I ended up in a game jam with a bunch of people taking part in a month long art challenge I joined to push myself a bit (the challenge is not the jam), and I’m currently mid project, acting mainly as writer and project coordinator, and as it has a deadline it will be released at the start of next month, it's looking good.
I’m ALSO with a collaboration I started in February, that is so close to release I am jumping up and down in my seat waiting for the final video to be ready for upload.
The chance to work with these talented artists, musicians, coders, voice actors and generally all around skilled people after having to focus on the day job for a long while has been great, doubly so as I finally took the time to get comfortable with Ren’py, which I will be using a lot more of in future, and opened doors to future projects.
If you have gotten this far in the post then watch this space, I will be on the hunt for collaborators for a visual novel soon, and separate to that I am looking at how best to do a join in/audience participation kinetic novel over on the forums at some point.