October 24th Weekly Update

That is perfectly fine - I find that most (good) games take at least two years to cook, and that is assuming if you had a paid team.  Divine Dawn is probably more a passion project than a commercial one, especially since this seems to be your first project beyond modding.    This game is a sort of crossroads for you as a creator, since many questions would have to be answered.   "How much time and money do I want to spend like this?", "Would writing a book be better than coding a game?", "What kinds of game mechanics interest me?", and so on.

Anyhow.   IIRC, a big part of game development is not just making things, but destroying them.  About 80% of the development time apparently goes into systems and assets, while the other 20% is the actual content.  Mechanics being what they are, essentially are living creatures that have to be born, bred, and replaced by a better generation that gels more naturally with what you intend.   On the plus side, the lessons learned will likely translate to future projects in a cleaner form.  Kinda like how to make a readable novel, you have to abandon stuff to focus on what you learn to be important.

Most of the ideas that I put forward are going to need surgery if they are going to live.  Hoping for the best, but expecting a terminal outcome.

Ah OK. Honestly, my first though when I saw pink goof was "Qum!!! Oh wait, that's a different game..." and I was trying to figure out who the goof might be, because MC's got a LOT of goofs that hang around him! Haven't replayed it recently so wasn't aware of new character yet (note to self, replay to see all new fun stuff, now that crazy period is over). Given how many "say first, THEN think" people the MC either has or will have, I'm half expecting a scene where the MC wanders off in a huff because he's frustrated with all the think-last people and someone has to find him!