After 2 weeks waiting for the bug to bite, it seems the long running progress on Quantum Star SE Evolved has finally stumbled to a halt. On a regular basis I reach points in time where my attention span on a hobby project will simply drop. As of today, I have not really worked on the code to any great degree for a few weeks, and have instead fallen into a backup cycle of planning the next stage of my plan for world domination of the browser game market…as if. Maybe I’ll have a few epiphany moments – always a sure sign the activity is about to accelerate once more. Anyways, until further notice I will not be actively developing QS. The break may last anywhere between a few weeks to a few months depending largely on what I end up doing as an alternative.

I know folk rarely like hearing such sentiments, but I’m not a machine (unforunately :-)) and I need to take a break from projects to let my brain recharge and come up with some nifty new ideas that will re-ignite my enthusiasm. Watch this blog. The project is not dead, Maug just needs to recharge his QS batteries…

In the meantime having recognised the symptoms I have been casting about for a creative outlet. I’m already committed to a performance management module for ADOdb-Lite (still enthusiastic about finishing that off, just held up by TES IV: Oblivion). I’m also thinking about digging around in my fiction notes and pulling together a storyline to build into a Mod for Oblivion. I’ve been kicking around the Silgrad Tower forums to keep an eye on mod developments – and wondering if it would be too embarrasing to add my thick Wicklow accent to the recently formed Oblivion Voice Actors’ Guild group. Maybe would be embarrasing – as much as I can write decent english, speaking it is quite another thing. Looking on the bright side, the hard to quite recognise as english accent may be useful. It’s certainly unique unless the Guild is swarming with fellow Irish.

Morrowind mod making was something I always regretted missing – but in 2002 I was a mere noob on the bottom of the corporate career ladder with an obligation to work attrocious working hours for peanuts. 4 years later and I’m not about to let the fun slide away. I have stories to tell, and a medium to tell them with. More on the mod scene in later posts no doubt after I get a little working experience with the fiendishly difficult object lists in the TES Construction Set.

On a final note, I have found further confirmation that the legendary BNT mailing list does indeed exist. This sanctuary of all things BNT where admission of new initiates is rumoured to involve the ritual sacrifice of a goat, two chickens and an iguana, is rumoured to be the source of the first Chuck Norris Fact. Chuck’s publicist declined to comment stating, “Chuck Norris doesn’t go on the internet, he has every internet site stored in his memory. He refreshes webpages by blinking.”

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