Hello, twenty-six.

I’m usually one to get slightly melancholy on birthdays, taking the path of “I’m getting older and could have done so much more with the last year” and driving it straight into the ground, but am actively trying to avoid such thinking this time around. Because it was a good year. I shipped a DS game, was brought on full time with at a company brimming with potential that I love working for. Bible Fight was nominated for a couple of awards and didn’t get my house burned down. I started blogging on a regular basis, a process which has helped greatly with exploring my approach to games and what I want to do next, and got the chance to turn my half of too many conversations in bars about comics into a regular column people seem to like. And of course, I moved in with my girlfriend, which has continued to be totally awesome in all manner of ways. Let someone else have my yearly allotment of regret – I totally won at being twenty-five.

I’m looking forward to this year, having already blessed it by spending the morning listening to Long Blondes and Los Campesinos! at ear-shattering volume (particularly the latter’s ‘My Year in Lists’). I have plans, see. In addition to the two games I’m serving as producer/lead designer on at work, there’s Opportunities For Play, which I sort of outlined over the weekend and should be gearing up next month. Comics Are Expensive should keep rolling along for a good while at Occasional Superheroine, or at least until Val tires of my drunken rambles dirtying up her front page. I’m going to attempt to learn C++, or at least enough to let me put together my own prototypes. All manner of things are on the horizon, with lots of exciting potential ready and waiting to be realized. In the meantime, however, I’m going to enjoy my birthday and look forward the nice dinner with a pretty girl waiting for me at the end of the day.

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