My plans
I want to daydream a little and share the plans that are on my mind. Will I accomplish them? Not sure. Is it worth it? I don't know. Do I enjoy doing this? Definitely yes!
Combining this with a full-time job is very hard. And it will take a lot of time in any case.
But as they say:
It's a marathon, not a race
Cedar Clerk
Finish the main work on my blog platform, test it out on a couple of friends and gradually promote it. Maybe it will bring in a few dollars. But I don't want to devote too much attention to it — after all, it was originally a tool for personal needs.
Game design document
As soon as I'm done with the clerk, I'll start rewriting and moving the game design document of Cedar Station from Notion, and I'll FINALLY start talking about it!
YouTube channel
I want to try to finish the intro video by the end of the summer. I've already started editing, but compressing 2 hours of footage into 10-15 minutes is very hard. Considering there are like 10 takes of the same words, but in different places.
Growing the audience
Start slowly growing the audience, running A/B tests of the GDD, collecting opinions and criticism. That's why I added a system of reactions and comments to the site.
At the time of writing this post I have a whopping 76 subscribers on my Telegram channel! I'm incredibly happy that anyone is interested in me at all.
Besides that, recently I started occasionally posting on Threads, I still keep running Twitter, Instagram
Income
Of course, I want to somehow earn money from what I do. Ideally, I'd like to reach at least $50 in income somehow by the end of the summer. I'm still thinking about how. Because, honestly, I've gotten myself into quite a serious adventure, and it's all VERY EXPENSIVE, and I'd like to start recouping something somehow.
For now you can only support me on Ko-Fi, and I just set up the Tribute bot
If by some miracle I manage to earn something, then I'll have to set up an LLC and officially register a company. That would be easier and better in every sense. I'LL BE A BUSINESSMAN!
Developing Cedar Station
Keep making the game! Make a plan for creating a vertical slice, so that I can show at least something by the end of the year.
Dreams and fantasies
My dream is to rent a small booth at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, where I can show the game to real people in real life. Unfortunately, I 100% won't manage to make anything in time for this year's expo.
The perfect plan
Make the game
Grow-grow-grow the channel, social media and my brand
???
PROFIT
And now the main question of the day:
HAVE I LOST MY MIND DOING SUCH AMBITIOUS THINGS ALL ALONE?
Write comments, criticism, thoughts, ideas. Every response from you matters to me! :3
Stay tuned
P.S. By the way, I run a lot of social media. So you don't lose track of me and don't get confused, here's a link to the list of my accounts
