One of the most sad aspects of prolonged depression is loosing entirely the enthusiasm for interests and hobbies that used to play a major part in the depressed person life. This is often irreversible if the depression lasted long time which is just the case. I will not be surprised if Cbob will not be able ever to get committed to projects.
Huge blow. Marty is a good writer, very good artist, but Cbob is (was?) a fucking genius.
Huge blow.
We don't know if cbob has slipped into depression or if he's just not loving the cartoon chosen for the game. From the Patreon:
"Speaking of progress, the as of yet unnamed other project is probably going to take a long time before you'll get to see any of that. I'm kind of happy Cbob hasn't told you what it is because I'm starting to suspect he's not really into it. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd tell me he wants to change it to something else. It's the reason why I've been able to pour my time into things like more FET and 18Titan builds. Well... it's not like I don't enjoy working on those and 18Titans did win the poll by a fair margin so in the end it's not a major problem for now I guess.
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Off topic-ish, This month I discovered why I've been having more and more problems with drawing lately. I'm a slow drawer and usually need to draw any line a lot of times before I'm at least somewhat okay with it, but lately that had become worse and worse.
Turns out my pen is have some sort of hardware failure which makes it wobble at times. When putting down lines quickly it has this "lazy swerve" and when being really slow it looks as if it's trying to evade invisible traffic cones. It works fine 9 out of 10 times, but sometimes it just goes off and does its own thing which is incredibly distracting and slowing things down.
I'm still not certain why or when, but it had finally passed the threshold where I could actually notice it as something not caused by an unsteady hand. I have a spare pen so I'll be using that and hope it'll solve things."
So it sounds like cbob and marty are talking and sorting things out. I suspect that they are trying to lay out a game based around whatever cartoon they picked and might have found the source material doesn't really fit their style or doesn't have enough plot arcs to build a game around. Also sounds like marty is getting burned out from drawing so much.