This project has been in the works since January of this year. My initial draft was completed forever ago, but when I started formatting it, I realized I have quite a few gaps to fill. I had ideas about how to make it even better, so I started making major changes that now have to be reflected in the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday, I began drafting the materials list, but once I finished that, I continued on and began drafting a Stitch Glossary (for those who plan to embroider their game). I don’t think I’ll go so far as to create video tutorials of my own, but I will definitely create a list of links that players can reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s just a start, but I’m loving <\/em>how it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, I published <\/strong>the project page for Home Sweet Home<\/a> on my website, which is the first step to making anything I do official.<\/strong>\u00a0I make these pages entirely for my own benefit, using them as my personal to-do list. Once the projects are done, the pages become a permanent part of my portfolio. For example, here’s the page for Plane.<\/a>\u00a0Here’s the one for Darkness Blooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m hoping this will be a short project.<\/strong> Ideally, the Kickstarter will launch in October with fulfillment in December (yes, of this <\/em>year, lol). I’m going to try very hard<\/em> to rein in my impulse to blow the project up into an 18-month, 150-page endeavor. (I just repeat to myself “I will not design a card deck. I will <\/em>not <\/em><\/strong>design a card deck. I <\/em>will not<\/em> <\/strong>design a card deck.”)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I want very much for Home Sweet Home<\/em> to top out at 50 pages. On A5 paper, that’s not many words at all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, I’m juggling more projects than I’d like. <\/strong>In an effort to keep my stress level reasonable, I’m not allowing myself to work more than 10 hours each week on the projects I strongly dislike: the second edition of The Beauty Industry Survival Guide<\/em> and “Silence is Sabotage,” a presentation I’ll be delivering at pro-beauty trade shows next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honestly, I want them to be done so badly because thinking about them makes my blood boil a tiny bit, but it’s probably best for my anxious, trembling brain if I take it slow. Once they’re finished, I’ll be done with projects I hate for the foreseeable future, so at least there’s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other news, Ingram has shipped the paperback proof for Plane<\/em>. The hardcover is still queued for printing, but it should be shipped within the next few days also. As soon as they arrive, expect pictures and a full rundown of my print proofing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey everyone! This week, my second-oldest daughter and I started working on Home Sweet Home,\u00a0my contribution to a 4-game collection (The Welcome Wagon) that Nate, Tim, Kanishk, and I are working on together. This project has been in the works since January of this year. My initial draft was completed forever ago, but when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ph_site_tiers_settings":[[{"Price":"1.00","Tier_name":"Steadfast Supporter","Tier_id":"prod_PaAF3yLFLYGcEN","Selected":true,"Tier_status":"publish"},{"Price":"2.00","Tier_name":"Devoted Disciple","Tier_id":"prod_PaAHc7tOOYhGVR","Selected":true,"Tier_status":"publish"},{"Price":"3.00","Tier_name":"Arcane Advisor","Tier_id":"prod_PaAJ2JwZ9uMwgJ","Selected":true,"Tier_status":"publish"}]],"_ph_post_tiers":["prod_PaAF3yLFLYGcEN","prod_PaAHc7tOOYhGVR","prod_PaAJ2JwZ9uMwgJ"],"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on.patronhunt.com\/thedreadmachine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/c10.patreonusercontent.com\/4\/patreon-media\/p\/post\/110459961\/94ca2ef897144aca91742e4b2a7f8534\/e30%3D\/1.png?token-time=1725494400&token-hash=aSu8m5KTmhdlKIfCYibbAMmu-rfxIPR_goryTK30j0I%3D\")
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