you ever been more tired than you’ve ever been in in your whole life?
I haven’t shipped a video game since 2019, owing to a combination of projects failing, companies dissolving, and me changing jobs to escape toxic circumstances when there seemed like no other recourse.
That means I haven’t had a game on store shelves since then, but more pertinently, I haven’t gone through the motions of getting a game out the door since then. It’s very hard! It requires a huge amount of time, focus, and energy in the best of circumstances.
I’m 42 now (had my birthday on the 10th!) and maybe in the worst physical shape of my life. The amount of energy that doing this part of the job takes is about all I can manage. My family, my friends, and my coworkers can all see the toll it’s taking on me: I don’t have the energy (or the room, frankly) for the extracurricular activities that sustain me.
The end is coming. Soon this phase will be done, and the pressure will let off, and hopefully things will get better for Brendan.
PS: I haven’t been wholly idle. I’ve had a couple of fun excursions, and I’ll backdate a couple of those entries with some photos for folks to see.
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