I Swear I'm Not Dead

So development has been slow. For one, I haven't WANTED to code, and if I don't wanna code, ain't any coding getting done. On top of that I'm starting up a Twitch.TV stream, which has eaten up a lot of my time, along with a rekindled interest in StarCraft Brood War. Add that to a work schedule, keeping up with friends and playing in men's football (soccer for you memers) leagues, my free time to code is more or less non-existent. That doesn't however mean that I won't be working on it. Only a portion of writing an application is actually sitting down and typing code and troubleshooting, another portion is design, which I'm awful at but I enjoy more, and thinking up elegant solutions to problems so that the code you've written doesn't need to be constantly rewritten to accommodate new features. I'm sure anyone who's done programming, both hobbyists like myself and professionals, understand this.

In any case, I'll probably resume programming within the next 2 weeks when my schedule calms down a little bit, and I'll be leaving the job I have now, replacing it with a part-time job while I start attending school again. Hopefully I'll have some sort of schedule figured out and regular updates can start being posted on this blog.

Thanks for reading, I really hope I can get this out to you guys soon. Also, ZT2 fans / programmers, do you want me to release the source code? I've considered making this open-source for the sake of allowing more talented programmers in the community to take what work I do and improve and iterate upon it, but I'd be interested to see if there's actually any interest. Let me know with a comment or answer the poll in the sidebar!

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