I'm definitely overdue for a general status update. Things have been even more hectic lately, for reasons both related and not to the Corona Virus situation. I'm aware that a lovely community of followers expects new content from me, which yes I'm still working on but not as rapidly. For this reason plus COVID-19 affecting us all, I absolutely can't blame anyone for lowering or deleting their Patreon pledges, even if things suck even more now.

Due to having to do more at a time both online and IRL, I've been having to improve my multitasking capabilities so I can do a little on a project each day. Seems I even managed to develop the ability to watch two or more videos at once and actually understand them both! Luckily I also discovered the new picture-in-picture mode Firefox now offers, after noticing a little blue icon popping up and initially annoying me on every video... turns out it allows me to detach any video and put it in a corner of the screen, making it possible to work in Blender while watching stuff I only need to pay partial attention to.

Although this is in no way an excuse, I think it's fair to state that another reason it's been harder to keep working on stuff is the medication I'm on. Following my suicide attempt last year (not a can of worms I'd like reopen here and now) my mother agreed with me seeing a therapist to prescribe treatment for stress / paranoia / depression. The meds I've been on over the past 6 months reached the end of what they could achieve... as of this week I'm taking two different types of pills each day, and this seems to have some positive effects once more! The downside (from this perspective) is that they both make me a lot more tired and sleepy, and now I'm ending up sleeping for almost 12 hours every night. I'm still thinking of how to harmonize this with my Patreon in the long term, especially as I'm unsure how long we'll be prolonging the treatment (likely at least another 6 more months I'd imagine).

I don't know if I'll have many new things to post during this April... except of course for the yearly Easter render! The Orthodox Easter is on the 19th so expect it then, you know the drill. Otherwise I hope you liked the Vore Tournament screenshot I had for this April 1st; Feel free to give the latest Git master a try... that was just an edited image after all, there's no risk of encountering something like that in the actual game :)

As for what I've been currently working on and am yet to post? Been going a little crazy with the Eevee engine, cuz I'm absolutely in love with its quality versus render time ratio and what that allows me to do now! The vorish possibilities are... um, what I meant to say is... oh yeah: I started a few experiments in creating whole scenes and even creatures using only modifiers and procedural textures. One might be surprised how well that's working out and the detail it allows for, even I'm amazed at the procedural tricks Blender 2.8 lets me pull off! Next month I'll probably share some of that with the 5$ tier... hard to plan for anything more long term than that now, though I really want to get back to building that Tuxemon mod too.