One year later

Ok so maybe not one whole year but pretty darn close and eleven and a half months just didn't have the same ring to it.  Longer post warning: Skip to end for summary. 

I have been MIA for quite some time now and for that I honestly am sorry.  About eight months ago I was in a bad car accident.  A drunk driver in his big pickup truck smashed into a cute little mini-coop I was in.  It was really bad.  Thankfully I survived (obviously) but I still haven't recovered fully.  It's difficult for me to type while using my right hand.  If I type for more than 20 minutes or so, my hand starts to hurt.  Considering The Verse is a text based game, I decided months ago to let the project go.

But even still I would occasionally check the blog and different websites it was linked from.  Even almost a year later people are checking for updates and sending me emails asking if I'm still working on it.  I hate goodbyes so I was really hoping ya'll would move onto the next big shiny thing but a lot of you just haven't.  I'm simply amazed that so many of you are still even thinking about my little game.  So yesterday I finally responded to one of those emails to ask one question: Why?

That "crazed fan" (his words, not mine!) managed to respond in such a way that just hit home in so many ways.  He reminded me about what I wanted this game to become and what it meant to me.  Hell I can remember a bunch of nights in that damned hospital bed thinking about my silly little game and how much I wished I had a stupid stimpack.  I survived a life-threatening crash and I was thinking about a stupid adult text adventure game.  How retarded does that make me?  So after I finished talking to that "crazed fan" I was determined to finish my game even if I have to do the whole damned thing left handed. 

That being said, I contacted another author who is going to be co-authoring The Verse with me.  Co-authoring is putting it mildly as he's most likely going to be the one physically writing most of it while I "direct" what happens.  He was actually the first fan I responded to since the accident as he was asking for my advice on his game.  He let me "alpha" test his game and I was very impressed with his work.  He's definitely a better writer than me and muuuuuuch better at programming than me.  I have very high hopes with us working together on this project. 

I will be making update posts here on our progress and I will make a set schedule for it.  I'm not sure if it will be weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly yet but there will be a schedule.  Once we have some more time to really review what we already have and what needs to be done, I'll make a post on our immediate game plan.

So to sum it up:  I'm working with a co-author and we are working on The Verse reboot.  I will make another post most likely within a week about our gameplan and exactly how things will progress.