Alright so, lets fucking gooooooooo

Developing a game is hard, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had the pleasure of suffering at. Being a solo developer on this project for such a long time was a difficult adventure, and I’ll be honest it was easily one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done. 

I have a meme reference for this but I can’t find it so whatever. Financially void rifter so far has been a disaster LOL. I’ve made about 100 dollars and I’ll be honest it’s been a shit experience that has pushed me into the magical world of free-to-play. 

How is switching to free to play you ask? Well, for lack of a better term, a fucking nightmare. Not only do I need to BY MYSELF build a whole host of user login shit, but create an economy system, add fun cool parts for your mech, add a proper store, also in game advertisement because I’m poor and need money, and on top of that make all of this user friendly and nice and colourful and not a nightmare. What a fucking adventure

I’ll be honest, I’m not one for being not colourful with my words, and I’m also Canadian and wish auto-correct would stop trying to spell colour color because I’m not spelling it like that. Also, did you know based on a not peer-reviewed study released over 10 years ago on a news website that I can’t even remember the name of they said Canadians were one of the most swearing people in the world?? Fucking eh right?

Anyways back to the game. I’m tired, I’m literally so tired, this game is on the track to break me as a human being BUT I CAN DO THIS. I believe and I know this game will at least be mediocrely successfully. I just need to keep finding all these “oh fuck I’m an idiot why did I do that, no wonder there were issues what the hell is wrong with me” surprises in the games mess of a code and I’ll be set for an update one of these damn days.

Did I ever mention how hard it is to judge deadlines when you’re a solo programmer working on something? I am no longer the only one working on void rifter, thankfully. But the parts i am working on i am still alone. This leaves me in a very complicated situation of never being able to meet a deadline to save my life as i’ve never done a project this large before. That being said i literally love this project more than i love coffee and that’s a fucking lot for anyone who knows me. Coffee is my SHIT.

Honestly this whole mess is simply just my way of saying, this shit’s fucking hard, i am fucking tired, and i am hoping to the great cathulu that this released update will provide me with AT LEAST enough money to take this project on again full time. This project means everything to me, it is my heart and soul and i just wish to share it with as many people as possible. That’s all that matters to me for void rifter. 

Anywho, if you made it this far in this chaotic mess of a devlog, i applaud you, and highly recommend you join the void rifter discord so you can see these more often or never depending on how i’m feeling