2025 New Year's Resolutions

2025 - A new year! But with a new year comes a new start. And a new start means means new projects.

What are your resolutions for this year? Mine is to get my WIP into a shapeable place by the end of this year. I also have some other ones, but that’s the main one here!

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Complete first working version of Sharpee and a sample story.

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Stop smoking.

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I have three Inform works-in-progress, and I would like to finish them all. Two are “small” and will probably wind up being 30k words apiece. The other, larger one will be over 100k words. A lot to get through!

I want to write about four Infocom games for Gold Machine. The next in the sequence are Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Moonmist, Hollywood Hijinx, and Bureaucracy. Unfortunately, I’m only interested in LGOP, so that will likely feel like work most of the time.

I’d also like to write a good first parser game, with a decent tutorial and whatnot. Busy busy!

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Honestly I cannot wait to survive. 2024 has been hell.

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The usual.

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Releasing a non-joke game! I have a sabbatical this year so hopefully that’s not out of reach.

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Wrote my resolutions in a blog post:

https://mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2025-01-01-New%20Year’s%20Resolutions%20for%202025

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I don’t do resolutions, I do yearly themes:

If you want it in goal form:

  • Seek resonances in my life and cultivate them. Seek dissonances and dismantle them.
  • Make small, cool things for my small, cool communities (that’s you!)
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I’d like to finally finish my Rosebush article on the parser-IF roots of visual novels… it’s been 2/3 done for like a year, but stuff just keeps coming up.

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Basically “recognize that a lot of ‘self-improvement’ talk is just targeted at getting you to produce and consume more, so stop beating yourself up” and this

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Top of my head, without much thought into it:

  • trying out more IF tools (Donjon.fi, Moiki, Inform 7 and Binksi was this year)
  • play/review more older IF games (especially French one without a review)
  • and the ever-returning: actually finish WIPs (one should have been done, and I’ve been putting it off for like 2 months…)

And just… enjoy as much down-time I can get.

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I have a resolution for his Year… Don’t do any resolution.

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Playing more IF than coding IF; improve my written english. gather more ßtesters, release some smaller IF.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

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From the IF related ones: release the Big Project I’m working on right now… and then start working on making it bigger.

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i made mine a post! Hope the days make sense again next week • Buttondown

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Figure out a way to create something worth playing in time for Spring Thing.

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Mine is to get my WIP finally finished to submit for the Spring Thing 2025 festival! Finally making really good progress and it’s shaping up.

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Work on a episodic project, could be a moddable game, or just serialised if. I want to keep working on a project making it big rather than jumping around trying new frameworks or whatever.

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