Sunday 16 March 2014

So where I'm at with stuff

I'm ludicrously busy at the moment and unfortunately there's unlikely to be much time for working on trap quest for the rest of March and most of April. I hope to soon release another bugfix version for the current release I've made but I'm afraid you may have to wait a while for a release with much new content. Sorry guys!

I'd also like to point out that if you donate and ask a question but don't leave contact details in the accompanying message or email me separately I have no way of contacting you!

EDIT: I have been trying as much as possible to not give out details of my personal life but you guys and gals deserve an explanation.  Over the last summer when I started asking for donations, that was because I needed to fund my final year of university (Computer Science) and was going to have to find full time work otherwise and have little time for coding.  In the end I was able to get by and save some with part time work which gave me more time to work on the game.

In my final year, I've been busy but have still been finding time to work on the game.  Also the continued donations (generally small but they add up, thanks guys!) have prevented me from having to work part time in order to pay the bills during my studies.  There was a drop in productivity for a few weeks around my January exams, but hopefully you'll be pleased to hear they went well.  I now have a month to complete my dissertation which counts towards over 20% of my overall qualification and then a few weeks for final exams, then I'll be done with academia forever.  Assuming everything doesn't go tits up, I've got excellent grades from one of the top universities in the UK, and will in all likelihood walk into a comfy graduate role in the technology industry within a few months, and meanwhile will be living with family.

So yes there are not going to be many updates for a little while now while I secure my future, but after that it's unlikely that I'll ever have "busy periods" quite like this, and also it's highly unlikely that I'll be relying on your donations to live!

Love from Aika