After about 5 months, here's a new update and an official declaration that the game's still alive.
For details about what happened, here's what I said on Discord on New Year:
And here we are, almost 2 months passed since that post, and I finally finished rebuilding the game. This update fundamentally changed the structure of the game - it now allows you to change your schedule in the middle of the week/month, which means you can now go shopping and invite people to hang out every single day, rather than just thrice/once per month. Along with similar changes like that that I made to try to improve the gameplay experience.
But there are some things I decided to remove as well. These include character dialogue, which I felt was tedious and didn't achieve what I wanted it to. And the ability to propose to your partner + the marriage system altogether, as I felt that it should be given more importance and shouldn't be rushed (plus I just wanted to move on to something new already). It will be added later at the appropriate time.
As for the next update, I will FINALLY get to work on the combat & magic system. And it will come out in
March. I will be posting the details on Discord soon. I will also be posting regular progress reports there as well. Feel free to come join it if you want to take a look, or if you have any bug reports, suggestions, questions, etc.
Thanks for playing. I'll be seeing you around.