One calendar year has ended, and in a few hours for me, another will begin. 2011 was a pretty interesting ride for me personally, as well as a vn writer and enthusiast. Where Team BG is concerned, a lot happened behind the scenes, but this might actually be the only year since we started in earnest we didn’t have a vn release. vNovel did publish their iOS port of Songs of Araiah, but that wasn’t a new project (and that fact was the cause for a little buzz for a short while). I personally released The Position (http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10650), but didn’t deem it fit enough to bear the Team BG tag. It was mostly a personal project, and was also part of a request from a good friend, but outside of that, it really wasn’t a story that needed to be shared. It’s just that I can’t keep these things to myself.
The end of the year has gotten particularly exciting for me though, as I managed to wrap up the editing pass for our current project. I guess I can call it a second draft now? I only recently started work on making an alpha build for it to pass around to collect some opinions. There are parts to it that make me nervous. In fact, the other day I just proved how much more work needs to be done when I finally drew up a flowchart for the choices and found them to be pretty one-sided. Still, hopefully soon, I’ll have an alpha version built and can start working on the corrections that come in. This is all pretty well timed too, since our artist isn’t presently available but should be once we get responses from the alpha back. Hopefully we can see a release in the next few months, but there’s plenty of ground to cover.
Finally, I’ve been mulling over some ideas for a side project to take on while I slave over the non-writing parts of this alpha project, and there’s one I’ve been sitting on for a while that is really beginning to jump out at me. I certainly can’t make any promises, but hopefully I’ll take a crack at this one too in the next year. I’d love to try my hand at a mystery again, and getting to have an evil doll as one of the characters this time is just too much to pass up. But who knows… I guess even I will have to wait to see what the new year will bring.
Happy New Year!