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[enembydev]

Slow Progress is still, progress

I haven't been updating much. I'd like to say it's due to work (Today is my only day off this week), but truthfully I just haven't felt any need to do... anything. Call it burn-out or whatever, I just don't have as much energy as I used to.

But there has been progress. Above is a new scene I've made, which I did mostly while livestreaming. I intend to save the meat of it until I'm ready to do another marketing push.

Additionally, I've started my own discord server, with some hesitation. I've yet to do a real push for that, either. I intend to strongly advertise it along with the next marketing push, which should (hopefully) put S1CK on top. In the meantime, if you'd like to join you can, at this link.

Anyways, the current plan is to push an update for No Man's Asteroids. I'm thinking about changing the name (so I don't get sued to oblivion), as currently I'm in a position to be taken down by both Atari and Hello Games. That wouldn't be ideal, I think. Afterwords, who knows?

Let's shoot the breeze a little. Think of new names for it :)

[enembydev]

The Queue: Almost Good

I’ve found a convenient new feature on Tumblr. The Queue! A feature that lets you ‘queue’ up posts, and post a new post every day. Sadly, this is limited scope. I’d prefer to queue things up so I posted once a week, every week (after all, who reads this blog every day?), but sadly it seems to be limited to once a day, minimum.

Fortunately, however, you can enable Queue 2.0, in the Lab Settings, which allows you to stretch out posts a bit longer (if you don’t mind a little minute math). So! Hypothetically, we should get one post a week. Hopefully. Probably. Maybe.

...Unless Tumblr limits the time between posts to 1440 minutes, aka one day. Dang it. So close to being useful! So. Close!

PS: This post was meant for Sunday. The Queue is broke and posted 3 posts in 6 hours.

PSS: This is the 200th post! How’s that for a week on the blog?

[enembydev]

The Plan

So. A few posts ago I mentioned that the blog (and everything else) is due for some changes. Today, we're going to talk about what exactly those changes are. First: I'm decommissioning a few things. This blog, the forum, the facebook page and any secret internal pages on the website will be gone soon. That's not to say they're gone forever, just being replaced by less hacky/unsafe methods. This wordpress blog has been ported over to Tumblr, with all post history and drafts included. I also have a handy backup incase things go back and I want to revert. Not likely, though. Instead of a forum, I'll now be using my subreddit, /r/Enemby, to facilitate discussion and receive feedback. I've also considered a Discord, for more daily discussion, but that will have to wait, since at the moment I don't have a lot of 'fanbase' to spare, and should pick my battle locations wisely.   Within the next few weeks, I'll be porting content from the old website over to the new tumblr page, and creating new pages that I never got around to making on here. Soon after, I plan on redirecting the domain to tumblr, and deleting this website, removing those pesky ads and bugs once and for all. This has a few advantages:

Almost no website management. That has really sucked of my development time over the last few years.

A clear, stylized presentation, supported by third-party themes and artists. I stubbornly tried to customize everything on the old site to 'make it mine'. That will no longer be needed.

No hosting fees, or security worries.

Less spam

Better marketing, and communication.

Just general pretty-ness.

Anyway, that's the plan. I hope I can take some time to talk about a project I'm working on currently, which at this rate will be done before I feel the need to write about it. See you on the other side!   -Enemby