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There's a fresh 4X compo in town, and we're getting to it with gusto. Or at least I think that's what's happening. Regardless, it has been a long road from Revision to getting back into the IDE. I'll admit that the first few evenings were a painful affair. Fortunately, I…

Looking over the latest progress report, it appears that I'm slightly ahead of schedule... but this is an illusion, as we all know projects are never complete. There's always some random piece of polish left unrealized. Being a perfectionist, even in a minor capacity, is a pain in the ass.

I'm still sprinting toward a firm completion deadline, and at this point I feel comfortable claiming I'll have the demo finished in time. Finished, and polished to my satisfaction, are two entirely different things, and we both know that if I were allotted another year to work on this demo,…

...was a success. Absolutely. And we've agreed that this is a most mondo thing and must continue happening: yearly, if not more often. We piled into the living room, set up, and jammed out for ~2.5 days, stopping briefly to eat and sleep. There were still some technical difficulties incurred…

We pulled of a dry run for the upcoming Jam it In live compo. We didn't have a full crew (Begui was MIA) but things went incredibly smooth. There was a tremendous sense of energy, and we kept each other going with shared progress reports. We'd break every four or…