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Avaron1974
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- Aug 22, 2018
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Yeah, this was one of the better games. Would have loved to see it completed but we lose another one.
Alex5280
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I really liked this one, but I think it was just too ambitious for a first game. It would have been better to start with something simpler and saved this as a second game after the dev has figured out the workflow and built up a following. I think that is a mistake that a lot of new devs make.
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Impurity2937
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Nonsense... It was not "too ambitious", it didn't have multiple complicated paths or any pioneering game mechanics - game had great story/writing and good/very good renders. Just because it wasn't as dumb as 99,9% games in here does not mean it was "too ambitious".
Dev has his life problems he needs to deal with sooner or later but changing project complexity or it's story wouldn't change a thing in this case. Being perfectionist (among other things) is not something easy to handle or to live with, in most scenarios it is matter of working with 150% efficiency causing yourself to burn out or not working at all causing your self-esteem to dive. That's depressing and sad and does not affect just one thing (developing game in this case) but every aspect of your life.
Call me naive but I still believe in this project... Knowing what problems dev is dealing with I see this game as symbol of his healing in a way. He struggles a lot, that's why game is abandoned for so long with multiple resurrections attempts. Nevertheless life sometimes is really hard and my empathy really hopes he will manage to deal with it, one day you will see update of this game and you will know that not only "there is an update" but also that dev went through a lot of shit in his life yet found strength to deal with it. At some point in your life when you are low, support can change everything, how could I not believe this game will get update one day?
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There are a few games that I follow kicked the bucket but I can't get over this one.
Bucketbot89
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- Feb 11, 2018
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Is this actually dead, or is it the dev's M.O. to disappear for ages at a time, before dropping an update out of nowhere, and disappearing again?
afaik dev had some irl problems and quit the game indefinitely. At first he said he'll try to come back but it's been some time. Though one can hope.
Here,
Here,
- Mar 28, 2021
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yeah it's pretty much up in the air, either we get something or we won't, I like the game but not really confident anything else will come of it other than what we already got. It's a shame really, didn't have the best visuals, but I liked the story and characters.
I honestly don't have much hope but there is always a possibility. iirc, last stable update was over 2 years ago. This wip update, which did not add much, was almost a year ago. So, one can assume this game is abandoned forever but afaik dev never said such a thing.
dorleans
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When you consider the... let's be charitable and say "low" probability of material reward, especially relative to the time and resources involved, ambition and inspiration are kind of the only motives for most new devs to start a first game at all. A pilot project would be a more rational approach, but it's an inherently irrational endeavor. You can't call something a mistake if it's not really one of the options. The calculated alternative would be never beginning in the first place.
What I've noticed is that a strangely high number of successful, popular games get abandoned at roughly the same points in their narratives. And by that I mean games that were already actually earning a return on their investment in defiance of all odds. Based on this, I suspect simple writers' block is to blame. Which is something that just can't be strategized around.
