Our Eminence · 5:38am Apr 7th, 2015
So, as many, or most, of you have likely seen, Our Eminence has recently updated. Two whole chapters, even! A grand culmination of Two Year's work, to be certain.
Of course in light of this a question is surely going through all your heads, to the tune of, "Does this mean Our Eminence will be updating again? Is it going to finish?"
No.
At least, not necessarily. As much of a cop out as it is, the best answer I can provide at the moment is... I don't know.
Do I enjoy working on Our Eminence? Most of the time, yes. Could I finish it if I chose? Probably. I certainly have the rest of the story largely mapped out, if not in precise detail. Should I finish it? Again, probably. Follow-through is always a good habit to have. Do I have the time for it? ... Maybe. Maybe not.
You see near on Three Years after moving to my current home, I still don't have the job I moved here for. Oh, I have a job, and I'm moving up through it's ranks. It's comfortable, even enjoyable. But... in my job, comfort is always a temporary ordeal. And while that comfort looks like it has a long lifespan, you can never tell for sure. And frankly, it just isn't the work I want to be doing with my life. One doesn't move across an entire country for work just to settle, particularly not for a job that isn't ultimately sustainable.
But this is all my own problem. Put simply, I need to spend time working on my career. Last year I worked for Six Months solid on a single portfolio piece, and I have something good to show for it... but something basic. In Game Design, six months doesn't account to all that much, and there's still work that could be done to make it better. To say nothing of the fact that in this field, having the best product doesn't always matter. I need to get my face out in the industry, and that takes a bit of dedication too. Maybe not as much as the making of something, but still time.
The point is, at the end of the day, is that I have important business that takes a goodly amount of my time. Or at least, likely will. With that, I can't say how much time or energy I'll have to dedicate to finishing the story. I can try, but I can't promise.
I apologize for my ambling on personal issues, and I'll give you the TL;DR: I can't promise to dedicate any time to Our Eminence. I'd like to continue working on it, but I can't promise anything even vaguely resembling a consistent update schedule. All I can say is I'll try not to let the next update take two years.
The best of luck to you, no matter what comes.
Relatedly, do you have any interaction with user Bookish Delight? She, too, is involved in game design, although I do not know in what capacity and to what extent.
2955345 I don't believe I'd ever heard of her, no. But thank you for directing me her way - forming contacts and relationships is a huge deal in this industry.