Iirc some number of years ago they made a small mention of how they had a kid, I think. They never elaborated past that, and while it's understandable if it has affected their schedule over time, I don't really see why they wouldn't just share that in a news post on their Patreon. This thread was getting as bad as the Future Fragments thread for a while because Doggie went from updating once every 2-3 months with frequent news updates, to no more news updates and 3-4 months average time between updates, to now literally zero information about the game or what's in updates and 6-7 months update time.
People had good reason to be furious, but it's just sad to me that people spun it into some pitchfork mob trying to hang Doggie when the only thing anyone was really asking for was "can you please fucking explain why the updates have slowed to a crawl?" It's baffling how often hentai devs go the route of just "silently slowing down" their projects, then use the negativity surrounding their silence as a justification for why they went silent. That habit is the prime source of why people largely view Patreon funded projects as scams now, yet they all play the victim despite reinforcing why everyone is suspicious with their "u dont deserve to know what im doing unless u pay" attitudes.
And for what it's worth, many of you might be surprised to know Doggie is actually abnormally generous with the price and quality of their content; devs like SquashedFlat, a hyper-niche fart fetish furry dev (they advertise in Doggie's discord), charge 15 dollars a month just to get the latest build of their game (which is a barebones sidescroller that reuses the same animations and enemies constantly). The long and short of it is this: NEVER get your hopes up over furry game devs, they always either milk the living shit out of whales and slow their dev time to a crawl or they start degenerating into weirder and weirder fetishes. Often both.
