Soul Sunder

3 days, everyone. 3 days and the full version of Soul Sunder will be released! Unity has finished her playtest of the game, I have addressed 99% of the problems put forth. For all intents and purposes, this game is ready to be released. But not yet. Rushing to post the project as soon as possible is not a good idea. I'm gonna wait a little bit. Just wait until I've calmed down-well, until I'm calmer. Because I don't think I'll ever calm down completely until well after its release.

I suppose now I'm at that point where, as my first solo project draws to a close, I start to feel those anxieties. It's strange because when I was working on Remnants of Isolation, I felt NO lack of confidence. Maybe because I wasn't alone? Maybe because unity and Sooz where both there to cover my weaknesses? (and make it look so F%$#@! easy too! "Hey, unity, we need about 3 maps for this area." "Oh? You need 3 decent looking maps? Well here's 5 awesome looking maps!") Or maybe because we were so busy that we didn't have TIME to be nervous? Regardless, when it came time for release, I was worried more about the reception of the game than I was about how well we did developing it.

Here though, I can feel my gut twisting up in a knot as release date comes closer. I know I'm my own worst critic, but I can't forcibly untwist this knot. I mean, there are plenty of things I don't like about this project. I'm not going to go over them all, but they stick out to me like a clown at a funeral.

But, at the time of this writing, there are at least 29 of you that like this project enough to follow it. Honestly, I never expected to get that many subs. And so, because of that, I can build a little ladder to climb out of this nervous muck I find myself in. It's a flimsy ladder, and threatens to disintegrate if I step on a weak spot, but it's a ladder. I can make my way out of the muck with it.


So... yeah. September 26th. That is the day the game will be released.


FOR ANYONE READING THIS WHO HAS'T PLAYED THE GAME YET AND WANTS TO: This may sound a bit strange, but I would recommend waiting for the full game to come out and not play the demo right now. The reason being that, due to one of the scripts the game is using, you save file from the demo will NOT transfer to the full game.

If you understand that, and STILL want to play the demo, well... it's there. Enjoy.