I hate to announce this, but Abyssal Grail is on hiatus. Its been getting way too complex visually for me to keep it as "my first game," so I'm going to work on something smaller in the meantime. Something meant to mock myself, and my standards for game design.

I suppose that you could call it Project Silly.

Is it depressing or not that I've spent an entire year developing an incredibly short game at this point, and yet have nothing to share for its first anniversary in development?

I've now hit my 25th anniversary on Being Alive today.

I already have plans for 3 drawings for October, but I wanted to ask my audience which of my characters would be good for a potential fourth drawing.

So, open poll: Which characters would you like to see drawn for Halloween? (not including Kabo or Abyssal Grail characters)

It's not a big secret that my art production has been incredibly slow for the past few months, so I figured that I would explain why things have been behind. Beyond just continuing to chip away at Abyssal Grail, there have been some real life factors behind my low production rate.

My job tends to put parts of the factory on overtime, resulting in 10 hour days and working Saturdays, if that area is behind on producing units. We've been steadily chipping away at that, but we've also been on overtime for the past 2 and a half months. And, while that wouldn't normally stop me, I just got sick on Friday and have been feeling like utter shit even on my days off. Thankfully my car is fixed, so I'm not relying on others for transportation, but things are still very much in a "bad" situation.

I'm going to keep trying to work on things, but I probably won't get anything publicly posted throughout August unless I make something with that express purpose.

So, for a brief explanation of what happened, on March 7th me and my roommate were spontaneously forced out of our apartment for 2 days because the neighbor above us decided that messing around with the sprinkler system was a good idea. Both our ceiling and our floor are still badly water damaged, the apartment constantly reeks, and part of the walls are destroyed, but we're alive, and thankfully nothing we personally own was destroyed besides some food left out from dinner.

I'm still trying to get back into the mood for drawing, and I do have something planned for later today as just a quick piece, but since I was already suffering from a depression-induced hiatus I'm still not fully confident in drawing "serious" pieces. Just note that I do have stuff planned, including stuff of Diddsy and Scarvisha, but for now I'm going to just take it slow.

I'm going on hiatus for a while, to let my right arm heal.

I work in a factory as an assembler, and have been working 9 hours a day for the past week. However, because of how much physical stress I need to put into building the units, I wound up straining my right arm after I fell on the sidewalk due to how icy it is outside. So, I'm probably not going to be drawing during this weekend.