Most of my mental energy these last two months has been spent on a project I have named “The Demon of South Gloria”. It’s a set of puzzles or a game or something. It’s available for free over on Itchy. Over there, I describe it thus:
The Demon Of South Gloria is a puzzle booklet that puts you in the role of a paranormal investigator who has come to a small town region that appears to be in the grip of demonic forces. To figure out how to defeat this evil, you have to solve 13 pages of puzzles.

The puzzles primarily take the form of word search and word jumble puzzles, though there are further twists as the mystery progresses.

Comes in the form of a pdf with 13 pages intended to be printed. Very likely could take more than one sitting to completely solve.

All of that is correct. I really enjoyed making these, and I’ve got ideas for no less than three sequel-type sets of puzzles. The thing is, though, I simply can’t justify working on those right now. I am certain there’s an audience for this sort of thing, but I can’t find it. I went so far as to go to Reddit and make self-promotion posts. That is unlike me. I genuinely don’t enjoy going to parts of the Internet that aren’t my home, let alone drawing attention to myself while I’m there. But still, I believe in these puzzles, so I went to forums (or whatever they are called on Reddit) for people who love puzzles, or love wordsearches specifically, and so on. I tried to draw attention to my work. It hasn’t worked. I get barely any views on these things.

But I don’t feel bad talking about it here on this site. This site also gets barely any views, and those who do come here already know about these puzzles. So I don’t have to feel bad about posting it here. This is for posterity!

Now to just keep reminding myself that no views is actually better than lots of views and no downloads.