John Zeitler

This year has, to be polite about it, not been very good in terms of projects. I haven’t completed very many games, I’ve done little in the way of writing, and my game development has all but stalled out completely. Still, I have to take into account the things that I have done, as well as the stuff I’ve done in years past being, in all honesty, extraordinary.

Even taking that into account, I feel like I’ve wasted the better part of the year. I can’t say on what, because I don’t know. Nothing has proceeded, nothing has made it past even the most rudimentary stages. All of the work I feel most confident about is prep work for my big end-of-year rush of writing and other stuff– but, it should be stressed that what has been done is vitally important, and I feel like I’m well prepared for the November to come. And yet November is still a month off.

What has always been my tradition for the cooling days in October has been a gaming rush, to complete one game from start to finish in those thirty days. I’ve done it two years running, with a Pokemon and a Zelda game, accordingly. With my last bout of laziness sucking up my time and ambition, though, I decided to call it off for this year so I could focus on game development and projects. Now, I still might be able to do some development in the coming month, but I still need to find an artist (the last contact I had kinda fell through).

I’d love to be able to do development this year, but the wind was perfect today… Something in the wind this time of year makes me want to curl up with a good game and play it through. It never fails, really. Once the temperatures drop, so do my defenses and excuses.

I suppose I can wait, then, to do game work…. I suppose, really, that I have to.