I don't know anything about the history of the game's development or the relationship between the remaining dev and Val the writer who is MIA but after reading this on the patreon,
Why put it on a permanent pause because the writer went AWOL? Especially when the ending everybody was looking forward to is unfinished?
Wouldn't it make more sense to give this Val person time, 6 months maybe? Just some time to come back or to state finally that they quit. Then after that waiting period try to finish the game yourself, or get a new writer to help for the last couple of endings? If the person who left was just a writer and you have the assets to still do the renders and can write the code why not finish it without them?
Ok this is especially confusing since this is Val's twitter
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And he's active on there...
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