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Adult game indie dev currently working on a roguelike dungeon explorer game where you manage an all female team of knights as they explore a vast underground dungeon that seems wholly intent on corrupting them!
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NRFB Games
Jul 06, 2024 10:00 pm
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Update Beta 2.1 Bugfix Release
A version with the fixes from various bugs in Beta 1 is now available on itch.
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NRFB Games
Jul 01, 2024 11:00 pm
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Update Beta 2 Release
So rather than giving you a "How June Went" post, I thought I would give you a new version of the game. You like those, right? Right.
The change log for this update can be found here.
As was voted on FOREVER ago, this update has content around (what seems to be) everyone's favorite character: the Witch. These are only the starts of a set of different event chains that I have planned. Hopefully they give at least a basic idea of where they're heading. In the next update, I'm planning to continue on with these event chains, as well as going back to the previous Experiments events. As that chain was originally started by the Witch, continuing forward with it will eventually reveal more about the cleverly insane spellcaster herself, as well as what she was up to prior to the Inquisitor's arrival on the scene.
For now though, I can only offer up the beginning, as well as thanks to all the people who have continued to be supportive (not just monetarily, but through well-wishes and the like as well) while I've been struggling with whatever the hell my body/brain has been doing. There will probably still be bugs or things I've forgotten to change/fix over the last several months, but I'm really HOPING that this is the start of me getting back into the swing of things, so thanks for sticking around. Enjoy!
NRFB Games
Jun 01, 2024 11:00 pm
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How May went
Hello, it's been a month and you may have noticed that I still have billing paused. I should probably give an update on how things are and how they went for May
So the way I describe it is that I am, relative to previous months, better. That is not to be confused with better in general though. There are still days where I can barely get anything done. There are still nights where it inexplicably takes forever to fall asleep. I still get tired much faster than it feels like I should when exercising (though that could just be an out of shape thing).
But I'm still relatively better.
I don't need naps anymore, my energy is generally higher, and I feel much less hopeless in general, so things have moved in a positive direction... But I still can't say that I know what's actually wrong.
Basically, the improvement I've been feeling is linked to working with a psychiatrist to change some things up with medications. I don't know that I need to be super specific, but the end result is that it increased my sleep quality, allowing me to feel more rested in the mornings and generally less tired throughout the day.
And that's good, but psychiatric medication is only going to solve problems relating to the brain. If my problems are ONLY brain problems, then that's fine, but if they're not, then I don't have any plan on what to actually to figure them out. All other doctor appointments I've had haven't been able to come up with much of anything, as seemingly the only symptom I can point at for sure is fatigue. By itself, fatigue isn't indicative of anything in particular, so unless more symptoms show up eventually, I'm kinda stuck.
So... Yeah. That's rather frustrating, but I can't deny that some progress toward making me feel better has happened. Similarly, I haven't made enough content to update the game, but I can also say that a good amount of work has been done on a lot of things, and that I've been having some pretty productive days lately.
I think my biggest bottleneck on work (assuming that we're talking about days when I'm not too tired to work) is still the whole writing process. I've had a lot of thought about that and have more or less come around to the idea that I probably need to get someone else who can do some writing for the game. There are a lot of problems with that, but it's probably still a good idea that I should pursue... Except I also have NO IDEA where and how to get that set up on top of the other billion things that I need to/should do which I would already struggle with even if I was at 100%.
But all that aside, as far as the game goes, I've made progress, but it wasn't enough to have an update here at the start of June. Assuming nothing changes too much in the negative direction, I would be rather surprised and rather upset with myself if I DON'T end up with something I can wrap up and ship out BEFORE the end of June, but it's hard to make that promise, so I figured it was once again more correct in a moral sense to have the billing paused. Very much looking forward to getting everything straightened back around so I can give the people what they want, but I'm not QUITE there yet.
Thanks for your continued patience and support and hopefully I'll have something more fun for you sooner rather than later.
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May 01, 2024 12:00 am
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Pausing billing for May
Hey. It's been a bit. I've posted various status updates in various places but I really do owe people something more comprehensive, so I'll do that here now.
