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The H-Dev's Curse
People frequently speak, in various shades of suspicion and superstition, of the H-dev’s curse - the tendency for developers in our space to fall afoul of variously awful and improbable fates. I think the most compelling explanation is that crises sometimes befall all of us; it is only when you have a large project that anyone else notices you’re taken out of commission for a while.
Working as a team provides a healthy buffer against that. The Ravager crew have individually sustained various slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune over the years, and our peers have picked up the slack until normality reigns again. But lady luck is fickle, and there is always a chance that she hits the core team with six unrelated crises in one month. It has not been a kind month.
It would be possible to pull out all the stops, chug all the coffee, and do our damnedest to pretend that nothing has happened – but that kind of crunch would mean making sacrifices on quality, as well as degrading our ability to continue work past the release of Chapter Two. Neither of those are acceptable to me, so instead I’m here doing the thing I never want to do, asking for your patience.
There will be no update this month; there has been plenty of progress on many fronts, but it isn’t ready for primetime just yet. That also means that Chapter Two won’t arrive to meet my original goal of “first half of 2024”, which is on me. As soon as the remaining fires are stamped out and I have a good sense of our new momentum, I’ll get you a revised goal that I can be firmly confident in.
Thank you for all of your support thus far and, I hope, your understanding. I’ll be in the comments if anyone has questions for me.
Alright. So long as it isnt a habit.hope they resolve!
Don't worry about it! Life happens, and given how productive you and the team have been, I doubt people will particularly object. I will say I personally appreciate the level of open comms though.
you are leading a team of humans, and your leadership and earned you a lot of trust in the fans of this game. patience is something we are happy to have for the product you're all producing.
i said it in the discord, i will repeat it here: I wish you and the team all the best for this month, hope you can salvage it to the best possible situation and enjoy the beginning of the summer as soon as it hits each of you individually.
Hope neither you nor the team sweat it on our behalf. I'd rather you all take care of yourselves than crunch like the corpos force their teams to. Best of luck in the recovery for all've y'all!