The Weekly* Whatever 2023/07/02

Summer Sale Edition

Nothing like another social media website crisis to remind me that I have a weekly* newsletter to write.

It’s been roughly two months since the launch of my video game software Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines, available at all local Steam storefronts near you. It’s on sale for the big Steam Summer Sale event, for slightly cheaper than usual!

If you’re reading this, though, you’ve probably already played the game by this point. Right? Well, if not, here’s a link to the game… again…

So, what’s happened since the last update?

The Japanese localization was completed, which took a lot of time and effort on the part of the awesome JP localization team, and also me. I was hoping to be done by the Steam Visual Novel Fest in August, but we finished at super speed and made it in time for the Summer Sale. Which worked out great for marketing purposes.

And I spent a lot of time localizing all these game assets.

Safari no Taiga-chan! Gao!

Scary door

…and so on.

The reception for the Japanese speaking audience seems really good so far! I’m glad our hard work is paying off. How did the gaming press even find the game? And people seem to like the game in general…

Thank you ;-;

As for revenue that I can use to buy food and pay for rent and bills and stuff, well, if this continues I think I’ll be able to afford to buy enough time to at least make another game. So that’s what I’ll be doing. I understand that it’s not easy to get any kind of success with a first game, so I really thank you for all your support because I know I couldn’t have done it without you.

Other than that, I wasn’t able to get a lot of other stuff done due to a lot of family obligations I’ve been busy with. I’ll soon start working on the next Endless Monday game thing, though. I’m spending some of my free time brainstorming and will probably be able to find time to make some prototypes in the coming weeks. Hopefully I’ll have something locked down for actual development soon. Of course, you’ll hear it here first (or on Twitter, if it’s still around then)

Also… Thank you for subscribing to the newsletter. I’ve been super busy lately with “real life” but I’ll probably be getting back into the swing of things soon, and should have more interesting things to share in coming updates. Or not. I still don’t know what the general format of this newsletter is gonna be. Maybe the next one will have more zine-y stuff in it. Well… we’ll figure it out. Together. As they say.

Okay, see you next time!