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This one isn't much of a game update. I haven't made anything concrete but I feel like if I stop posting for a while I'll lose the bit of momentum I've got going on right now and I'll spiral further down. Which is not good. So update time it is.

On the game. You can try it out for yourself. It's not much of a game right now. What happened there? First, I decided to go back to the Theseus premise, so I threw away most of the developments from last update. Then, I tried a bunch of different things: adding other kinds of enemies, new traps, letting you save the sacrifices, but... I don't know. I kept tripping over myself because the project was full of shitty redundant uncommented code and nonsense numbers and I couldn't add something without breaking everything and then I hit the pico-8 size limit and I got annoyed and I started deleting stuff until all I had left was the maze. Still, I felt bad about posting a nothing update, so I did make the maze infinite and re-do the visuals. But yeah. I guess... Maybe this could be one of those art games they put in art galleries, à la Super Mario Clouds? I'm sure someone could find some value in this.

My life is the same old. Still unemployed. It was my birthday a week ago, which I spent all by myself. Most of my friends have moved away, and a lot of them didn't even bother to wish me online. I try not to blame them. I'm not good with dates either and I've forgotten more than my fair share of birthdays. But still. It was depressing. I did go out and get a burger and milkshake, but then I felt bad because it was overpriced and I can't really afford that kind of stuff right now. The other thing that has been on my mind is the looming matter of my soon-to-expire stay in this country. And uh. I don't really wanna get into that right now.

One good thing is that after I deleted all that stuff in my game I did feel a weird sense of clarity. I think maybe I can get back into it if I restart from zero and focus on just one aspect. Similarly, maybe I can get a job if I try to focus on one of my skills and try really hard to develop that one thing. Now I just gotta figure out what I'm the least bad at. Actually, no. What I'm the most good at. I mean best. My therapist would approve of this phrasing better. What do you think, reader? What should I do more of? More animation, more writing, more web design? Also, do you think I will make rent next month? Will I need to ask another friend for a loan? Find out in the next  update. Current version video below.