There definitely will be. I was just replying to a message Crazy sent me, the crux of it is, both for this mod and his, we've both had it pretty damn rough lately. Not going to go into his stuff because that's probably too personal and it's really on him if he wants to talk about it, but on my end, I've been having a lot of health and financial trouble.
Health-wise, my concussion symptoms aren't really going away. They've gotten more managable in that I know mostly what's going to set them off, and it takes a bit longer to get a raging headache and bad dizziness and nausea, but the severity has plateaued, and now it's backtracked a bit with the bloodpressure med the doc put me on that he said was supposed to help. It actually makes the headaches, dizziness, and depression worse. It also makes me so tired that my day is full of short naps, and I have to force myself to get out and do things. I've got a gym membership now to keep myself active, and I really had to do that, because I've gained like 60 lbs since my injury, and I was already a big guy. It actually helps a bit just day to day, and it helps with the depression and forcing myself to do things, but the down side is I have to go late at night or early morning so I can get my buddy up there to turn off or down the music, and even with that, I've got a guaranteed massive headache. On top of that, I've had to fight with the insurance company delaying my checks the past couple months as an anti-fraud measure.
My head woes aside, I've really enjoyed that more people wanted to get into the code and see what they might do and whats there, and how many people have been enjoying my version. It's definitely a kick in my rear and a great motivation to keep working on it, even though I'm having trouble writing at the moment. One thing I really have to do that's going to take me a long while is sit down and update my copy to .29, which is two versions up. That's no small thing, because I have stuff all over the place in the code, and I have to figure out A) If a file is one I haven't altered, and thus can just be transferred, or B) if it has been altered in a small way that let's me copy/past/replace the new code in, or C) if it's too extensive either on the end of my mod or the main mod, and thus I have to go in line by line and copy/past/replace my text into the new files. It's a time consuming, tedious, painful process to be honest, and a labor of lust. I really want to get up to that point though because I'd like to get some of the new film stuff going, and I'm very, very slowly working out the ponygirl stuff for the new job Crazy plans to work on when he's able to get back. That's going to be a bit of a first, you'll notice, because I'm going to try to keep to the template I've been advocating, and this is the first job I'll be attempting that with. (I haven't been able to do that at all for the Bad Man Version, because those jobs are written, I'm just making minor edits and replacing text) I'd also like to finally fix the Puppygirl job in both versions. I've tweaked it in my version to make all the scenes fire, but I'd like to really get on that and not leave it half-done. You guys might get a few more scenes out of that, including some that I've not written yet. If it comes down to it, and the ponygirl stuff goes over well, I'd really like to do a rewrite of the puppygirl stuff. I like the long stories, but I'd like them to be a little more random, like each week you get a longer story like that, but you also get a template written text following the template I have advocated for.
A quick final note: Though I've had a lot of trouble sitting down and writing because of my head and the stress I've been under, I've also been getting a lot of inspiration for a variety of places. I troll through tumblr blogs and get ideas from stories there, and pictures, and most recently, I've been getting a lot of ideas for both my mod and Crazy's over at a text game called Free Cities. There really is something for most people in that game, there are a LOT of options, you can play good or evil, and you get a lot of ways to play both. Give it a look, maybe you'll get some inspiration too. And if you guys playing with the code write something particularly good and you don't want to start your own mod, send it my way. I'd love to take a look at it, and it might be part of a future Bad Man version, either as is or inspired by.
