Oh my god.
Last month or so the coder had a depressive episode and was way behind on coding. The artist gave them a deadline that they completely failed to meet AND lied about how far they were on the update. The artist paused donations and has the project on a temporary hiatus until the coder can get some shit done.
He was not behind on coding, it was made pretty clear he was behind in
writing. A writer's block.
This
needs to be corrected, yes.
He is the main coder, but
mostly the main writer.
But people thing "coder" first and so everything seems to be code-related. And as people don't like his minigames that much, they keep throwing insults saying no one cares about his minigames and to just stop them, as if they were really the cause of the delays every time.
Thank you, that's very helpful. Disappointed but not surprised, the writing had been on the wall for a while. I hope it gets back on track, but this is still a genre-defining game either way.
Sad there's no Christmas update; I've been disappointed so far by the tiny number of holiday specials I've seen released this year, I was hoping devs would move to include them more often rather than less, what with Covid and how dark 2020 has been for so many across the globe.
That's expected, really.
Unless christmas is a main theme, not much can be done for it besides art of everyone in santa outfits and the like. Or a short quest involving santa or christmas carol. Or if Japan-based a christmas date, as they are more about a romantic night than gift-sharing there.
On the other hand, Halloween is very close, meaning not that much time between them... yet not only allows for
plenty of different, more interesting costumes, it can have
anything scary as a theme.