Kandria
This was a rough week for me
I had a really good start into the week with my Monday office day being very productive. I managed to make some good improvements to Kandria and I'm fairly sure I can release the v0.0.2 demo the coming week.
However, the rest of the week did not fare as well. There's a university project deadline next Friday, which provided quite a bit of pressure and stress. Things really turned sour though when I heard that Finland was closing their borders to Switzerland again because Switzerland's Covid cases are shooting up again. I had a vacation to Finland planned in a week from now, and I had been looking forward to it for months.
I don't go on vacation often, typically only once every few years. My vacation time is almost always spent working on projects instead, so when I do go on vacation somewhere it's quite rare. This time was going to be special in addition to that, as I was going to meet two good friends of mine there, one of them for the first time ever since getting to knowing them over ten years ago.
It's extra painful since I can completely understand Finland's decision to close their border. A lot of Swiss people have been very uncooperative about Covid, with many not caring at all about distancing or quarantining, or even going so far as to claim that wearing a mask would be hazardous to ones health. Truly shameful.
So my holiday has been cancelled. I at least had taken the precaution to make the apartment we rented cancelable so I at least didn't have to waste a ton of money. The flight however was non-refundable, so I still lost a fair chunk of money to that. Worse than that though is that I just feel dejected and don't really know what to do with myself. One idea would be to go somewhere else within Switzerland, but there's honestly no place I'd want to visit. The holiday was meaningful to me due to the people I'd meet, not due to the location I'd go to.
I'll probably just end up slaving away again as if there had never been any holiday in the first place. Trying to set a week at home aside to "do nothing" during has never worked out for me and only served to make me depressed.
Anyway, due to all of this my Friday office day turned out much less productive than one could hope for. I only managed to make some minor adjustments to the movement and add some bits and bobs here and there. Not having a combat system I like is also still a big bummer that's making progress hard.
I think once I put the demo out I'll shift gears completely and abandon coding for a while, instead focusing on recruiting, marketing, and documenting. I should write a design doc and story doc to put some of my ideas into better shape, and then finally start into the unknown lands of recruitment to try and find someone to join the project. I'll try to keep worrying about that for next week though.
All of those worries and bummers aside, I'm looking forward to putting out the next demo, and I'm especially looking forward to getting feedback on it!
That said, I would really appreciate it if you gave it a try when it is out! Even if you end up not having much to say about it, at least let me know you gave it a try. Hearing that you're still following along would mean the world to me.