Rusty here. I have some unfortunate news. Crunching on the first three games has taken a toll on my hands and wrists. My wrists are inflamed from a Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI). This makes using a keyboard and mouse painful. My body needs time to rest and heal.
So we’re taking a four-week break before starting the next crunch. I wish we could start the next game now, but I’d be risking permanent damage to my wrists. I’m sorry to delay the project and I appreciate your understanding and patience.
We look forward to starting Game 4 at the end of June.
The complete version of Game 3 is done! You can download Paradox Lost from your Rewards page right now.
This game is huge. Two bosses. Three eras. Eleven abilities. Fifteen tracks. Twenty-eight prisoners. Eighty-eight rooms. Break out the graph paper, you’re gonna need a map, huge.
Fleshing out tilesets and backgrounds for the various areas of the game (we’re currently planning three, each existing in three distinct time periods). The first, I completed this weekend, is the forest: past, present, and future.
(The bubble around Abby is a new power-up, a window into the adjacent time period.)
Our second podcast is a GAIAttack postmortem. There’s spoilers, so if you haven’t played through the complete version, you might want to do that first!
tl;dr: We are anticipating taking an extra 7 days on the Paradox Lost polish period so Shaun can help out his Mom who is undergoing chemotherapy.
As those of you who follow me on Twitter might already know, my mom has been diagnosed with cancer. The chemo has been really hard on her. A few years ago my parents moved from Boston to Denver. They love the new city but don’t have the family support network they would have had in the New England area.
I’ve always said that I can do what I do from anywhere with an internet connection. Working in a distributed team, any of the pieces can change location without disrupting the others. Rusty moved from Sacramento to Austin the week before the End of Line crunch—and that game turned out great.
So to help out my parents, I bought a one way ticket and temporarily relocated to Denver right before our last crunch. A big part of being here is just being here; Mom isn’t alone for 10 hours a day. The other big part is taking her to her regular chemo treatments.
Rusty and Matt have been great through all this (she was diagnosed during the End of Line polish period) and have agreed that we should extend the polish period on Paradox Lost by 7 days so I don’t fall behind while helping care for my mom.
