2015: The Year We Make Busywork (Patreon)

So, wow, 2015, huh? I don't know about you, but for me, it was a mixed bag. It involved some of the highest workloads I've ever been involved in and I lost my job due to deteriorating health, but at the same time, my freelance gig got me a gig consulting on game design. It's not regular, but, hey, it's better than a $7.25 job with people who don't respect my health.

This past semester has been insane! I'm almost done with school, and I took some classes I thought would be easy. I ended up reading roughly 700 pages a week and writing 10-15 different reports every week on the content I was reading. Talk about an insane workload!

This next semester, my last semester, six years after I should have graduated (good job, stupid health stuff), is going to be significantly different. I've got two regular classes with teachers I know and one online course that starts in May. In other words, I've got plenty of time.

A lot of that time will be devoted to Game One, the game I'm working on with some friends. It's about to enter production (by the way, if anyone knows any animators, I really need an animator), but my intent is to start getting one piece a week published on Stomp. I might not be able to live up to that, especially if consulting gigs and freelance writing stuff gets in the way, but I'll do my best. I think you guys deserve more value for your super kind support, and it's gonna be a lot easier now that I'm not writing 10-15 things every single week for school. 

I've also been chatting with some people about making videos, because I'm warming up for that. I'm planning to make my first one about realism and video game logic!

I'm currently working my way through Until Dawn--I have a lot to say about that game--and I'm hoping to finish off Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and God of War: Ascension by the end of the year. They're the two games I've got closest to completion. I may also try for The Beginner's Guide if I've got time. It sounds short.

What can you expect from me beyond that?

Next article: "The Games I'm Going To Play in 2016." I know, I know, it's a bland title, and I'll try to think of something better. You know those silly "games we're super anticipating even though we know nothing about them" articles? I wanted to write something like that, except actually useful. The plan is to talk about the games I've got lined up for 2016, even if they're not actually from 2016, like Dark Souls and the original Doom.

The article after that, first week of January: "The Games of 2015." I only got to around 25 games during 2015, and this will be my list of those games and how I felt about them. It's kinda a GOTY list, but not exactly.

Furthermore, I'll be republishing some old stuff from The Gonzologist and my old TAY blog, just to get it all in one place, and I'll be publishing some stuff from other writers that have been submitted to me! 

2016 is gonna be a scary year for me. My lease is up, and I have no idea where I'll be moving to or what I'm going to do. I'm looking for work. I'm hoping that Game One is in a state where we can get funding by the time I have to move, and I can use that funding to keep a roof over my head. Or maybe I get a regular job somewhere, or, hey, maybe this Patreon will grow enough that I won't have to worry about that ! Whatever the case is, I'm definitely gonna give you guys my best in the first half of 2016 and hope it makes up for such a busy 2015.