I am not super happy with how the update is going with all the distractions recently, but I don’t want to delay things so I should have the update tomorrow for Old Souls.

Was a bit more free today and got more done than the last few days, so that is an improvement. Though I still feel like I could of gotten more done. I am also not entirely sure where I am going with Old Souls with the pregnancy stuff. I feel there could be a more of a story there but it is more just random stuff going on, though it is all related so it isn’t completely random.

I feel like I say this a lot. During the summer time kids are out of school, and my nephew is over a lot because his parents work in the day and someone needs to watch him, and then later in the day because I am just a cool person and he likes hanging out with me, and maybe a little because he doesn’t want to go outside because it is crazy hot out. So it makes it hard to get stuff done every day, even though I really want that to be my goal to get stuff done everyday.

Still kind of busy today, though I got a lot of other stuff done, so should hopefully be free to focus more on working on the game now, than over the weekend and the last couple of days. This is probably why I felt I was so productive before, working in the mornings. Since even though I am not a morning person and kind of tired in the morning, there isn’t any distractions if I get up early specifically to focus on doing stuff. If distractions keep popping up, might have to start doing that again. Even if is getting pretty hot in the mornings and it kinds of suck to be doing much during the day(well not like I have to go outside at least).

So really busy today too, though Monday’s is usually a bit of a light day for planning things out. This week going to continue working on Old Soul again, to finish up the pregnancy arc. I am sort of wondering if I should start working towards the end of the game. Since that would be going full circle. Being reborn, growing up, having a kid. Well I don’t want to end it too early, and the character is still fairly young even if they have a child. Though it is getting to where I might start thinking about where I want the end of the game to go towards.

Next week and the week after, I will be working on magical girl contest. I think after that, I might take a break from all the games and focus on the contest for tfgamesite. That will be putting us into Come next month, that will give me 3 months to work on the contest game. That is probably more time than I need, though I don’t want to be rushing on it at the last minute either.

Happy 4th of July. Spent most of the day just hanging out with family for the holiday and then set off some fire works and stuff. So not much really got done game wise today, as expected.

So I decided that I will put out the update next week after all. I mentioned I was thinking about it, but then also I didn’t get anything done at all today because school is out and my nephew showed up to bug me all day. I could delay it until tomorrow, but then it is a holiday tomorrow so I might have stuff going on then too. So since I was thinking of just doing the update next week anyway, and then today turned out to be a really bad day too, I think I will just go with that.

So the plan is to work on Old Souls again next week, and I am thinking if I should release the update this week, or just go for another week then release the bigger update then. This week doesn’t have a lot of plot development, but there is a bunch of sex scenes since most of the paths involve more sex(such as with your lover).

It does feel a little like cheating, since I can put off some of the work of organizing everything to be at the same point and linking back together for the update. Basically I can leaves things a little messy, if I know people wont see it, then can just do it next week. That said it will still get cleaned up for the update next week if I go that way, and I can use the time saved to work on other scenes. So it isn’t really a bad thing. I probably wouldn’t want to leave it like that if I was taking a long break, but since I am working on it two weeks in a row, it also makes sense to save some time on it.

Still a little behind my schedule, but hopefully I should have a lot of time to catch up on things tomorrow. Over the long term, I do feel like making a schedule and sticking to working on games in a more methodical way has improved how much I get done and got me doing more consistent work and updates and stuff. Though I still feel like I need to work on the day to day stuff. It seems like there is a lot of stuff that can throw me off track, and usually I can catch up on the work later in the week and still get things done. However, I think I can get even more work done if I get stuff done every day, which is really my goal.

I feel like I got pretty much nothing done today. Way too many things distracting me, and other people distracting me. I got a bunch of stuff I need to do tomorrow too, at least early in the day, but hopefully I will be able to get back on track and get a lot done tomorrow evening.