Before the journey home

I have decided to move for many reasons. The biggest one being the game. I want to focus as much energy as I can on Grav My Balls. I still have opportunities to work a day job part time which could be a blessing if it does not distract from the game development. It will still be a good way to slow down the burn of savings during dev time. I am going to try this for a bit until I get used to the new space and also the new lifestyle. I will be fully remote and also putting in the majority of the time into game dev. 

The move has been complicated. It is something I wanted to do because I also needed a change. What better way to do a big change is to go back to something familiar. Its like change but old change. Among the many reasons is to be around my family. I have lived away from them for a long time and I feel as though I am missing a lot. I have lived out here with no family for a long time. Not the entire time but the majority of it. When I feel like this whole idea was a mistake, I think about my family at home and how close I will be. The thought makes me happy. I can also take a break from expensive visits. One more big ass expensive one to go but it will be the last one for a while. 

I have not lived where I am heading in over a decade. I left when I was 26 and to put it simply, I was still a kid. Technically an adult but definitely not experienced. Definitely did not have the responsibility of an adult. I am making it a point to use my work ethic that I have now and apply that energy full ass into game dev. There will be times of learning but I want to stick to a mentality of “Make it exist and make it pretty later.” Getting your ideas out or trying to make mechanics work. Make rough, blocking levels to test them out. Make forward progress and do not procrastinate. 
Staying motivated and serious about developing Grav My Balls is my priority. I am going to start a dev stream with really anything I am working on at the time. I can switch it up because I am tackling a lot of aspects for the game. The whole development will not be streamed so I can stream what I feel like working on that day. To be honest, I will have times when I am coding but that will be a struggle. Chat could maybe help me when I do not know what I am doing. With code, that will be often. But other times, you could be seeing me sculpting assets or characters, setting up rigs, animating. There will be playtesting streams too. I am also hoping to do streams with Udon. We have done that before but now I will have my own channel. Udon is starting to cook something up just for my stream. He has an amazing chat bot game on his stream and I am asking for his help to make one for me too. We have both come up with some cool ideas and I’m excited to see it in action. I will be joining in on the bot dev during the trip to Jers and after I am set up in my new spot.