And that's June. (Patreon)

Wow. Thank you. I'll never really be able to put into words how grateful I am for each and every one of you. There's this moment of tension I get before I log in, wondering if I'll be able to pay my bills this month, and every month, I log in to find that you guys have saved my bacon again.

I will never be able to express my gratitude in words.

But, uh, I did write three articles this month, so there's that. Pretty close to my "once a week" schedule, I think. I was actually working on a fourth, but I realized that maybe "11 PM on a Friday" is a bad time to publish it. I'm thinking maybe Tuesday next week would be better?

I've started doing this new thing, a kind of "indie game bundle deathmatch," as it were. What I do is I installed a bunch of games from back when I had money and bought all the $3 bundles that I could. Some of the games were amazing. Some were not. It was fun--and I've got a collector's compulsion--but most of the games were, even at the $3 most of the bundles went for, not that great.

So what I do is I go through a list of games, I write my thoughts on them, however long those thoughts might be, and in the end, I determine whether or not they stay on the backlog. Do I REALLY need this Unity Asset Store Flip Platformer? Probably not. Sometimes, however, I've found some amazing gems, like Epistory: Typing Chronicles. What a beautiful gem that one is.

Anyways, I've also started streaming more: I know a bunch of you have been watching my Resident Evil 4 streams lately, and I'm hoping you're finding it entertaining. If you guys want me to keep streaming, please let me know!

I'm not gonna lie, I've been stressed to heck and back recently. Freelance work hasn't been great lately. Just not much of it. People are busy, don't have much time for me, don't get back to me, I don't know. I want to leave the freelance life behind and get something steady, I really do. If the Patreon was like $500 more, I'd be breathing a little more comfortably than I am now.

Worse still, I was unable to find a place to live while apartment hunting. I was going to go homeless at the end of July. This was a great source of stress for me, but, hey, for the time being, I'm moving in with my parents. It's not a great situation--they're not wild about me working on video games.

Oh yeah.

One other thing.

My team and I just pitched our game to a publisher. We know it's amazing, we think we're asking a great price for it, we know we can make a blockbuster here. Whether the publisher thinks so, well, that's up to them. That's been a pretty big source of stress lately as well. But, hey, we did it, and I feel great.

Anyways: I'm alive because of you. I love you all. I am writing more. Most of my major stressors have been dealt with, maybe not as satisfactorily as I would've liked, but they've been dealt with nontheless. I'm looking for work now.

So, to summarize: not going homeless, pitched a game to a publisher (no idea what the result will be!), streaming more often, published three articles this month with a fourth to follow soon, because heck yeah, my major stressors are dealt with!