Period: 9 Jan 2025 – 15 Jan 2026
Contact Sheet: 2026_03
It’s been a bit of a strange week, to be honest. I’m currently in that mid-thirties limbo of waiting to hear back on different things, and too tired to seek them out. I took a bit of a leap on a possible new opportunity, nothing of particular interest, just something to keep afloat for the later part of this year… Now I’m just in that restless period of keeping on top of tasks, checking the phone and trying to stay productive while I wait for the date to approach.
To keep myself from falling into a blight of stress, I’ve gotten back into writing code for the fun of it. I’m messing around with the idea of investigation game, a bit like Her Story but purely text-driven. It’s set around the early 2010s and follows a crowd called the Department of Abstract Paraphysics & Applied Unmanifested Effects (DAPAUE). I’m keeping the details quiet for now, but it’s been good to just build something without the usual pressure.
I also went to the cinema with my sister to see 28 Years Later: Bone Temple the other night. It was intense and I loved it as a sequel, touching on everything I love about the 28 franchise, and takes it to the next level!
It also gave me a few ideas for the game, mostly about how countries could just be abandoned or forgotten. I’ve been thinking about this concept where entire places just drop out of the collective memory, where so much time passes that only a few niche historians even find the events interesting, while everyone else has just moved on and couldn’t care less.
That ties in a bit with the research I’ve been doing on technologies for social output. I’ve actually got some academic collaborations coming up on that front, so it’s busy enough. It’s a bit of a gear-shift moving between the academic side of things and just messing with code for the crack, but it keeps things interesting.
Finally, I’m turning 38 next month as well. It’s a bit of a milestone, I suppose, especially with the precarious employment situation and the research projects all coming to a head at the same time, and I’ll just ignore the community work right now too!. It’s just one of those months where everything feels like it’s in transition but needs rectification immediately.
We’ll see how the leap pays off.