The Near Horizon | April 2021

I’m posting this a little early just so there’s no confusion about April Fool’s Day. I don’t know, I get paranoid about that, anything I say on April 1st won’t be taken seriously because of our stupid fucking prank culture.

March was problematic for my mental health. I’m not too sure why, it just was. Nothing really happened, my brain just decided ‘fuck you’ and caused a lot of problems.

Despite that, I managed to finish The Will To Live. It’s done. So that’s cool. I also managed to write a speculative short story for an upcoming sci-fi/horror game called The Callisto Protocol. Given we only have a single trailer right now, I obviously know very little about the game. But I knew enough to apparently get inspired and write a short story meant to feed into the eventual campaign. It’s called There Isn’t A Word For It, it’s about 8,000 words. Check it out.

I know I said I was going back to DOOM after this, but I’ve decided to instead take April off, and maybe May. A few things are coming up in my real life that I need to deal with and real-life stuff tends to derail me more nowadays than in past times. On top of that, I feel like I need some time with less stuff on my plate. And finally, I want to take the opportunity to actually try and get at least something done for my machinima Not Alone 3.

I’ve also decided to just put Dark Places away for now. It’s just a lot of editing and I don’t feel like dealing with it, nor do I think I’m going to feel like dealing with it for awhile. Sorry, honestly I probably shouldn’t have mentioned it.

So that’s basically it. You probably won’t hear from me much for April, maybe even for May. Sorry.