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Istaran

State of the Author

" ZByte13 wrote:
Redscale's worth waiting for!  Just keep us up to date with what's going on, man.  12 months straight of "Sorry, not this month" is WAAAAY better than 11 months of silence (as some other creators are want to do).  


Hi guys,
 I thought I'd reward this comment with a bit of an explanation of where things are at right now. One reason I don't update on that more often is I feel kind of guilty leaving things in the lurch as much as I have, to say nothing of the fickleness of my muse... I hate coming back just to say 'not this month' again, or anything like that.

1) Real life is super busy. I am up to three children ages 3 and under, which currently means horribly inadequate sleep and caffeine only counters that so much. Writing in general is much harder, and designing and implementing complex things (to say nothing of debugging) is also quite hard. Work is finally winding down again to a reasonable level but it has been quite crazy in recent months.

2) I have one other story currently regularly updating. I don't remember if I ever even linked it from here.
Self Insertion - A Worm fanfic
The story is not a self-insert. Rather it features a protagonist who can enter video games and bring powers, items, and sometimes characters out with him into an otherwise super hero/villain filled world. I'm 4 games / 82k words into it, and committed to a minimum of 1/wk update of about 1k. (Currently keeping pace at 3 such updates.)

I have linked some other writing I've done here in the past, but everything else is currently on hold or cancelled. As it is, I've bumped the bottom of my backlog on SI a number of times even without updating anything else.

3) I remain committed to updating Redscale's by the end of the year/month. It remains to be seen how much new there will be. I won't be adding any new subsystems from now until the end of the year, but I will work on fleshing out what's already in the Pending version that 'friends' have access to, and sneaking in more content. I hope you all enjoy! I know there's a lot of cool stuff in the list of things I want to do in the future.

In the meantime, thanks for your kind words, watches, and favs.
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Added: 6 years, 3 months ago
 
AubbySylveon
6 years, 3 months ago
Hey, there's no need to worry. You have a life outside of pleasing people with a porn game! A lot of us can appreciate the fact that you are busier than you used to be, which honestly makes the wait even more worth it. You've promised an update, and by God, I wholeheartedly support you.
Ivogad
6 years, 3 months ago
Cool, didn't realise you were into Worm
Istaran
6 years, 3 months ago
A proofreader from a different project recommended it. Honestly, reading it caused a huge hit to my productivity on Redscale and some of my writing projects, simply because I was spending so many hours a day reading. :/

I'm digging a few of the better fanfics around it out there at the moment, but nothing as life-consuming.
Scrimbleshanks
6 years, 3 months ago
Will some of the save problems be fixed in RA..? [:
DragonLord729
6 years, 3 months ago
Looking forward to it! Happy Non Denominational Holidays Y'all!
ZByte13
6 years, 3 months ago
:D Super glad to hear from you, regardless!  And I totally get that "guilty" feeling of coming back and saying that a project isn't done yet.  I'm deep into that myself, and I'm having a hard time digging my way out of it, to the point where I feel like I have to have something ready to just throw down on the table so that the wait feels justified.  

Of course, this is a fallacy, and I know from experience that people being reassured that their favorite artists are still alive and kicking is more important than a self-imposed justification.  Some people may lose interest after a while, but MORE people will lose interest if there's just no activity whatsoever.  It may also take some of the weight off of your muse.

Just keep on keeping on!  You may feel guilty posting just to say that the updates aren't ready, but the two biggest threats to awesome projects are radio silence and rushing something out the door.  Artists have lives, and anyone who'd be upset by that revelation isn't really worth catering to, especially if you're providing something for free as a passion project.

Speaking of, though, are you interested in getting any help for writing some of the scenes out?  I certainly wouldn't mind throwing some pages at you :)
Istaran
6 years, 3 months ago
I've answered you via PM with a bit of discussion, but to put it out there publicly..

I've had a number of collaborators, as I mention in the credits, and that's mostly been just scene writing. It can be complicated at some times, especially with my personal hangups, as sometimes the scene kind of demands new work to make it fit in right.

For simpler things though...
I'm happy to take scenes/variants to fill in my 'IOUs' throughout the code, or to help flesh out the game more. I can be hard to work with sometimes, as I know I have a backlog somewhere of scenes others have written I haven't worked in yet... (sorry)
If anyone is willing to put up with me, you can PM me to work things out. If you have specific ideas of scenes in mind that really helps, but I can also suggest things that need filling in.
AubbySylveon
5 years, 4 months ago
Well... maybe it's safe to say that this has fallen apart? Unless Istaran suddenly rises up from whatever hole someone shoved him into, I don't see us getting any further updates.
Istaran
5 years, 3 months ago
Sounds safe to me.
I'll let you guys know when I finally hit a point where I'm able to do something creative again I'll be sure to post a link if it doesn't end up live here.
JohnnyDoughboy
5 years, 2 months ago
We'll wait for you bro.
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