the quote with "finish with current engine, split the project or redo everything in new engine" came from Red when he left Patreon in April '21 where he merely lists the possible ways for him to continue without really saying anything about how he'll do it (here's the
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from the official discord announcement for anyone wanting to read 2+ years old news)Also, I assume Red meant that story wise MGI is done with this game which would match with an older statement about him being 90%-ish done story wise and the animations are taking up most of his time.
At least people don't throw money at him anymore. I'm still waiting on that new years eve post follow-up where he mentions a "hopefully soon-ish announcement", but here we are, it's nearly July with nothing to show. Out of curiosity I did try and find all the ways left where supporters could still give him money and the only thing I did find is by spending money for the now 4 year old game MGI Prologe on itch.io (which is optional).
also that fucking"buy the music if you want more insight" comment. What the fuck does that even mean? Is there a track on there that talks about a development timeline or how do you pull "insight" about a game development state out of a fucking OST? At least new official music implies new content which implies development progress... right?