am unhappy with them and so nothing more is done. I need to just settle down.
Good news, though: I'm coming out of a depressive episode. I am still super depressed, but no longer so depressed I am nonfunctional. I am definitely functional! I even published a short game I made in Twine, a sort of interactive poem. I wrote in a fever dream, it feels like. And interestingly enough, I actually used a couple of features I haven't before, despite how short and simple it is.
Whalefall isn't my most accessible game, and I'll probably update it eventually, but it's functional (on computer and mobile) and I enjoy it. It is not a safe for work game. There's nothing overly explicit, but there are some erotic elements on one specific path and some violence and gore peppered throughout. Just the nature of the beast, I suppose.
I also made an rss feed for this blog! You can download it here. I followed the basic guide of... RSS Guide right here on Neocities. I... do not know if I did it correctly. Someone with an rss feed will have to tell me!
I also need to put Whalefall on the page with the other things I've written/created, but that should be a quick thing.
The biggest thing, I think, is that I've started an absolutely MASSIVE worldbuilding/speculative biology project. I'm going to make it extremely science-based with only a hint of the fantastic; something that is very grounded and feels like "wow, that could happen in THIS universe with all the laws and rules we know of science!" It's... well. I am currently filled with anxiety about it, poking and prodding very slowly.
The pages are on this website, but it's currently not linked anywhere. You can find it if you try :P But yeah, I probably won't link anything until I have a bit more. I really love speculative biology, although as I put it to my friends... "My love for worldbuilding and speculative biology will hopefully overcome my hate for worldbuilding and speculative biology." It's definitely a mixed bag.
Anyway, I'm starting 2024 off with some optimism and a few projects going. I'd say that's pretty successful all-in-all for me. Happy New Year, everyone, and may your path go smoothly. And may all these world events fucking chill and we start to live in uninteresting times.