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WU 2020-8P - So little time!!

5 years ago - Edited 5 years ago813 words

You know what time it is? It's time to write another blog post about how I don't have the time to do anything other than work on the game I'm making! Also I probably maybe possibly will start up a Patreon, though I need to do some more research first (and I'm concerned about time)...

I talked about Patreon last week, and since then, a number of people (not a huge number, but more than one) have asked me if I have a Patreon, or expressed interest in supporting me in that way. So there's definitely some interest in the idea. I feel like I need to do some proper research before launching anything though, so then I know what to make as tiers etc.

Annoyingly, though, I have so little time! Recently I've been devoting the vast majority of my time to working on Divine Dreams. I literally don't have time to do anything else, which is why I haven't been great at replying to comments lately. I do try to respond to as many as I can because I enjoy reading them and appreciate that people have put their time into writing them and expressing their thoughts - plus they're really useful to guide development - but I do feel bad that I often just use the heart thing to show that I've read and appreciate them rather than taking the time to type out a response. (I feel like I've said this every week for a while? Did I used to say this back in the Fig Hunter days too? Probably!)

If I were to run a Patreon, I'd have to do even more correspondence stuff, most likely, but doing so would eat up time that could be spent on development. I suppose I end up prioritising development hoping I can more quickly get to the release point.

There'll still be a whole lot of marketing stuff I need to do then, though, and I dread it... At least I end up 'productively procrastinating' by focusing on doing development when I'm avoiding social obligations.

Ideally someone else - someone more suited to it - would handle all the social and promotional aspects while I focus on the creative aspects where I'm competent and confident, but obviously I don't have that luxury. And I suppose it wouldn't be me people would be interacting with then, so it wouldn't be the same?

(I've no idea how I'd cope with having regular conversations with people! It's been a while since the last.)

I wish there were more time in the days, anyway! I've been finding that I only have around 2-3 'free' hours a day, and I feel so exhausted during them that I just end up shutting off and doing essentially nothing. For all my fretting about having too little time, I often end up spending these hours watching such life-improving videos as randomly-suggested 10-minute timelapses of foot rotting, or people asking and testing the big important questions, like "Can I beat Pokemon Emerald with just a Magikarp?" or "Can I beat Pokemon Diamond with just Metronome?". Time well spent! And yet it's interesting that videos like that have hundreds of thousands or even millions of views...

And I still haven't started playing any new games! The biggest reason is this lack of time, though I did look up Octopath Traveler and was put off by the fact that it was £50. I was expecting it to be at most half of that, for some reason. So I decided to "give it some thought", and it's been a week now. I'm still thinking about it.

Also, these personal posts get barely any views, and I get the impression a lot of people don't know they exist or how to access them, so I might shuffle some things around so maybe the main alorafane.com page shows the dev posts in one column and the personal ones in the other, where the Sindrel Song thing is currently. I should probably add some kind of info page for Divine Dreams too. I know it'd only ever be seen by a few eyes - feels like anything that's not on some social media feed will be - but people who've remembered or heard about me and found their way here might get something out of a summary page rather than having to skim through a whole bunch of blog posts. But you know what I need to do that? Time!

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