I am aware the State of the Game did not come out this week. I appreciate the contacts reaching out to me, making sure everything is ok. The State of the Game has really become a canary for the state of me. When one becomes missed, it’s understandable it would cause concern.

But never fear, I am ok.

The past couple of weeks have held a lot in them for me. I have had to make some tough choices, evaluate myself and my performance, and look at the path forward. With that, I feel I need to make some changes in my life that will affect some of the way you are used to interacting with me.

I will not be continuing the State of the Game on a weekly basis. I will post news and announcements to the blog when I feel there is something to announce. The mandatory weekly update has long out lived it’s usefulness for actually reporting what has happened and has become an unfun chore for me.

I will not be proceeding with mandatory monthly updates. Each update will come as a concise package, without incremental steps towards a long term goal. Instead, you will get full, tested, and ‘as-designed’ features in each release. If this happens to line up monthly, that is great. If not, you will be able to anticipate the release date from my announcements on the blog.

I will no longer make it my personal mission to respond to every thread on the forums. I might not even read all of them any more.

I will ALWAYS respond to Contact Us requests. While I try for a 24hr turn around, it might be up to 3 business days during busy times.

For some of you that have been around a long time, this statement and tone might be a bit out of character. I think I have just done a very good job of hiding some of the tolls that working on MAV has taking on me. This is an effort to reduce some of those burdens, regain some of my family life, and prepare for a long term life of this. Doing what I was doing before was not sustainable (mentally or physically) and for me to make this my full time life I needed to make some adjustments.