So, I confess, part of me just couldn't accept that this game was abandoned and I went on a bit of a mad quest searching for even the slightest morsel of information, the slightest ray of hope that the game was still being developed.
The artist "HandlessGhoul" seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. You can find old posts and art of his under his old name "DuckHuntDog" (which when searching for obviously brings up a lot of results for the Nintendo character). These include
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and a
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, but all from pre Dvoika Games being formed.
There are references to both the ghoul and the dog on a couple of Russian sites, but poorly Google translated comments there just lead me in circles.
What I did find out though, and more on-topic to the thread, is that the
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- so you can look at all the files they had been committing and see stuff that never saw the light of day - including the lockpicking assets and Dogmeat
Most importantly you can see that the last time they even interacted with this project was in
June 2020.
Now that doesn't
necessarily mean they've not been working on it since then of course - they could've just been not committing (they didn't commit through all of 2019 either) or switched to an entirely different version control method. But I think that's the smoking gun I needed to finally give myself closure.
In another timeline we could be jerking it to Natasha getting railed by robobrains right now, but in this one we'll have to just live with the thought of what could've been ;_;7
Addendum - I didn't check the official Dvoika Games Discord because it's locked behind the Patreon paywall, so maybe there's more info there. But with what I could glean everywhere else it's dead and gone