Just out of curiosity, is it against copyright/your goals to bring back any scenes with some of the previous models from the other game? Many people including myself were super blue balled after the big setup with a few of the characters (the biggest being Sarah for me) and I think even just a scene or two with some closely matched models would really go a long way.
Well the project I'm doing is just a spin-off; I want to use the same location as the base but is gonna tell another teacher's story, a teacher in another classroom in the same school.
I don't want to try to take over the original TP (Teacher's pet) story or characters so even if Irredeemable comes back and starts to work on his game again the stories will not overlap, my story can be years prior or years later than TP. So no, I don't plan to include any of the original characters in my spin-off.
I would really want Irredeemable to come back, clean up his game, and continue on with development but in the meantime maybe my story can fill up the gap