I've had some rest now, and my mind state has returned from "gibbering maniac" to "crackpot eccentric" (my usual state of mind), so I hope I didn't post anything too insane while bits of my brain were malfunctioning. At least it wasn't as bad as crunch time last year where my brain forgot how to read English...

Last night I played a bit of "Pierre and the Fish" without the stress, and while I feel a bit self-conscious promoting my own work; the game did end up a lot of fun. I ended up playing for ages trying to beat my high score. There's a bunch of little details that I'd like to fix over the course of the next week (at a leisurely pace), then I'll release a final version.

However, I'm pleased to discover that "Pierre and the Fish" actually satifies my objectives for Project Nova and game development in 2005, which was to release a fun game to the public that I'm happy with. Consequently Project Nova is now redundant, and I'll stop working on it (frankly I was getting sick of it; the abstract graphics aren't as fun to me as those cutesy bitmaps). Instead I'll spend some time this week planning for my next stage, which I haven't decided on yet. I'm going to slightly tweak the plan I came up with at the start of this journal to see if I can come up with something more appropriate. The goal now is to work towards my objective for 2006; to sell a game.

If there's any comments for things you like about "Pierre and the Fish", or little things that I could do to improve it for the final release (the game certainly isn't perfect), then I'd be happy to read them.
Addition: Just thought: is the GD Showcase the right sort of place for the final version?