Irkalla
ENTP POWWWEEEEEER
It pains me to announce this, but I feel like I ought to instead of being incognito all the time.
I'm leaving Project Civ. The project itself might cease to exist in name, but its work will be carried on by its current members, the individual projects taken on by More Civs. I've mostly outlined my reasons for leaving as follows in the Project Civ Hivemind...
To explain it a bit more without saying too much, I'm having bad troubles with my migraines. I live with an atypical form of migraines -- normally without headache -- which cause me to display symptoms mimicking a stroke, temporarily. It's debilitating while going through it, and I have a "migraine hangover" the next day. They've drastically increased in severity and frequency, so much that it's wearing me down to nothing I feel like. I don't know what to do anymore. I've been taking a cocktail of nicotine, caffeine, diphenhidramine hydrochloride, and ibuprofen to soften them up but I doubt there's anything I can seriously do about them besides live with then... or decide not to.
My old excuse back a few months ago was that I was taking care of my mother after a surgery. After this I managed to get sick with this sort of... "super-flu" that's been making the rounds. I felt I was near death (a small hyperbole), but I was luckier than some others who have collapsed/punctured lungs and the like. Took all my strength to get out of the bed to go to the bathroom and come back.
After this, my grandmother has, to some degree, a stroke. At first, her symptoms appeared grave, but she now is largely back to her old self bar being a little cloudy at times.
Combine this with the financial decline of my family and the shuttering of our family business, and I just don't have anything left to give anymore. I'm not sure where my future will take me, or even if I care to see where it will take me.
A good portion of my time has been spent looking for a job. I held a fairly menial one, but me getting sick threw a wrench in that. Got no hours so I left. I'm still looking. If you're a game designer and you live in Mississippi, you're out of work -- period.
I also, before everything started going to ****, was working on making the next logical move from modding. There's not much to say about it, other than despite these plans being sidetracked, they're still on. This is the door that opens as Project Civ's door closes.
All this said, I've been looking for people to replace me. I think as a team, they can do a good job of making me redundant. I feel like Pouakai is the best "de facto leader" of the team if any of you ever thought of me that way -- for the record, I didn't -- and that of all the people I've evaluated, Sukritact seems to have the necessary skills and frame of mind to handle scripting and coding for the project. If anyone wants to step up, talk to the guys over at More Civs.
I also give all civilization projects over to More Civs, including all assets. I'll be handing over solutions in the coming days and will divest myself of nearly all involvement in the project, save for historical consulting and game design advice and help.
In closing, I'd like to let all you guys know that this isn't the end. For Project Civ, things will largely keep going, and for me, this is just the beginning. You'll hear more from me when the stars are right. This is not an appeal for sympathy. I've made promises to this community, and in some ways I've delivered, but in some ways I have not. It is a source of a bit of disappointment from me, and for this I owe the community an explanation.
Thanks a ton for all the support, and thanks even more to the people who said X or Y couldn't be done. Without you, this project would never have been possible in the first place.
Farewell but not goodbye,
I'm leaving Project Civ. The project itself might cease to exist in name, but its work will be carried on by its current members, the individual projects taken on by More Civs. I've mostly outlined my reasons for leaving as follows in the Project Civ Hivemind...
Project Civ Hivemind said:
To explain it a bit more without saying too much, I'm having bad troubles with my migraines. I live with an atypical form of migraines -- normally without headache -- which cause me to display symptoms mimicking a stroke, temporarily. It's debilitating while going through it, and I have a "migraine hangover" the next day. They've drastically increased in severity and frequency, so much that it's wearing me down to nothing I feel like. I don't know what to do anymore. I've been taking a cocktail of nicotine, caffeine, diphenhidramine hydrochloride, and ibuprofen to soften them up but I doubt there's anything I can seriously do about them besides live with then... or decide not to.
My old excuse back a few months ago was that I was taking care of my mother after a surgery. After this I managed to get sick with this sort of... "super-flu" that's been making the rounds. I felt I was near death (a small hyperbole), but I was luckier than some others who have collapsed/punctured lungs and the like. Took all my strength to get out of the bed to go to the bathroom and come back.
After this, my grandmother has, to some degree, a stroke. At first, her symptoms appeared grave, but she now is largely back to her old self bar being a little cloudy at times.
Combine this with the financial decline of my family and the shuttering of our family business, and I just don't have anything left to give anymore. I'm not sure where my future will take me, or even if I care to see where it will take me.
A good portion of my time has been spent looking for a job. I held a fairly menial one, but me getting sick threw a wrench in that. Got no hours so I left. I'm still looking. If you're a game designer and you live in Mississippi, you're out of work -- period.
I also, before everything started going to ****, was working on making the next logical move from modding. There's not much to say about it, other than despite these plans being sidetracked, they're still on. This is the door that opens as Project Civ's door closes.
All this said, I've been looking for people to replace me. I think as a team, they can do a good job of making me redundant. I feel like Pouakai is the best "de facto leader" of the team if any of you ever thought of me that way -- for the record, I didn't -- and that of all the people I've evaluated, Sukritact seems to have the necessary skills and frame of mind to handle scripting and coding for the project. If anyone wants to step up, talk to the guys over at More Civs.
I also give all civilization projects over to More Civs, including all assets. I'll be handing over solutions in the coming days and will divest myself of nearly all involvement in the project, save for historical consulting and game design advice and help.
In closing, I'd like to let all you guys know that this isn't the end. For Project Civ, things will largely keep going, and for me, this is just the beginning. You'll hear more from me when the stars are right. This is not an appeal for sympathy. I've made promises to this community, and in some ways I've delivered, but in some ways I have not. It is a source of a bit of disappointment from me, and for this I owe the community an explanation.
Thanks a ton for all the support, and thanks even more to the people who said X or Y couldn't be done. Without you, this project would never have been possible in the first place.
Farewell but not goodbye,
