Hey peeps! Were back from our 2-week winter break. Were settling back into the workflows, and everyone has their stuff to work on. Programmers are programming, designers are designing and artists are arting. So I asked the team what they were doing over the winter break. I'll use the names we have on our Discord. Here are some stories. Mat, a Brazillian lost in Croatia, was not prepared for the harsh cold weather of Croatia in December (its summer in Brazil). So after a few attempts of enduring the near-zero temperatures (celsius), he and the missus gave up and focused on making food and playing DnD. Sanduk, a cool weirdo, got inspired by the earthquakes that hit Croatia to draw something related. The stronger quake hit when she was returning from a walk with the dog, and she briefly thought she was causing the shaking, but figured what was going on when plaster started falling down off the walls. Other than that, she made some cookies and cakes, and after 2 years of wanting it, she bought the toaster. Aleluja, the cat wrangler, said her break was boring, but I beg to differ. She cleaned up the chaos in her apartment, finished Red Dead Redemption 2, worked on an EU stop motion project, and spent time learning Swedish! Mycket bra! AlenHR, the effect wizard, is a big drone aficionado and has spent time working on a prototype drone that mixes two types of drone rotor configurations (push and pull for the front and back rotors). It has some benefits for drone size and flight characteristics, but hes not sure if the thing will fly at all. He started kitbashing one up, so I guess well see! MarkoZ, the guy who walks his cat like a dog, learned to make french macarons, and he says he was very successful. Cant wait for the pandemic to end and we start working in a shared office to try them. Kaz, the cowboygirl, spent time working on illustrating a school book and an encyclopedia, drawing dinosaurs and fungi, while listening to Arabic language lessons. She also had fun with her pet slugs and pigeons doing unspeakable things. Not with each other, mind you, individually. Shiv, the bear, is traditionally the one who messes up everything, and he managed to mess up being a blood donor. The needle pierced his vein in a bad way, and now his left arm has a nice rainbow pattern that will last for around 3 months, according to his doctors. Hes still alive but has some trouble sleeping due to the bad arm. We all wish him a speedy recovery. Thankfully it was his left arm, so he can still work (the one thing he did right). <3 Mia, the LARPing dungeon master, spoke of having some gender role reversal in her household, where the gals played Zelda almost every day, while the men were horrified by the fact theyre playing games. Apparently, the men in her house dont know what fun is. MarkoP, yours truly, spent time programming (what a shocker) with the focus on learning OpenGL and having it work alongside a D3D11 renderer, playing board games with friends, and waiting for the next Path of Exile expansion. He also got a vegetable chopper for Christmas, which hes pretty happy about. (weird writing about myself in the third person) Sorry for not having some interesting game news this week. Returning from a 2-week work break does that. All of us have gone back to doing interesting things, so next week should have some stuff to share. If you want to inquire more about any of the things you read here, the whole team is on our Discord server, available for questioning. Im guessing some people might want to ask Kaz some stuff. Sheesh. MarkoP https://store.steampowered.com/app/600610/The_Hand_of_Merlin/