Next week I'll be traveling with my wife to attend the Nordic Game conference in Malmö, Sweden.
This is actually the first time I've ever attended a game developer conference: when I first started out doing indie game development, it was not at all clear that this would be a profitable endeavor, so I resisted any expense that wasn't absolutely essential for making the game I was working on.
At a certain point the Starcom games became successful enough that a conference would be a reasonable expense, but I was so overwhelmed with the literal thousands of tasks that I rarely felt like I could spare the time, and when I could it didn't necessarily align with an industry event I was interested in.
Now that Starcom: Unknown Space has been out of Early Access for 8 months, I'm still making updates, but they aren't critical patches: mostly QoL improvements, bug fixes and addressing the few remaining areas where players need a bit more guidance.
This felt like the ideal time to take a workcation and see what other developers are doing, and the Nordic conference fit our schedule.
So the regular weekly updates may pause or be irregular for the next two weeks until I get back, although I will be checking emails and the forums periodically.
Until then!
- Kevin