Moon Pulls

It's been a hot minute since the last time we updated this dev blog, there's no point in denying it. A lot of things, in our lives and in the world at large, have changed for better or for worse. Is it fair to say that these are trying times? I think so. Unprecedented ones, in some ways. That's not an excuse or really even an explanation, it just is what it is. 

The bottom line is that we're still here. Still doing what we can, when we can, to inch this project further towards becoming a reality. I personally have so many moments in the script that I dream of one day sharing with anyone willing to give them a try. I hope that some day I'll be able to make you laugh, make you smile and look forward to whatever's coming next. Maybe I'll even find a chord to resonate with you, or a heart string or two to tug on. I hope so. That's what makes it all worth it, in my admittedly limited experience. 

Creativity is an outlet. It's an act of expression, and personally, for me it's often a satisfying and even joyful one. But it's a lot of work, too. It takes time and effort, and life weighs on me heavily these days. It weighs on my team mates too, in its own way for each of them. But we're trying to hang in there, and I truly hope that you're doing the same, too. Thanks for stopping by. Thanks for reading.

Keeping The Lights On

 The galaxy is a big place, and it can take a long time for a message to get from one point to another. That could be why we haven't said much in the last 9-ish months! It isn't, but it could be!

Real talk though, I'm just dropping by to let anyone listening know that yes, work is still continuing on Familiarity. The team still meets every week to work on scripts, forge new art, fetch and master SFX, etc. Currently we're focusing on improving the game engine, reviewing and editing writing material and slowly but surely cranking out more amazing background art.

Rome wasn't built in a day, just imagine how long Space Rome (in space) will take! Actually, I'd rather not think about it.

As always, thank you for checking in. Be well, stay safe, and may we all emerge from this hell that is 2020 as unharmed as possible. The consequences will never be the same.

Titles Are Hard

I'm going to be honest (and if it was hard to tell, in terms of blog posts we're usually not much of anything at all), I don't want it to be Christmas yet.

It's not that I don't like the holiday. I love it! It's one of my favorite times of the entire year. The lights, the opportunity to make the people around you happy with a thoughtful or silly gift. The weather not so much, unless you don't have to go anywhere. But personally, I rarely go anywhere, and here we are, T-minus just over six hours from the big day (here on the west coast, at least) and I haven't laid eyes on a snowflake since probably our last blog post. So that's not what has me dreading the passage of time.

See, the downside to Christmas finally getting here is that the buildup to the big day lasts so much longer than the main event itself. That there's such a crescendo during Christmas The Season, and once Christmas The Day gets here, before you even know it it's already over. And then everything, the lights, the cheer and whatever goodwill towards men that man was able to scrounge up this year, all of that is on its way out.

But that's just the way things are. And I know, I know, if Christmas never left, then it would never be able to arrive, either. But it's just so hard to feel the spirit of it all these days. Does anyone else feel like it's getting harder and harder to feel very much of anything at all? Wait, don't answer that. That was a rhetorical question. And you didn't come here for rambling, you here for a check of a pulse, if I had to make a guess.

It's to that end that I'm here to say that yes, we are still making progress towards completing the game that we set out to make, what feels like an unsettlingly long time ago. Do I wish we could go faster? That everyone had more free time and energy and less of just life getting in the way? Sure. But I enjoy what we're doing. And we do it in the hope that some day, you might enjoy it too.

From all of us at Airheart Interactive, we wish you a merry Christmas, a happy new year, and the best for every and any other opportunity you might take to celebrate. I'll leave you with just a few little things to hopefully tide you over, until next time.

Never Too Late

Slow Down to Speed Up

Hello everyone! Jumper here again. Oh boy it’s been a while since you’ve heard from us! I can assure you we are still going and still kicking, still having weekly meetings where we toil away at whatever needs to be done. I assume if you’re reading this you’ve stuck with us too, and we appreciate that!

Artwork by Fry!

You know for me, this time of year is a time of introspection. A good time to reflect on the past year, see what I did right and what I did wrong, and perhaps change so I can do better next year. This past year was admittedly slow for us. After putting out the second demo, we stopped, took a breath and evaluated what all needed to be done, and what we still had to do. We’ve been quietly working without anything to publicly show from it, a new song here or new backgrounds there, I know I’ve made many good quality of life changes to Familiarity, something I hope you’ll appreciate. As I reflect on the past year of development, I think of us slowly and quietly working to make things better, and to set us up so when we’re ready, we can kick it back into high gear and start cranking out finished scenes and new builds.

So that’s what we hope to do in 2019. We’re gonna speed it back up, get things going and start working on a lot of cool stuff we hopefully can show you. I know I’m personally very excited to see where we take everything. It’s good to slow down and take a rest, just as long as you know when to get going again. We hope you’ll stick around for it, and enjoy what we have to show.

With the holidays approaching, we hope you take the time to slow down a little too, and spend it with your loved ones, the people you cherish in your life. We at Airheart Interactive wish everyone a very happy holidays, and a very good new year. See you in 2019.