Regular New Journal + Kickstarter

Hey Everyone.

Happy New Year! It's been a heck of a year for me in terms of growing as a person and as a designer and artist. I haven't done much leisure art over the past year, unfortunately, as I've been kept super busy with college. I've been hoping to post some of my college work soon... But I'm still alive and kicking!

Progress on Project Norwall is going... slowly. Obviously, we never met our goal to get the game released a summer ago. As always, we hope things can pick up, and they never do. It's just difficult to work on a game for free and still go about the rest of your life. But alas, we continue to push forward. There's still a long way to go, but we're hoping to improve our circumstances soon. I dunno if I've already mentioned this or not, but our game is now going to be for iOS (iPhone/Pod/Pad). Going forward, we're going to be creating our games primarily for the App Store, and perhaps as we grow we will expand to Steam and other viable outlets for Indie development.

On that subject, we're actually going to be starting a Kickstarter page. It'll most likely be starting some time towards the end of this month, so if you feel like giving us a little push, I'll let you guys know when that becomes available. In return, we hope we can make a quality game that people will enjoy playing.

As for me myself, I'm learning a lot in college. My teachers seem to be happy with my work, which is always a huge encouragement, but it also puts a bit of pressure on me, as I feel like I have to always go an extra mile to impress them... I end up killing myself for it—usually in the form of not sleeping. I'm going to be launching a personal website that will be a hub for all things me! including design, art, music, a blog, and various networks that I'm a part of (including this one).

Plans for this year... I plan on being busy with school again. I won't kid myself into saying that I'll get more leisure art done this year than last year. Looking back over the past 4 years or so, I often laugh and cringe at myself for how much of an idiot I've been in many respects. I hope to better myself as a person this year—not without some divine intervention—and I hope to continue to be a person that you find worth watching here on deviantART! Maybe I'll update this journal more frequently... as always, probably not.

So if you read all that, kudos! =b

Oh... and I changed my icon for the first time in years as part of my effort to unify my online identity.

Thank you all for watching me over the years, and I hope you have a great 2012! God bless!