July 2 Update (Patreon)

I still have a series of memes and comics, but we're interrupted by more TLS fanart! This is another high priestess fantasy from genericname12345, hope everyone enjoys. ^-^

So, as you may have noticed, during April/May/June I managed to release TLS updates every month, just like old times. That "may" isn't purely rhetorical. No one (within my sphere of attention) seemed to care or indeed to notice at all. Negative inputs didn't decrease and people who complain about slow updates just complained about short updates instead, despite the fact that I was putting out more, and more complex, content than at any point in the game's history.

So screw it. I don't think I have the stamina to sprint to the end of TLS anyway, so I'm going to make the decisions that I think are best for my long term career. The primary incentive moving me toward completing TLS has always been my intrinsic desire to do so.

To be clear, I'm not announcing any long term delays here. We just go back to somewhat larger updates, each one trying to check off a major percentage of the remaining roadmap. The next update's checkmarks will be more unified than usual, resolving a massive loose end in a sequence of plot that, while technically optional, you will definitely want to do before the final battle.

I'll just balance things a little more. While I was pushing hard over the previous months, I wasn't courting burnout so much as a weird sort of reverse burnout: I could easily pour energy into creative work, but my mind just couldn't engage with normally low energy activities like watching shows. Not sure what the deal was with that, but it wasn't pleasant and it's probably not good to dwell too long in that state.

What else will I be doing? Some time writing, definitely. I probably won't spend too much time on Don't Save the Princess, but I'll begin delegating work to collaborators to get it moving. Probably not the Crimson Gray side projects mentioned last year, at least not yet. Likely some time planning post-TLS projects.

As I've said all this year, you can look at the roadmap and see how we're counting down toward the conclusion. I need to take care of some other neglected work, but before an unreasonable amount of time there will be another major TLS update.