Hello! It’s been a minute. Some big things happened since I last wrote:

I graduated! Now I officially make video games, yay! This is a huge weight off my shoulders, and I’ve been taking some time to myself after dealing with final projects. 

I have a job lined up! It’s part time with a small business that I like quite a bit. I’ll be starting soon, but I expect I’ll be able to balance working on LIFELIKE quite nicely with it. 

Where have I been? Burn out recovery, still. I finally bit the bullet and made myself take a decent amount of time off for my own sanity. I’ve been getting back into work slowly and wanted to post this to let you all know that I’m not dead and am still developing. I don’t want to be one of those indies that disappears. 

So what’s happened since we last talked?

• LIFELIKE will be appearing in the 2022 MOTHER Direct! It’s an honor to be featured once again, and I think this is one of the best trailers I’ve made. Tune in on June 12th at 3PM EST! 
• I remade the mntsstudio website! The content is mostly the same, but it works a lot better and costs me a lot less. 
• I’ve been chipping away at flavor text implementation and bug fixes. It’s about 85% there! I also fixed a text bug today that’s been haunting me for a few months. If the game has crashed on you while checking the rightmost plant in the kitchen with Walter, this is what I finally figured out. It’ll be patched on Track 2’s release.

My to-do’s are the same as last time, finishing flavor text and starting work on art! See you in two weeks!