Happy New Year!

Like most people, I like to make some resolutions every year to work towards. Unlike many people, I try to make sure mine are realistic. So this year, here are a few things I’d like to do:

Blog More
I like writing but I’d never claim to be very good at it. I’ve written little stories in the past and I’ll come up with storylines in my head (usually for games), but I rarely try to create anything “complete”. And while blogging isn’t the same as writing a story, the more I write the better I’ll become. So this seems like a good place to start, and more importantly: low effort and fun. To that end, I’m planning on blogging a bit more. Maybe even get back into Twittering, since I’ve been doing much less of that lately.

Finish Tunnel Racer’s Rebirth (Or at least get closer.)
I’ve started a draft for a blog post about Tunnel Racer’s rebirth as 8 (which I think is the current working title for the game), which will go into more detail about what’s been done since my last post about Tunnel Racer. I’ve been slacking a bit on the project – between work and life I just haven’t felt the same urge to work on it. That said, I’ve been itching to get back to it, and I want to put some real effort into finishing what needs to be finished. It’s come a long way since the end of Tunnel Racer, but there’s still tons of work to do.

Restart Work on BattleGrid
Between work on Tunnel Racer’s new incarnation, I’d like to go back to working on BattleGrid. I have some ideas for ways to change it that would make it much more fun. I never wanted to abandon BattleGrid before, but it was getting too complicated for me and I was starting to struggle with it. Now that I’ve got some new tools and some new ideas, I should be able to fix it and improve on it.

Finish Some Games
I have a huge backlog of Steam games to play, and a giant wishlist on Steam at the same time. I want to power through a few of those games so I can get them out of my backlog, and clean up my wish list so I don’t have as much junk in there. I have a bad habit of wishlisting anything that looks remotely interesting, which ends up being just about everything.

There’s always more I’d like to do, but these seem attainable. The ones I’m really hoping to hit are my development-related ones, since I still want to get a game finished, and as I’ve said every year for the past few years: this is the year I finish and publish one.