{"id":3359,"date":"2019-01-04T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T08:01:14","slug":"happy-new-year-and-2019-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-and-2019-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year and 2019 Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/volleyballheaven-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/volleyballheaven-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/volleyballheaven-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/volleyballheaven-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/volleyballheaven.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy New Year! Like every year I&#8217;m going to set myself some goals. Taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/2018-goals\/\">look back at last year&#8217;s goals<\/a>, I still have to finish Volleyball Heaven and Planet Stronghold 2, even if for this last one it was obvious I wouldn&#8217;t make in time last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think it&#8217;s safe to say that unless I get hit by a bus or something, both games should be finished this year. Of course I&#8217;m also going to finish Corona Borealis since we&#8217;re at very good point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m particularly curious to see how people will react to Corona Borealis in particular, since it&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;SMALL GAME&#8221; (albeit very polished!) for real this time. It will be shorter than my other games and will be priced accordingly (I haven&#8217;t made my mind yet about the price but it won&#8217;t be over $9.99 for sure).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beside those 3 games, I <em>might<\/em> have some surprises, but even if I have some projects going on &#8220;in secret&#8221; (except for my Patreon supporters) my main goal in the next years will be to finish all the games I started, in particular Loren 2 and Undead Lily since are the oldest games I&#8217;ve announced that I still have to finish. I should also really be getting Summer In Trigue done though, luckily that&#8217;s not a RPG so I&#8217;m not involved directly into it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every year I keep saying that I would also do some &#8220;experimental games&#8221;, but I never find the time. I have an idea about a card\/sim game that I think could be interesting, in this case it would have a really minor story since the focus would be mostly on the gameplay. I need to find the time to code it though. A good moment could be when I finish Planet Stronghold 2, since I&#8217;d need a break before jumping into coding Loren 2 straight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway we&#8217;ll see. Honestly I can&#8217;t wait to have both Loren 2 and Undead Lily finished, because I think it&#8217;s really bad, both for developers and also players, to have games in the works since so much time. It&#8217;s a mistake I&#8217;ll never repeat again in future, alongside to never make sequels (in particular keeping the same protagonists).<\/p>\n<p>In summary I think a good release schedule could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>first quarter 2019: finish Corona Borealis<\/li>\n<li>second quarter 2019: finish Volleyball Heaven<\/li>\n<li>before end of 2019: finish Planet Stronghold 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, like happened back in 2018 with Cursed Lands, I realized that if I can work uninterrupted on a game myself alone, I can make progress much faster, and the story and gameplay are much better integrated (obviously since I write as I code and viceversa). So PS2 estimate release might change greatly depending on various factors. It would be nice to have it in beta before the Summer!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like every year, when this is about to end, will be fun to go back and see how things went vs how I planned it. There are going to be some surprises for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! Like every year I&#8217;m going to set myself some goals. Taking a look back at last year&#8217;s goals, I still have to finish Volleyball Heaven and Planet Stronghold 2, even if for this last one it was obvious I wouldn&#8217;t make in time last year. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}