OCTOBER 2025

Welp, got some bad news bears. I wasn’t able to finish the Zelda RPG in time before Age of Imprisonment. My heart just isn’t in the project right now so I decided to put the whole thing on hold. I’m going to aim for a 2026 release now, but specifically when I can’t say, as I think I need some distance from the project in order to get back into it.

I think part of the burnout is the stress I’ve been feeling this month, which really sucks cuz October is usually my favorite month and halloween is my favorite holiday, but I couldn’t enjoy any of it because of the EVERYTHING.

However, I’ve taken some steps to address my mental health. I got myself a new doctor, one that’s closer to me and I finally got a refill on my anti-depressants. The past week there has been a positive difference, but I still feel so burnt out creatively it’s been difficult to get myself to work on anything. So when I get in these slumps I go back to working on my website, which has seen a massive overhaul visually.

I want my website to feel like something from the early internet, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I also uploaded more of my material on there including the final chapter of Mighty Machine Breaks the Lockdown and the first 3 parts of Garage Mechs.

I’ve also been writing a lot of non fiction. Seeing such turmoil in the world I’ve been thinking alot about morality and how we need a different take on what moral behavior and ideology should be, since the framework of ‘good vs evil’ has done nothing but be counter productive. The problem with binary morality, as in labeling everything as either good or bad and the bad needs to be purged at all costs, is that it makes it too easy for individuals to see themselves as the good guys and blind themselves from all the bad they’re doing.

So I’ve been doing a lot of philosophical writing in order to crystalize a new system of morality, one that I want to teach my daughter to better equip her for the broken world she’s inheriting. You may start to see this theming in all of my new works going forward from this point on, as I believe stories are the ultimate way of transmitting ideas.

I don’t know what I’m going to do for the remainder of the year. Gonna keep playtesting the mech SRPG, gonna count down the days until Kirby Air Riders, maybe work on another youtube video, idk man.

~A very burnt out Eli.