For those of you that have been following the Fishbeat homepage over the course of the past year, I hope this new facelift comes as a welcome change. One of my personal resolutions this year was to finally do the deed that all of us have been avoiding for the past several months: making a new website. Various incarnations of the website in the past have always felt very temporary and for a while we even had the Aleph project page parked in the Fishbeat domain. I’m pleased with the way the website turned out this time and I think we’ll be sticking with it for a while.

One of my other resolutions was to start blogging more often. A lot of cool stuff happens in this basement that doesn’t ever see the light of day, but no more! Over the next few months we’ll be posting several articles related to design, tech, music and whatever else happens to interest one of us for long enough to write about it. I personally have a lot of information about the Lua-based Fishbeat scripting engine and tools that we’ve developed that I’d like to share, so keep an eye open for those!

Not only has the new year brought about a new Fishbeat website, it’s also brought about a change in personnel. Our team size was recently halved from eight to four while we make this transition from one project to the next. Working with everyone on Aleph over the past year has been a real pleasure and I’m sad to see them go.

At the moment, for the first time in a while, we are not currently developing a game. The next few months are going to be busy for us, but relatively uneventful in the grand scheme of things, as we do some maintenance and housecleaning on our engine in preparation for future projects. I hope this will also be a good opportunity for us to connect with those of you reading this and to catch up on the Fishbeat happenings that have taken place over the past year.

Here’s to a new year full of creative independence and financial stability!

-z