Kinda hard to say this but going to go on an indefinite hiatus. This month I got hit with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) which is when you suddenly and rapidly lose hearing. For the vast majority of cases, the cause for this is unknown, so you'll just wake up one day with no hearing in one ear. Fortunately, it only happened to my left ear, so I can still with my right and have a regular conversation with people. Unfortunately, the loss in my left ear is classified as "severe" for low frequencies and most likely I'll have at least some permanent hearing loss, and that's even if the treatments are successful.
I will say, I was really lucky to have a great ENT doctor that's giving me every chance to recover whatever hearing I can. From the moment the hearing loss occurs, you're basically on a time limit to try and recover and heal. There does seem to be some good improvement in my hearing especially in the higher frequencies, but I'm still "severe" for the low frequencies.
Before:
Test 5 days later with improvements:
So something that's going to be taking a lot of my free time now is to do hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which may help me recover. The treatment needs to be done continuously every weekday for 4-5 weeks, for 2-hour sessions. Including the travel, this will pretty much take up all of my free time over the weekdays. I spoke with my boss and I can have a much more flexible schedule since we're work-from-home, but will most likely be working noon - 8 pm. Don't be too worried about my health though, since even if there's no further improvement from today, I can still live normally just with some inconveniences.
Even if I didn't get this health problem, I was probably going to step away. I feel like there are a couple of people who read these monthly devlogs since I get the occasional comments and thumbs up, so sorry for letting you guys down. I really just want to focus on my health and other general aspects of my life. Over a long period of time, it does get pretty stressful since I always put pressure on myself to spend time outside of working hours to do more game development so that I can get closer to my goal. I think a proper break is something that I need right now.
I have to say, I'm really glad I even started making Bright Red Skies. I don't think I've ever worked on anything as diligently as I have in the development of BRS. I definitely learned a lot in a technical sense, and I feel like I gained some discipline that helps me in my general day-to-day. I'm also, grateful for game development since I have a dream that I want to achieve now. I may not be any time soon, but at least there's a target I can always try to reach.
I don't want to make any promises, so I won't say I'm going to start posting after a certain period of time. But maybe one day, months or years from now you might see a new BRS devlog. It's been fun, thanks for all you guys that have been following along! :)
The spookiest time of the year is coming and we have something special planned. A special event will be hosted between October 31st and November 7th!
Halloween Challenge 2021
We have created a special level that you can all experience in the weekly challenge mode during the time of the event but that's not all! For those of you who manage to beat the level, we have created special appearances that you can unlock only during the Halloween event. Once unlocked, they will be yours to keep. Just don't lose your save file.
Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect:
Unlockable Appearances
These are the unlockable appearances that you can unlock during the event. Play with each plane to unlock the appearance for it.
We have just released a patch: Fixed the problem that horses in animal power buildings will not be removed Fixed the missing material for harvest trees selection in URP mode Fixed the problem of ineffective improvement of processing efficiency in water sawmill Fixed the problem that the URP range circle is not displayed and some colors are abnormal Fixed part of multilingual translation
- custom night and challenge nights being unplayable after exiting via the escape key - the audio settings not saving correctly - music randomly stopping when quitting a night via the escape key
