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Welcome Back!
This is the final blog post… It has been an absolute pleasure to try gamedev and get all your support for this long. Me and Will, the other half of Blue Pin Studio published our first game on itch in March 2020.
I figured there’s no better time to contemplate the past than every year in March. This time I decided enough is enough.
In the beginning many people were supportive but as I sunk more and more time without financial success I started getting concerned comments. I had falling outs with family, friends, and even lost a long term relationship partially because of who I became chasing game dev success.
I can’t even tell you how many people told me to stop, to slow down, to focus on getting a real career, etc.
I know their heart was in a good place. It’s time i listened…
But before we go, I would love to reflect on all the positive comments people have left on all my games. I also want to write a special thank you to everyone who helped me on each of the games. I made an effort to work with and meet as many great people as I could.
I’m honored that all of these great people carved out at least a small part of their time, effort, emtions and energy for me…
Collaborators
I’m proud to say everyone I worked with was great at their role and made each of the projects greater than the sum of their parts. I couldn’t have done it without you all, literally and figuratively. Thank you.
- Toaster Treasure: Will & Dano & Luko & Cherry
- Keep Dano Alive: Will & Dano & Luko & Cherry
- Imperial Eggnog Inc: Will & Dano & Cherry
- Explory Story Jam: Bizmaster & Thlurp & Tepg
- U49 Meltdown: Matias & Ashley & Likenjay
- Quadratorum: Bahska
- Blend Defend: EiRe & AENJO
- Panopticon: Al
- Charles the Bee Jam: Gina & Minus
- Devilivery: Manisha & George & Dale
- RAMpage: Manisha & Keely
- Sinful Scoops: Funky Mushroom & Chrishie & Leunarie
- Insock Out: Augusto & RedCocoa
- Charles the Bee Steam: All of the talented composers & Gina
- Save Nebuville: Pijinguy & Bonejacq
- Trash Force Jam: Mike & Pixel Pigeon & RedCocoa
- Power of Loveball: Pijinguy & Fasla & Princess Sylvysprit
- Falling Thingies (jam): Calvin
- Antz vs Plantz: Manisha & Keely
- Ship Happens: Rujum & Tarudesu & Liam & Calvin
- Greg Gathers Ghosts: Manisha & Keely & Axel
Never-Ending Encouragement
Thank you to everyone, your support means the world to me. If i forgot to list you its probably because I forgot, not intentionally omitting you. These are people who never told me anything except how to improve and encouraged me to keep going.
This list doesn’t contain some people because they’re already in the list above ❤️
- Dmitri
- BDMatsterrr
- DragonSlumber
- Evan
- Athano
- Fruloo
- Zemeck
- Patrick
- Yashar
- 10 Tigers Groupchat
Players
Thank you to all the players who checked out the game, or bought the game. You made it easy to keep going. Until it wasn’t.
- 600+ Eggnog Incorporated players
- 11,000+ Pixel Fixel players across Steam, Newgrounds, Itch, iOS, Android
- 2000+ Charles the Bee players across Steam, Newgrounds, Itch
- 10,000+ Players across all game jam entries on Itch & Newgrounds
- Hundreds of positive comments on Itch and LudumDare and Newgrounds
Parting Words
I want to thank all my friends that comforted me during all the tough times.
I did the best I can. If you want to see the journey, this website will remain up. Don’t be a stranger, drop into my dms.
Onwards to greener pastures! Good luck to us all.
I’ll leave you with a new song by Fetty Wap. I would rather die than not leave you with a witty remark :D
White Roses by Fetty Wap
