HELL HATH POLITELY FROZEN OVER

Aside from an awful lot of random polish, I'm done creating content for the demo. That's not to say I'm done done, but if something happened and I couldn't do any further work, I'd still have a demo that would be feature complete, and playable from start to finish, within the 8 minute time limit.

Allow me to relax for a moment.

This leaves me approximately three weeks for polish, before I run out of guaranteed dev time. I may get a 4th week, but that depends on so many things that are so far out of my control, that I hesitate to even take it into consideration; so I don't. If I get any of that 4th week, then so be it. I'll probably be so tired, that even if the moment arrives, I'll let it pass.

I've been rather ill all this week, so I've been slacking far more than normal. Indeed, this is the first time in months I've actually slacked for an entire day. It felt genuinely odd. But the reality is sinking in. I've made it to the finish line; now we just see how far we'll push beyond that. I'm doubly pleased, because now I can slow down and let my body recover from six straight months of unending punishment. And for the avoidance of doubt, it feels like just that: punishment. I have enjoyed a fair bit of the dev process, but demos are a huge pain point because of the hard deadline, accompanied by extensive travel prep, and parties are seldom set at convenient times of the year.

I'm gonna go turn my brain off for a few hours. I've fucking earned it.