This promises to be an exciting autumn.

Not in a "whiz, bang, boom" World War III "the Chinese are marching west, everyone to the barricades!" sort of way (one hopes; I have absolutely nothing against the Chinese, but let's face it: if every man, woman, and child in China picks up a harvesting scythe - or whatever it is that farmers use these days - and decide that there's fun to be had in our direction, we're screwed), but personally and professionally exciting.

Yes, I'm being narcissistic again, but what do you expect from a guy who's got his own name.dot.com website? Humility? Pft.

So in addition to working on two very different games - TLJ.s and the super-ultra-top-secret Project NBT - and tinkering a bit (in the dark hours and on weekends) with the story and design for the follow-ups to both of them - yes, Virginia, we are very much hoping and planning to embark on a third (and quite likely final) Journey, and you might have read my (short, guarded, cryptic) comments regarding a project entitled Miracle - I'm also working on a couple of non-game-related projects that I have great hopes for.

I have, of course, been working on said non-game-related projects for quite some time with nothing much at all coming to fruitition, and I don't necessarily expect (or even plan) for that to change before the end of the year. There's only so much one man can do (unless you're Superman, and even then you have that whole secret identity thing to keep up, which is just so time consuming). My number one priority - above all others; normal life and my sanity included - is the next Journey. Christmas is a big, huge (internal) milestone for us, and it's my firm intention for that milestone to be absolutely rock'n'roll. And after that, there's E3, and after that....well, there's certainly no shortage of work. My number two priority is to meet similar (though probably not simultaneous) deadlines for project number two. And after that - hopefully there will be time for everything else. Including the personal-and-private stuff.

But we'll see. I'm a young man with my whole life (minus thirty-plus) before me. I'm not worried (except about the Chinese and those scythes; us Westerners really do deserve a good hiding for screwing up the world, and our karma has just about run dry). I believe in options and a full slate. Everything else is just deadly dull.  ¶ 13:26