Happy Birthday, Singillatim!

[singmod]

Happy Birthday, Singillatim!

Hey, Interlopers! Your (very kind and not terrible at all) Head Mod Cheryl here!

I know it's still July, but there's a lot to get to right now and I figured I'd get ahead of the curve with dropping this a few days early on my day off.

August begins the start of Singillatim’s first year anniversary, with the first ever Test Drive Meme going up this time last year and the game’s opening on September 1st. This time last year, I was working hard on trying to get a game up off the ground — something I'd never done before! I've been in DWRP (and LJRP) for some fourteen years now and whilst I've found my home in games created by others, manning my own game was something I didn't think I'd be able to do.

But I gave it a shot, I had an idea and I went with it and tentatively put out the idea in February last year. I got a lot of feedback/thoughts and it helped me to shape and plan things in getting things put together — I even decided to put in an Ogopogo-esque character because Laus mentioned it.

It’s unreal that the game’s been going for almost a year now, with Singillatim being a work in progress since like... 2021? And now we're a year in to it which is honestly just wild to me. I'm delighted and very humbled how much people have been so enthusiastic and receptive to the game — and have really gotten their teeth stuck in to things in the last year. It's been an absolute joy to see what players get up to in the game and how they've ran with things.

Thank you to everyone who's been a part of it. Thank you for having fun here. Y'all are good beans and I appreciate you all. The last year's been A Time with RL upheaval/health things, and I've really appreciated your patience and understanding when I've had to dip a little with things, or taken a little longer to get things up.

Thank you especially to my helper mods Jhey, Chase and Noodle for stepping up to help me run the game smoothly so I wasn't overburdening myself with duties, and also helping me bounce ideas around and all the rest. You guys are utterly fantastic and I'm really glad you've been around the last year.

I do have a small favour to ask y'all. Singillatim is very much my passion project, but it's the players that make the game. I do listen to feedback, ideas, questions, etc. from players and I really wanna hear back on some feedback from player experiences so far in terms of events and things (and also I'm a stickler for a google form, don't @ me).

I've created a survey, if you wouldn't mind taking a few moments out of your day to fill this out for me — I'd really appreciate it!

We're a year in, and we've still got plenty to go. Who knows what'll happen next?

Maybe beach. Maybe.

Thanks again, guys.

Cheryl ❤