Another Health Update

Hey y'all,

Yes, I am still recovering from the mono I got a bit over 5 months ago.

It's finally been on the mend since mid/late February, but my energy levels are still unpredictable and my memory has been full of a worrying amount of holes.

I'm in a good-enough place mentally that I have still kept writing down ideas and snippets of outlines for the visual novel (which you can check out as pinned spoiler messages in the the #redreamer-chat channel of the VN's Discord server (invite)), such as how to resolve certain plot contradictions for Britney's route to give Zach realistic motivations for ending the route on a male gender identity but a female body and further detailing how much Zach hurts himself when he finally realizes he's got feelings for Keisuke, but typing stuff on my phone while stuck in bed to expand upon ideas I want to get to isn't the same as being able to be up and do all the juggled tasks I have on a daily basis (e.g., writing, coding, composing scenes, finding and editing music and SFX, making design documents for artists and contacting them, checking art, editing art for consistency, checking discord, checking sites this game gets distributed to).

I have still tried to work on the game as much as I can, but progress within the release has been a bit slow as I build up steam to really get cooking. I can now have those 14-hour days again which gets that ball in motion (I am hoping for that today even if I can't stay up late because I have to report for jury selection tomorrow; yes, I too am surprised my health hasn't permanently disqualified from service, but in times like these, I need to actually do what little civic duty I can to make the world less crazy), but it's just very hard to plan things right now. I don't like that we're now on 5 months of me thanking you all for patient, especially since this update was already 90% finished before the mono started. Yes, I can either work and produce subpar stuff I'll not only have to redo later as it won't be up to my standards and which I will likely have foggy recollections of, or I can just suck this up and ride out the storm to write as well as I know I can and not botch the writing at the last stretch.

Until next time.