I continue to work on bringing a non-violent card game adventure to the world, titled: “Nethermost”. A story of transcending beyond the lowly drudge of our limiting beliefs, that we often assume is the only way our life could be.
Part I: https://medium.com/@jaronfund/nethermost-a-spiritual-indie-dev-log-2667afb3d977
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Creating this video game has been one of the most challenging things I have done in my life. Moving into a new apartment I found myself actively working on it for hours on end, every day I could. Through days of trail and error programming education, and spending a bit more time with my pixel art, I was able to make a fairly interesting UI and card design.
Making this post was quite an achievement for me, because it felt like I was finally able to make a completely original game from scratch, without having to borrow anyone’s artwork, programs, or music. However, the only person excited for the release of this game, seems to just be me. A running joke in the indie dev community is creating extremely ambitious expectations for the release of a game, only to have it sell a few copies. This apparently makes people lose their desire to do anything creative again, and simply live the life of a hikikomori , completely isolating themselves from everyone due to a perceived failure.
This type of thing I use to do as well, and is the reason for the title of my game “Nethermost”. By being in the lowest point of my life, I realized how it was all a story I was telling myself, and how little I got out of living that dark fantasy in my head. Since getting into spirituality, a variety of viewpoints came into my purview. One such, was to aim towards the highest desire that can be imagined.
In doing so, you never assume that your endeavor will turn out to be a failure or worthless, but instead keep in mind the shining inevitability that it will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. This is despite all probability of past releases in the video game market, that have not made it on the radar of the average consumer.
So I do my best to hold the vision of glory in my mind’s eye. And remember that whatever actually happens will be for the best. If I start to assume a reality where my game is, once again, released with hardly anyone playing it, then my work seems to suffer as a result. I just have to assume that it will find the most amount of people it can, so it can change the lives of those people it finds. In the simultaneity of my expectation, that it will be the next Stardew Valley, I cannot afford to lower my vibration if it becomes another underwhelming indie dev dream.
So as usual, my focus spreads itself among many different endeavors. I enjoy creating animations, spiritual podcasts, and spending a copious amount of time in meditation. Only recently, did I have a dream where I was told to “talk more with Extraterrestrials”. By doing so, in meditation, I received an overwhelming amount of positive energy. They make it seem as though I could live the life I desired, without necessarily having to work hours on end, everyday, on the computer. No matter what my dream is, they positively reinforce the manifestation of that dream, and inform me that it will be so.
While, I have always had my spiritual work widely available, it seems like the interest grows a lot more when you tell people that the information you are giving them, is from a much higher conscious source. Indeed, as I start to channel information from entities, things seem to shift towards interesting directions. There was once a time where I cringed at the idea that I would need to “channel” in order to expand my life in new directions, but now I see it as another avenue in which spirituality can be adequately relayed to people. Truly, if one understands that they don’t necessarily need anything to be in a high vibration (aka happy), then the freedom to express or be anything you like, becomes a lot easier.
I am thrilled to see any number of these endeavors unfold to a wider audience, and yet I know that all things are as they need to be. I create only when I sense the excitement to do so, and leave everything else up to the bliss of simply being a human. In that, often times all notions of worldliness seem to vanish in a single moment, and I feel totally at home. A type of exuberance that erases every ounce of negativity, as the center of being glides into the paradise of existence. I trust you find it as much as possible!
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