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WU 2020-11P - Corona, Brain, Maybe PS4

5 years ago - Edited 5 years ago688 words

Coronavirus is changing the world! My brain's not as bad as I thought! Maybe I should get a PS4 (again)!

The Coronavirus continues to be a thing! It's strange to see from my bubble how it's forcing others to retreat into theirs. I'm also wondering whether it'll lead to any significant and permanent societal shifts, like an introduction of Universal Basic Income. I've been waiting for that for a while, since I've not made enough money from my games to support myself (yet?). So that'll be interesting to see. Or maybe the villains of the world will use this opportunity to start wars or commit crimes, or the world will just fall into chaos because of human stupidity and fear. Who knows.

I've also been wondering whether or not now's a good time to be focusing on making my silly game. It seems strange to focus on anything other than the global pandemic that's ravaging the globe, when everyone else is being sent home from their 'real' jobs, in some cases permanently. Perhaps the abundance of free time people will have while isolating makes it a good time, though, as they'll be more in search of games to play? Not that I'll be finished for a long while, but still. I can't help but wonder whether what I spend my time doing is actually worthwhile for the world. Not like I can change paths now, though.

Last week, I wrote about some concerns I'd had about my brain tumour symptoms returning. That led to rescheduling my next brain scan for next week, though thankfully those symptoms have subsided now, so I was going to try to change the appointment again. I feel bad about being a bother to medical staff during this hard time, though... I actually ended up getting a call from them about rescheduling anyway, so I didn't have to push through my various mental illnesses to actually make the call. But I said something that made the whole thing really awkward and ended up cringing hard about it for a whole day anyway. Yaaay. I do so love the demons in my head.

Other than all that, I've been playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps these past few days! I'm very impressed! I'll write a post about that when I'm done.

I also just learned that the Final Fantasy VII Remake (or at least the first part of it, since they're splitting it up) will be out very soon... for the PS4, which I don't have. I talked about getting one in a post a while back, but forgot about it, as is often the case with ideas I have. I've been wondering whether to replay the original Final Fantasies since I'm making a game heavily inspired by them, but I'd also really like to play the remake since it's to the original what Divine Dreams is to MARDEK, sort of. So I'd like to see how they handled things. Maybe it'd make sense to play them back-to-back, then. Things take so much time, though, especially huge RPGs like that! Ori and the etc seems short, but even that's taking me days because I spend my time on other things.

I also want to play Kingdom Hearts 3, so that's another reason to get a PS4. Apparently they're around £250-300, and that's not even including the cost of the games. I didn't get Octopath Traveler because it was a fraction of that price... Hmm.

Also, I know I've talked for a while about going out and promoting, but never get around to that. I'm getting to the point with development now where I can almost make a video, or even a short demo, so I think I'll stick with it until I get there so then I actually have something to show off. That's another week off, maybe? Two? Feels weird to think of trying to generate interest in this with the Coronavirus stuff, but it seems content creators in general are just doing their usual stuff...

I hope the terrible pandemic isn't affecting you too terribly, whoever's taken the time to read this!