About the next 3 months
Hey everyone,
after taking your feedback, the past couple of months, but also how I currently feel into account, I've come to the conclusion that working on 2 projects in parallel isn't really working out for me.
Having to do constant mental context-switching between 2 completely different projects is harder than I thought, especially getting my brain back from "GoV mode" into "HHR mode", but also vice versa is challenging every time, and having to manage two sometimes conflicting release schedules doesn't help, either.
That said, GoV is getting relatively close to the content targets I had set for myself anyway, if it didn't become some massive hit (which it didn't).
Because of this,
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I'll double down on GoV for the next 2-3 months, add everything I still absolutely wanted to add (which is still a lot, btw), then call the result version 1.0, and any further updates afterwards will mostly depend on my co-dev xtone (who'll be busy for a while due to IRL work though, so no guarantees when or even if more updates will happen).
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GoV 0.8 is now planned for later this month, GoV 0.9 for August, 1.0 for September.
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I'll put HHR largely on hold during this time.
If you're a subscriber and ONLY here for early access to HHR updates, I honestly recommend dropping a tier or taking a break for now.
There are some other smaller issues and challenges with HHR I need to work out too, I'll announce ahead of time when HHR updates resume.
But if you're also or only here for GoV, you can safely stay subscribed for the next 3 months, you'll actually get more bang for buck than before.
I know a lot of you would probably prefer that I managed to keep the status quo and just somehow increased development speed, or made GoV our main project for good, which I can completely understand.
But some of you were right, the current approach just feels like a guaranteed path to burn-out for me, and I think everyone would agree that would be the bigger evil.
And the issue with making GoV our permanent main project would be that it's honestly a bit unfulfilling to work on, for what little money it makes.
So I hope you can understand these decisions.
And to everyone who likes GoV:
You can really look forward to what you'll get in the next 3 updates, they'll be BIG compared to any updates you got before, and they'll arrive fairly quickly, too.
Stay tuned,
-OCN