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Game Development life has been interesting, especially in the last 4 years. (“Interesting” doing a lot of work in that sentence!) >_<

Six years ago I was fortunate enough to join a very small Indie Game Development team, Pizza Club Games. They had been founded around 18 months prior to my joining them and were working on mobile titles for a very supportive publisher.

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Life was good! I learned an incredible amount about unity, programming, remote work, communication. It was the best environment to learn how to become a Unity Developer and I regret nothing.

Fast forward a few years, the supportive publisher basically goes out of business. The leaders scramble to find alternative options in the midst of one of the largest layoff periods in the games industry ever. They managed to get oh so very close, but sadly corporate garbage being what it is, a new director came in and shut everything down. Not a new story in corporate land.

There was a little bit of funding left over, so a few of us stuck around and worked on a PC game that would hopefully land us a publisher and give us a tiny bit of runway. But we always knew it was a long shot. A Hail Mary!

Sadly, it didn’t pan out. Our demo didn’t light the world on fire. The be fair, it was very rough. I honestly thought of it more as a vertical slice, and as such I feel like we did very well considering the time and budget constraints.

Pizza Club Games is now finally riding off into the sunset.

I shall miss you very much, but I must now find my next adventure.

<3

Here is a link to the final steam post.

Changes…

No one likes change and yet it is the one thing we cannot avoid!

Or was it – with great change comes great responsibility? I can never keep my maxims straight!

Whatever the case, change has wormed its way back into my life. This, of course, makes me wonder if the time has finally come to write on this blog! The question always remains; can I maintain any sort of momentum.

So far the data suggests, no. Two posts over a year ago. KWALITY!

…

Maybe I can write a bit about my game developer life.

It’s a thought anyway.

<3

The Sisters of Fermentation

Returning to blogging wasn’t quite a me idea. The inspiration really came from my wonderfully talented friend, Pickled Okra, who decided that social media was a butt hole and wanted to divest from that entire situation. But there is value in communicating and connecting with people online, which is missed when no longer on social media.

Since we are bringing it back to old school blogging style, we had to go with a fancy Web ring of course! Thus The Sisterhood of Fermentation was born.

Honestly, I’m just happy to be here!

<3

Time to blog again!

The enshitification of the internets has taken me back to my roots, blogging. The place where I scream into the void all alone.

Since I find void screaming cathartic, I shall continue to do so, here, in my own voidspace of the internet.