Truthfully, I probably should have done this much earlier, but I've been in a cycle of "this next thing will probably reveal what is wrong with me/how to fix it, so I should wait until then so that the update can include the when and how of getting better" and then that next thing not actually doing that. Technically I'm still in that cycle, but I just want the weight of "taking people's money without properly earning it" off of my shoulders even though it's a shitty momentum killer... Not that momentum is/was doing so well after 4 months of no update anyway.
So okay, let's go over health stuff
For much of the latter half of 2023, I was attempting to troubleshoot antidepressant issues such as side effects and fading effectiveness. This WAS having an effect on my output, and is probably part of the reason why the timing of updates was gradually backsliding more and more. I'm reasonably sure I have always been depressed, but there are levels to this sort of thing and it was getting worse. That by itself was/is still manageable, but around December something else happened.
Basically I was just inexplicably hit by endless fatigue. Every day required 3+ naps or attempted naps and even with that the brain fog would never lift. I can't think of any particular event that predicated this. I didn't get sick (physically), and no event of any importance happened around that time, it just hit me out of nowhere and is the big part of why I didn't get the previous update out until Christmas (my god that hurts me to even read).
That fatigue is still happening now every single day. I am barely functional. I am frustrated. I am worried. I am awful to talk to because I'm extremely negative and every conversation feels like I'm demanding the person I'm talking to should be doing something to help me even though both of us know that they can't.
So far, I have been through:
- Several regular primary care doctor appointments
- He's basically run out of ideas
- Psychiatrist appointments for medication adjustments
- Several rounds of blood/diagnostic tests
- Sleep study
- This went TERRIBLY due to anxiety stuff. I got 1.5 hours of sleep with 0% REM.
- No sleep apnea was detected during that time, although that doesn't technically rule it out.
- For what it's worth, I don't snore (much). That also technically doesn't rule it out.
- I can't schedule another sleep study without having another person that can come along, and doing so would also likely take weeks/months while also not guaranteeing that I succeed in sleeping OR that the problem is with my sleep in the first place.
- A home sleep apnea test is not covered by my insurance and would cost $900 so I don't really feel like that's a good gamble to take.
- Rheumatologist
- A blood test showed the presence of antinuclear antibodies. This CAN be indicative of various autoimmune disorders, but can also be present in healthy people.
- I don't have any other symptoms of any of the relevant autoimmune disorders, so no diagnosis can be made here (it's not lupus).
- Therapist
- This is not something that I would expect to actually fix the problem, but it's probably still better to do than not do. Please let it be known that I really am trying here.
- And finally next week I'm going to a Neurologist
- I don't have any particular expectation of anything being found here or not. I don't even know what they would be looking for specifically that wouldn't have been found in other tests, but hey whatever.
- I'm trying not to think about it too much because it's very easy to get pessimistic when you keep trying things and over and over again it solves nothing.
And that's... Basically where I'm at? I guess I've also done various things to try and improve my sleep hygiene/general health as well, but I don't think I need to list all of that stuff out.
I will say that if one more person tells me that I should try exercising I'm going to exercise my fist through their fucking face though (I am doing SOME exercising, for what it's worth).
But uhhh...
I guess as for the game itself
It's still alive. As much as this post and pausing the billing and everything feels like admitting defeat (to me), that isn't really the case (or so I tell myself). I do still get small bits of work done on good days. It just doesn't feel like nearly enough, especially because the most important thing I'm supposed to be working on (writing scenes) is significantly harder to accomplish through exhausted brain fog than bug fixing or other programming bits.
The closest things to positives that I have to say here I guess are:
- I've done significant amounts of planning for how I want to structure the content in the Witch's update
- I've gotten a good number of bug fix/engine improvement things done
So uh, look forward to that hopefully soonish, I guess? I really, REALLY want to get better soon.
Until then, thanks for your patience I suppose. I'm still very much PHYSICALLY present, and will happily talk to people who have questions or whatever when I'm not passed out in bed or attempting to extract answers out of healthcare employees.
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