1.8.0.2, fixes, and the future of The Hayseed Knight!

Hey everyone!

How have you been these last few months? Me, I've been enjoying my new-found freedom after 7 years obsessing over my project. I quit a 5-year-long job that had caused me massive burnout, and I've been trying to just learn how to exist again. I spent some time in USA with friends, I've been practicing different painting styles, I've been streaming a lot of fun games on twitch, and I've taken up singing lessons again.

The Hayseed Knight was born in therapy, in a space between jobs and finding a new life, and it's in this moment between calm and uncertainty that I find the most fertile breeding grounds for creativity. I'm not the kind of person who does well under pressure to tell you the truth, so I hope I can keep this peace moving forward.

On to the meat of the announcement!

1.8.0.2 was a rather small update to fix typos and a couple silly mistakes here and there, add hints to clarify how to get all the endings... and also to update all my socials to MaxiMJdev. Sandra took me here, and I'm very grateful, but I'm ready to start moving forward as Maxi Molina everywhere. 

I'm planning a 1.8.1 update once I can figure out how to (or more likely find someone to help me) update a few custom functions I use so that they work with Ren'py 8 as it uses Python 3. That would also supposedly make it work with steam deck! I don't own one so I can't check, alas.

And lastly, but not least importantly: I've started working on the next THK-related project. I don't want to pressure myself for now, so I'm keeping it vague! I will let you know more about it when the time comes.

I love the world of Dakhná and the characters I created, and there are a lot of things I want to do with them in years to come. Look forward to all of them!

I hope you have a wonderful and queer June,

Maxi