Hello Annulus fans,

I've been pretty blown away at the positive feedback I've gotten on this game over the years, so I think it's only right to explain my disappearance and to also announce my future plans.

Dude, where have you been?

My life took a big turn to say the least. I got married to the greatest woman in the world and we had a truly beautiful son. Around the same time, I also started on the first steps of my career as a Custom Home Designer. My skills in designing video games easily transferred over to designing houses, but to learn a new career took all of my brain power. I decided that to learn these new skill and care for a baby, I had to put down my dream of designing video games.

This was hard...I got pretty depressed from having to put my dream aside and I felt the "imposter syndrome" in my new career. Being a dad is great though. We are expecting a daughter in august too.

Fast forward a few years, and I developed this modpack for a certain WiiU game. I called it "The Legend of Samus: Breath of the Wild". It got Best Mod of 3 Months on Gamebanana and it received a ton of attention and downloads. This inspired me to go ahead and continue my work as a game dev. There's no reason I can't at this point. I now know how to design houses and my son is 2 so I now have time to code. I can pursue my dream again!

So what now??? 

I'll tell you what! I've decided to rebuild Annulus from the ground up and actually complete the game. The game is already fun, but good gosh the code is done terribly and the graphics could be a little better. I've taught seminars on coding and helped others make games and even won 3rd place in one of the largest game competitions in the world. So to look at my very first project and try to make sense of it, is just silly. I can do better than this. I can finally finish Annulus the right way. It'll take a while, but I already have the player character set up and I'm now working on getting the enemies in there. Then it's just a matter of building out the game. 

I'll be posting more devlogs again, but this time a little different. Instead of spending a bunch of time on marketing and recording the development of the game as it's happening, I'll be releasing smaller showcase videos of the features after they've been implemented. This will give me more time to focus on developing a great game. I also will only be releasing the final build instead of putting out regular updates. I believe that the current version released is a great way to experience what the game will be like, but that the final version should be enjoyed for all that is has to offer. 

If you made it this far, thank you for reading my (shortened) life story. I can't wait to start showing you guys what I've been working on. I'm having to hold back on just saying it right now. Showing is better than telling, so stay tuned for updates.

 - TheOnlyQuarry