{"id":671,"date":"2026-01-01T04:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:31:34","slug":"devs-journal-1-jan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Dev&#8217;s Journal &#8211; 1 Jan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve decided to pause these devlogs. I started this weekly journal with two purposes: partly to promote <em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2279280\/Eldritch_2\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2279280\/Eldritch_2\/\">Eldritch 2<\/a><\/em>, but mostly to hold myself accountable to make some progress each week. The latter hasn&#8217;t been working. I&#8217;ve been procrastinating on this game for months, and making excuses here each week. And it is becoming a burden. So I&#8217;m letting it go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not canceling the game, I&#8217;m not pausing development, and I&#8217;m certainly not pivoting to making a different game. <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> is still the game I want to make. But <em>Eldritch 2<\/em> is and always has been a side project, something I&#8217;ve done for fun in my free time, because I wanted to. And as my free time has dwindled in the past year, it has become less fun. I thought I would spend my holiday working on this; and then it felt like a chore, and I got nothing done, and I felt bad about that. And maybe I was the only person who cared that I wasn&#8217;t getting anything done. But I don&#8217;t need to put that pressure on myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s probably more I could say about burnout and mental health in the video games industry, but for now, I&#8217;ll leave it at this: I started this devlog for my own health, to motivate myself; and I&#8217;m pausing it for my own health, to give myself some room to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take care, love, David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve decided to pause these devlogs. I started this weekly journal with two purposes: partly to promote Eldritch 2, but mostly to hold myself accountable to make some progress each week. The latter hasn&#8217;t been working. I&#8217;ve been procrastinating on this game for months, and making excuses here each week. And it is becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eldritch-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dphrygian.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}