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twenty eighteen

it’s been a long long year. i moved house, exhibited at or attended a million events, learned electronics and how to make web tools, and made a shit load of bitsy adjacent things. i’m so tired. i’ve taken the last weeks off just playing minecraft with the bitsy people. here’s a list of the major achievements of the year:

• January - moving house, bitsy boutique library, arduino/electronics
• February - Manifesto Megamix
• March - bitsy workshop at Digimakers, small games meetup
• April - Tomb of Dreamers, Dead Wife Game, flatgames @ Now Play This, bitsy boutique @ EGX Rezzed, A MAZE Berlin
• May - budget, Bitsy Mystery Dungeon, forgotten depths, world of bitsy
• June - The Bitsy Jim Jam, bitsy boutique @ Feral Vector, visited portmeirion
• July - a vision of the sublime
• August - Pixels X Paper (world of bitsy, avatar collage, various games), visited argentina
• September - flicksy, learned to make web tools
• October - Figuring
• November - shoal, bitsy boutique @ AdventureX
• December - bitsy audio, fire blog, it’s way past bed time, bitsy boutique @ AltPlaySpace

next year? perish.

i want to continue developing flicksy, though it didn’t quite turn out to be a tool i wanted to use much myself. i want to build more web tools in the same vein as flicksy: flicksy makes a nice base for making new things easily. revisiting old ideas of Tactics Factory and Sketchblocks would be great. i’m working on a sequel to bitsy boutique that will run the full web versions so i can support hacks/mods. i want to do a nice physical release of my castle series of bitsy games, with a bespoke soundtrack and side-material like notes and cut lore. there’s some game ideas i want to try if i can get either tactics factory or sketchblocks working. i want to tidy my dang house

however: i achieved ten billion things this year and cancelled ten billion others… so we’ll see what actually happens in 2019