Note: Cards with higher votes aren't guaranteed to be added first. It's just a way for me to see what people are interested in.

Anyway, thank you all a lot! See you soon! 💜

Those should all still happen eventually, with a lot of smaller things squeezed between them. Once I have recovered a bit more, both my morale and the quality of my work should greatly increase! Get ready for more frequent updates and lots of funny creatures!

- Finishing the base of the fishing system
- Finshing the plant editor mechanics
- Recreating the winning plants from the contest
- Creating the second space stage prototype
- Holding a new contest

I haven't fully figured out a new work schedule yet and still have to move a lot of stuff over. The things that I had originally planned for the rest of the year were:

Keep in mind that this is purely to keep me and the studio afloat, and not some kind of product subscription. All releases of Elysian Eclipse and other projects that I post on Ko-fi / Patreon will always become completely free for everyone after some time.

This also means, I am more than ever reliant on your donations. ko-fi.com/wauzmons/tiers

Yes, I'll have a lot less disposable income and need to be more careful, but it's totally worth it. I am already feeling a little better and there are even (picture unrelated) deer here!

I have saved up a decent amount of money from my job and plan to now live off those savings combined with the donations I get from the community.

So, I have quit my job and moved away from the city and have way more nature around me now. I can now fully focus on what I love. Making video games. Spending time with my (picture related) pets. And just, idk, existing without being pressured to constantly generate profit for other people.

By keeping this up, I'm slowly destroying myself. I'm sleep deprived. I have mood swings. My skin is itching. I just can't take it anymore. But my life won't change from ranting on the internet.

And then I spend the rest of the night playing video games, because I don't have any energy left. Very fun, yay.

I'm pretty much overworking myself by working two jobs, 60+ hours per week, while a lot of the money goes to malicious actors. And as if that wasn't worse enough, I'm living in an ugly city, just so I can get to work easier. (Why do I even have to go anywhere? All my work is digital?)

I do not want to use your app. I do not want to talk to your ChatGeePeePoo. What the fuck is even happening anymore?!

Have you noticed how almost all the money in the industry is being funneled to Microsoft, Google, Amazon and other giga corparations, whose only purpose is to ruin the internet and our planet?

While my workplace itself is pretty decent, the industry seems to keep getting worse. It's a complete shit show. For more informarion, please contact Schmillbert, our new AI assistant who can't answer your questions, but is a Nazi for some reason.

However, I need to somehow pay for food, shelter, and well, the entire development costs of the game. Who would have guessed. So on top of the game development, I'm also working another job in the tech industry to finance all of that.

I have tried to work 30-40 hours a week on Seven Ducks Studios and Elysian Eclipse for the past few years. I learned a lot and I am very happy with the progress I've made and all the support I have received from the community.