Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25881556-20171217124902/@comment-31763506-20180218002442

I've actually been using my TLS addiction (and other video games in general) as a way of not dealing with some personal issues that really need to get taken care of, so I feel the need to step away from the project for a while, at least until I can make some progress on that front.

Among other things, I need to get back into the workforce, do something to bring my weight under control (I'm getting sick of the US Geological Survey livetweeting the seismic readings when I go out for a walk), and finish a personal writing project that's been dominating my creative energy for the last 5 years or so, but which my perfectionism has been keeping in a state of permanent incompletion.

Going through the investment list and now this have brought into sharp relief that the long term depression that got me into my current rut isn't keeping me from doing valuable work any more, and I really can't justify putting most of my mental energy into a smutty cookie cutter JRPG. Even if it is the "Citizen Kane" of smutty cookie cutter JRPGs.

As to the project though...

FWIW, however, the "back end" portion is basically done. It was just a matter of building a table structure parallel to the one in RPG Maker. Depending on the software to be used, there may be some robust relationship definitions or some refinement of the data types and and column names, but most of the to do stuff is clearly in the presentation layer.

I don't know how effective a tutor in the front end portions of Access or Base I can be, partly because it's been a very long time since I worked with Access professionally and I know nothing about Base, so I've been largely making it up as I go along myself.

Hope this disjointed rambling makes some sort of sense...