I’m writing this the night before you read it because I can’t sleep. Yoranto is running The Last of Us Remastered for Awesome Games Done Quick and I’m really excited/anxious to launch this Kickstarter. It’s been almost a year since .dungeon//remastered which means it’s been “almost a year” for a lot of big changes in my life. Anniversaries mean a lot to me, the good and the bad. So I’m thinking about a lot and, yeah, just really ready to see how this campaign goes. I have high hopes. I believe in Songbirds with all my heart. It’s my ideal game at this point in my life. It’s the culmination of all my game-design-years. The progress of my skills encapsulated in a single book. Well, two books. Red and Blue.
The first day of a campaign I like to stay off of the internet. I don’t know if I’ve ever explained why. It’s common knowledge in the crowd-funding world that the first day of a campaign is the most important. People like to post “just funded!” updates and follow the early hours of their projects to see when it funds. I’ve done a good job of avoiding that sort of thing simply because I know it would consume me in a very unhealthy way. I don’t like to obsess over things when I know I can help it, and I know that this, the funding of a thing I care so deeply about and is so deeply linked to the financial well-being, would be an obsession (derogatory). My life is full of my obsession (writing) already and I don’t really know what I would be if I gained another one on top of that. It’s very refreshing to let go. Let the project loose into the world and to stand back and let it do its thing. It’s also very nice to go to sleep, wake up, and check the kickstarter first thing the next morning and see that (hopefully) we funded. It’s just a good feeling. And I like good feelings.
As you’re reading this, I’ll be at my favorite diner here in Columbus. Or, if you’re reading it later in the day, I might be on a small road trip to a pizza bar a friend turned me on to out near Dayton. Or maybe I’ll be playing video games with a new friend. But I won’t be obsessing. Promise.
If you need me, you can reach out on twitter or ping me in the discord server. Though I might not respond until the early morning of Saturday. If there’s some glaring issue that needs addressing, I have people to let me know and even someone who can take care of that, but I don’t foresee that happening. I’ve been working on this campaign for a while and if I’ve missed something at this point then I probably deserve for my routine to be messed up haha.
I hope you had a good week and have a good rest of your day. I don’t have any advertising planned beyond this post, my youtube video, and, like, the tweets that I’ll do. So, like, it’d be super cool if you retweeted my tweet or called up your mom and asked her if she wanted a copy of the book too. I bet you’d have fun gaming with her. Unless she sucks or something. Then maybe ask your friend.
Thanks for your support. I’m tired and going to get some sleep.
Snow