Thursday, December 31, 2015

Summary of 2015 & happy new year to all of you

Looking back at what happened this year, it truly was the worst year of our lives.
It's not like one or two catastrophes, all of this year was pretty dark and depressing.
But we're not depressed, we managed to overcome all obstacles, and we're alive and well, yet all these things caused us to go through a lot of sad moments, and also some events cost us a lot of money.

This year, nearly all our equipment and property broke.
At the beginning of january my notebook broke down, as well as my car.
Fixing all of it (well, fixing the car and buying a new notebook) was very expensive, but we managed to pay bills.

During the course of the year, nearly all our team members had to buy new computers, since for whatever strange reason this bad-luck-streak decided that all our computers had to break this year...
Cres didn't buy a new computer yet, but the past 3 months her machine is acting up and it's very likely that she needs to buy a new computer at the beginning of 2016.


But what was really depressing this year, was losing valuable family members, and attending their funerals...
My mum died in january 2015, my grandma in july 2015.
Attenting those funerals also cost us a lot of money (since we had to travel quite some distance), and of course it caused us to lay down our work for a couple of days...

At the end of the year, Cres got into a fight with her family.
It really went out of hand, the summary of what happened is:
Her family wanted to force her to stop being an artist.
They also tried to force a lot of other things upon her, and tried to destroy what she build up in the last couple years.
And no, it was not the usual "we only want the best for you" situation.
In fact they wanted to force her to stop working on stuff, and rather take care of household work and foster her grandparents and mother.
It was a very selfish act of her family, and they refused to listen to her, they ignored her opinion, her thoughts and her plans for the future, and simply wanted to force their own values on Cres.
Furthermore Cres discovered, that her family had been manipulating and sabotaging friendships and other relationships of her all these years, simply to force her to stay at home.
And that's when Cres decided it's best to leave it all behind and break contact with them forever.

Discovering this was really shocking and depressing but as always it's better to know the truth.
Furthermore, moving places required Cres to give up on her dog as well.
2015 certainly wasn't easy on us...
But as I said before, we're doing fine, we've overcome things, and we managed to hold our ground.



There were also a couple good things in 2015, but they were small in number, but still there was something good.
After my mum passed away, I was able to get on good terms with my dad.
He completely changed during the past year, and I'm happy this happened, though I wish my mum would have lived to see this as well.

Also our webcomic became quite successful, and the story went along nicely.
Furthermore we gained a lot more fans and supporters.

Thank you very much to everyone who's supporting us!
Thanks to your help and support, we're able to continue doing what we're doing.
Thank you!

Let's hope that 2016 will be a lot better!
We all wish you a happy new year, and we wish you all the best for the new year.
See ya in 2016!

7 comments:

  1. Best of Wishes for this year to you all.

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  2. Hi Wolf, i have a question for you. ^^
    which software uses you for working on ldh or other game ?

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  3. Best of luck to both of you for this year. I know things will be fine for you both. I have been following this blog since before paperheads was even named, and Cres is one of, if not, my favorite artists. I've also been on your $20 patreon donation list since it started. I will continue to do so, as I have always enjoyed the work you both do. Thanks for everything, and best wishes for this year.

    -KaiZoegret, in case it doesn't get posted (as I don't have a blog or anything atm ;3)

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    1. Thank you very very much!
      I'm glad you love Cres' Art, she really puts a lot of effort into it and it's nice to hear she has some loyal supporters.

      We hope you (and everyone else!) is having good luck this year as well, and of course best wishes for this year too!

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  4. I hope 2016 is better on you guys, i'm lucky enough to have a supportive mother.

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