First I would like to state that we are not a venture-backed spectacle. We do not have any funding or stakeholders or anything like that. We are
- building things because they are fun.
- shipping things if we feel like it.
- optimizing for joy, craft, and sustainability.
- moving slowly, rethinking, and changing our minds often.
- operating at (and sometimes beyond) our available bandwidth.
If I put only 20 hours per week into the studio, that still adds up to a 60-hour work week for me. I have a day job that pays the bills and consumes most of my time, along with side hobbies—like ESO—that also demand attention.
Given that reality, we’ll be focusing on four main projects for now: Lyric, Novi, Thrifty Tom, and MikoPoker. Everything else will be moved to the backlog or wishlist. Nova will be backlogged for the time being. I originally wanted to build the latest and greatest AI tool, but that isn’t realistic right now. I’m also using Novi every day and genuinely enjoy it. Maintaining two separate development environments doesn’t make much sense, so we’ll instead work toward integrating some of the AI orchestration features originally planned for Nova into Novi. Novi is effectively “little Nova,” and it will be one of our core projects going forward.
All remaining projects—including Magicka Offline and Aeon Prime: Conquest—will be listed on the backlog or wishlist page and clearly marked as vaporware, so there’s no confusion about what currently exists and what does not.
— Michael