At the moment I am not actively working on North Star as you already knew. Unfortunately for a while I am also going to have to shelf New Dawn. I know lots of you will be greatly dissapointed at this decision but it's one that has already been made a long time ago by the actions I took. I've taken on far too many things in my free time.
At the moment, I'm practicing my already very good german for at least a good hour a day, continuing to teach myself spanish at least once a week, maintaining small contacts with other beginner Esperantists at least once a week, writing five different stories simultaneously each of which I will eventually have at novel length. Not to mention I'm having a really rough time at home, at school, and in general. I've also been having huge personal problems since about the time I started working on the mod, and all of the hobbies I do really stop me from thinking about those problems, help put the bad memories behind and let me live to some fragment of the same level as everyone else.
So not a brilliant time, but I've been dealing with it. Until now. This year they're giving us far more work than there is an excuse to, and I've been struggling to properly master the essay format after spending so much time on creative writing. I barely failed my first maths mock exam and now my parents are going beserk and trying to make me study more. I missed out on a pass by two percent.
Sound like a decent reason to put things on hold? I think so. I've virtually ported New Dawn X over already anyway, I simply need to implement some bugfixes, work out the porting problems with cubemain.txt, and add any new features I want (which involves learning the new skills files, which I'm only beginning to do. Once I start getting fully competent with them I'll be back to the old magic of doing things with textfiles that makes basic code editing look mediocre. Hoorah!
