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Oct 01, 2025 11:23 pm
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Release Date / Proof of Life
Today while taking inventory of my time and what's left to finish up the update, I think I can say with some degree of confidence that
I should be able to release the Alpha build in two weeks. So two weeks from today being Oct 15th.
In the past this much time between updates would mean a pretty big update, but unfortunately I can't say the same about this one. This amount of content in this update should have been able to be completed in two months time. I'm sorry for the circumstances that almost ground my production to a halt, and for my emotional state that I couldn't just keep working through it. I'm sorry that those circumstances made communicating with all of you almost as hard for me as developing the game. I'm especially sorry to Strenif, Most of you probably know that he's been more of the face for AFV than I have for a while. He renders images, writes scripts, storyboards, and all of this is just volunteer work. He's been out there on discord, F95, and elsewhere, trying to defend me as a developer but has been almost as much in the dark as all of you.
I wish I could say that everything is better now and everything is going to go back to how it was, but the truth is that I'm still kind of recovering from the emotional trauma I've recently gone through. Most of those elements that caused that trauma are still present in my life
(you can't escape family), but for now they seem to be moving in a more positive direction and I've been figuring out how to deal with them in a healthier way. So I have reason to feel hopeful that things will stabilize and my production can go back to normal again.
I know people think I'm just getting burnt out with AFV, and for a while I thought maybe I was too. But really I think I was just getting burnt out with life in general and AFV was the casualty of that burnout since it's production lives in my free time. It's really hard to make free time productive when you're down and feeling depressed. So, I'm not burnt out with AFV. I still love AFV, and I love where we are in the story and I'm so excited that we're finally getting to the best parts that we've been working so hard to lay the foundations for.
I can only ask that you guys keep trying to be patient with me. I'm doing everything I can to get things in my life back on track and I'm starting to see some positive results. As always, thanks for your all the support and I promise I'll do my best to keep AFV going forward. Have a great week!
P.S. Strenif recently made some really great fan-arts that you can check out on Discord. I'll post them for everyone here later tonight as well when I'm in an environment where I can pull those kinds of images up on my computer screen.