Check his Patreon account it hasn't been updated since January 2024. I say it's abandoned for a couple of years now.
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Yep. I already had looked before posting. If it was updated in January of this year, that would only be 9 months, not a couple of years. And many devs (NerdWorks in particular) aren't good at posting things to keep folks in the loop. It's definitely possible this is abandoned, but with this dev specifically I don't think the normal assumptions apply. I've said this before (so please pardon me for repeating myself), but I think this dev is something of a perfectionist. I think it's more likely he hasn't released because he's still not happy with the results of his work so far. Couple that with IRL work keeping him really busy — at least, I think that's what he said previously — and I'm not surprised it's been a long time since the last update.
Still, even if this were abandoned, that wasn't really the point of my responses. I still have the same opinion about a "remake" or "taking over" or whatever. I have that view on almost any game, TBH. I mainly was just expressing that.
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A remake would do this game good. Even if it will be "half as good" in the assets and story departments. The game is abandoned, it's clear as day. And it's most likely due to the complete lack of interest from players, that in turn is due to the questionable choices made by the dev in terms of game mechanics. Which led to very little income.
The premise of the game is enticing. The implementation was completely off. Maybe, if someone decides to do a remake, won't do as good a job, or maybe they'll do an even better job. In the end it doesn't matter. If people wouldn't strive to improve, we would still be fingerpainting in caves. And the only way to improve is to try. If you do a bad job, you figure out what went wrong and try again.
The premise of the game is enticing. The implementation was completely off. Maybe, if someone decides to do a remake, won't do as good a job, or maybe they'll do an even better job. In the end it doesn't matter. If people wouldn't strive to improve, we would still be fingerpainting in caves. And the only way to improve is to try. If you do a bad job, you figure out what went wrong and try again.
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Clear as a foggy day with a blizzard raging outside, maybe. This dev has a history of very long delays between releases, at least for the last several times. It very well might be abandoned. But you don't know that, just like I don't know that it's still being developed. Shockingly, no news is just that: no news.
And why would you push to take this same game and remake / finish it? Why not have people create their own thing? If someone doesn't have the creativity to make their own story and instead has to rely on redoing someone else's idea, they're seriously deluded in thinking they could make a go of it and be even remotely successful. There's a reason people rag on Hollywood for remaking / reimagining past films so much instead of coming up with new material.
- May 1, 2019
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Redoing what someone else started and didn't finish isn't indicative of a lack of creativity. It's building on top of the original concept. With that logic, improv shouldn't exist, cause the whole concept there is building on top of what the other said.
And people harping on hollywood for remaking past films is only a recent thing. The majority of recent remakes are shit, yes, but not because the originals were perfect and there was no room for improvement or because someone else can't do a better job. The reason they are shit is more complex and it has to do the current state of hollywood as a whole, with politics, wokeness, pushing agendas that have no place there in the first place, lack of integrity from people involved in the production of a movie and so on.
And regarding hollywood movies, some of the best movies ever made are remakes: Scarface, the new IT, The Thing, the girl with the dragon tattoo, Scent of a woman, The fly... and many more.
Also, why are you so against it? If someone does a remake and it's shit, you can simply ignore it. This version will still be here for you to enjoy.
Also also, what's with the excessive underscoring?