Approaching Ridiculous Space Battles demo release!

Oh my god, the release of this game has always seemed to be some far off nebulous thing in the future and now I go into Early access with Ridiculous Space Battles NEXT MONTH. Argghhh. To put that into perspective, the last time I released a ‘new’ game was Democracy 4 and that was (checks steam…) January 2022. OVER FOUR YEARS. Oh my god what happened? Well the short answer is that this happened: I built a solar farm, and it took forever, and it was stressful, but its mine and I love it :D. But also, Democracy 4 was a huge project, and also frankly a very successful one, and there was absolutely no urgent need for me to release another game any time soon. Also…I am 56, which sounds insane to me, but I am 11 years from retirement…and if I smugly retired properly at 60, I am only FOUR years from retirement. In other words, I am able, very fortunately to be slowly winding down the rate at which I make games, or at least commercial ones. But anyway, after I finished the solar farm, I…