Last year was pretty active for me, but not necessarily all good. IRL got in the way of my goals very frequently.

I had to drop my game dev projects multiple times because I couldn’t do some required part of the project (like art assets) or because I couldn’t find the fun in the project or working on it. Also self-doubt, a bunch. At some point I pivoted into working on some tabletop stuff, like a card game based on Silver Daze, because I could test it and get feedback from my circle of TCG friends. Either way, it feels like I can’t meet the goals I put forward for all sorts of reasons.

So this year of 2026 I want to try something different. I read about doing “experiments” instead of goals from this video. As someone who isn’t very goal-oriented and especially in the circumstances I find myself in right now, I don’t see a downside in trying this.

Here’s my plans for January:

  • I’ll start writing notes on a fancy notebook I bought two years ago. It’s very cute and not that big. Forcing myself to deal with my own thoughts instead of watching YT Shorts to muffle them. I’m not confident this will work but here’s the thing, that’s fine! I’ll give it a shot this month, then I can re-evaluate next month if I wanna keep going and what I have learned.
  • Related, I want to catalogue my entire wardrobe in Obsidian, as well as combinations I can use. This will be useful on scouting what clothes I can get rid of and what to buy next. I feel I could express my personality better than I do right now, so I hope this helps.
  • Finally, and a smaller focus, I want to make an itch page for an old card game. It uses assets taken from the internet without permission (random google images) so I’m thinking what I’ll do to deal with this.

Then, here’s the experiments I’ll be saving for later this year. I’ll do these in the next months in some order.

  • I bought two different phone holders to record tabletop footage. I want to record and share gameplay of the many tabletop games I have made, including card games, as well as some other existing games like my Pokémon TCG Cube. I want to share my love of these games, as well as my own work, with Bluesky and Reddit and whoever else. Sharing my work always has me anxious but I need to try anyway.
  • I’ll finish my current internship before April so by then I’ll work on prepping my LinkedIn account and my many resumes for multiple positions I can apply to. The experiment will be learning about and trying to apply for jobs, even though I can’t take the offers because my uni course is yet to be over. If there’s some reasonable way to do that as practice for interviews it would be very nice.
  • The final experiment I have in mind is, somehow, something to help with social anxiety and “sharing my work” anxiety. I’m not sure if this will be joining a hobby group or doing some sort of online workshop or talking to random people on Discord, but it’s something I really need.

I can’t wait to get working on this, as soon as this weekend ends (used it for house maintenance and travel). There’s still a lot of uni work but I’ll have something on my mind even if I can’t work the way I’d want to on a game project or whatever.

I hope to write more often on this blog. Will keep you updated! o7