Does anyone (specially those who know more about the TF games site forum and alike, where the dev was mostly active) have any information about the game's (and it's dev's) situation?
This game was active for ~10 years, on a very weird but very consistent update schedule of ~1 update per year (+ some little bugfixes on the first weeks after the update). This earned the game the non sense (at the time) "abandoned" tag on every motherfucking single year just because it was without updates for ~10 months (yeah, the game would unfairly receive the tag even before the 18 months stated on the "
Game Uploading Rules"), just for the game to lose this tag some days after that, because this game was a special case in which the dev would surely update it around the same time each year.
Still, the last update of this game was over 18 months ago (almost 2 years). On a very quick check on the TF games site forum, on the last messages, people are even saying the last time the dev was online was in January (which is worrying).
I find it very weird for the dev to simply disappear (I hope they are ok). Specially now, that the game was so close to be finished. It wouldn't surprise me that much if they simply skipped a year or two of updates and released the complete game out of the blue. Maybe they decided to complete everything this time (and do it in a way that would take too much time), or even weirder things (like, for example, making use of the fact that nowadays we have AI, which is polemic, not the ideal situation, and it would still be a huge amount of job to replace all the pics, but it would be a way for them to avoid the people's discourses of "the game directly uses arts from other people"). But without any information and all, anything is just wishful thinking.
For the first time in years, I can't exactly defend the game if it receives the "abandoned" tag, since this time it was surely beyond what is normal for this game, and we also have no statements from the dev.
So, does anyone that knows more about the game, the dev, the places where they are/were mostly active, and so on... Does anyone have any information about the game, it's dev, and their future?