New Year - 2025
I find it hard to believe that I first created this blog two summers ago. Due to this, I cannot quickly reference whether I've been more or less active this year with making paper puzzles. I used to think that I peaked in 2022, but I'm quite proud of many of the ideas I was able to explore this year, especially on the monthly projects. I've released a few huge puzzles and started work on a few large projects, two of which I plan to adapt into games someday and two of which will be ~200-unit collections that may release next year if I continue working on them.
As I get older, I expect to find less time to pursue this hobby, but I'm not quite there yet. Sometimes I wonder if there's a way to make a living off of constructing puzzles, but then I remind myself that I'm not doing it for the money, keeping in the back of my mind the opportunity to set up donations on my itch or to learn a formal programming language that allows making an executable. I also don't intend to spend effort growing my YouTube channel - lately I've been feeding it only the occasional video - as that was almost always how I envisioned the channel to be: a small outlet for my own work that wouldn't be worth trying to monetize.
Of course, I'm still going to take things at my own pace, and I'm not going to stop unless I get overwhelmed daily, which I don't think is happening anytime soon. There's also the possibility of going back to old projects and giving them new polish. For example, I've been recommended recently to add pictures to all my puzzle pages, which I might as well try to do in January, oldest to newest. I also have a backlog of puzzles made since October that I haven't shared here yet due to the series; I'll also try to release those in January, but not all at once.
Anyway, enough yapping about personal stuff. Most of you are here for the puzzles.
2025 is a very special year because it happens to be a square number; the last was 1936 and the next will be 2116. I expect to see lots of big puzzles about this, so I've made one of my own on September 14th to be shared today. Here's to another great year for puzzles!
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