Well, it’s that time again. Setting new goals. I squeezed 2025’s goal in during winter break,¹ breaking a two year failure streak.

Despite having kind of accomplished it (two days after the deadline), I don’t feel any more accomplished than when I didn’t achieve the goal of previous years. I’d say that the goals aren’t particularly motivating, but I think it actually worked for this one. Not sure why that victory ended up feeling so hollow.

Anyway, these goals tend to be whatever I’m feeling like working on at the time, which I think is part of the problem. Right now, after having hit the publish button on Four Block Flow, I’m feeling like going to sleep.

Still, there are some projects that keep sputtering along that I haven’t made good progress on. To help with that, I’m going to set two goals for myself:

1. Make a few more rooms for HodgePodge.

This should be relatively easy. I did do a few of these earlier in 2025.² They can be as big or as small as they need to be.

2. Finish another dungeon crawler.

I’m not being particularly picky here—Relics would count. I’ve meant to enter the Dungeon Crawler Jam again for the past two years, but I always end up devoid of motivation when it comes around. The goal isn’t to actually make something for that, although it’d certainly count if I did.

That’s It?

These are light goals. Notably, Relics was something that I called out as not counting for my big game goal last year. It’s not a science, and with how my whims and motivation are fickle, I’m not sure that grand goals help me. They occasionally make me feel guilty about working on other projects, which isn’t ideal, and I’m not sure they actually help me work on what I want to work on.³

This was a weird, melancholic post after hitting publish on FBF. I guess I’m feeling the end of my vacation coming up.