Plans Secured.

It's time to get back on the bandwagon, and explain my current plans. Although they are always subject to change, I wanted to give everyone an update on what's been going on and where I'd like to see my company, Rise to Ruins and my future projects to go in the future.

As you all know, I've taken an extended break from game development as I focused on myself and my own health, my life, and the people around me. Most of you guys who follow me on Discord or Twitter have seen several of the things I've posted or said over the past year or so. A mistake I made on my previous announcement was the timeline though. I was unaware exactly how bad my mental health actually was at the time of writing it, and thus took an enormously longer time than I expected to start recovering.

The previous announcement is now only half the story, the other half is perhaps fascinating, I'm not sure. But it's another half that should be told, now that it can be.

The last 2 years have been quite an experience for me, good, bad and otherwise. It's hard to articulate it, because of who I am and how I am wired. But I will do my best to explain the situation and what happened. I'm not trying to make excuses, I do not care too. That's not the point.

I won't bother going over my life history again as I did in my previous announcement, but I will add some fun tidbits to it that may have some drastic changes on how everything is perceived, and I hope to give a better understanding as to what happened.

The first, and extremely likely most important addition to the story is on December 16th, 2021. I was officially diagnosed with ASD Level 1, or going by a (now obsolete) term more of you will recognize; I am a twice-exceptional person with Asperger's. If you want an example of what this means, I'm basically a real life Sheldon Cooper, just a bit less hyperbolic about it. (Fellow ASD: I get many people with ASD don't like this comparison, but it's very accurate for people like myself, we're just rare even among the ASD community.)

What does this mean? Well for you guys, not much. For me? Again, not much. I am still who I am, labels don't change that. I'm not magically some other person. But, it does give me clarity and explain some of my past actions, behaviors and why sometimes things just aren't in sync. As well, and most importantly, what the hell happened to me sometime in 2020.

What is important to understand, is why this happened. I've been working my entire adult life, non-stop in the pursuit of success to reach a level of security and stability, I achieved that in mid 2020, 20 years after first entering the workforce and 30 years too young, and my life fell apart. (Weird right?). I now can effectively retire whenever I want, although I won't. That feeling sounds great, until you realize I'm someone with Asperger's who made survival paramount.

I was burned out from 15 years of non-stop work. If you've read my previous announcement, you know my life. I've been on turbo for most of it, and I don't know how to not be on turbo. But I am not on turbo anymore, regardless I don't know how not to be. There in is the problem. In 2020, I suffered a complete