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There isn't a different writer for Race of Life and Underground Studio is acting as the sole creator for it. What happened to the writer of the best days of our life though? didn't see it being mentioned much.
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They had some creative differences and part ways. This is the link to his post. He is now working on this game.
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The game premise doesn't sound bad but after Best Days demise I have little faith in future projects.
We have seen this pattern of devs jumping between projects before and it never works
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Other devs jump between projects for no real concrete reason, but here we can see that the development was stopped due to creative differences and even after a few months of searching for a new writer and no good results, the dev decided to put best days of our life on hold and inorder to not rely on anyone and just start his own project without any concern of creative differences.The game premise doesn't sound bad but after Best Days demise I have little faith in future projects.
We have seen this pattern of devs jumping between projects before and it never works
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How do you know that "other devs jump between projects for no real concrete reason"?
Are you their personal friend or something, so your knowledge is much more intimate than ours is?
The "on hold" tag here pretty much can be replaced with "abandoned" imo.
I dont expect anything, either from this, nor from the new project, which is a shame, considering its promise.
Anyway, we can only wait and see, I would love nothing more than to be wrong here.
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You don't need to be anyone's friend to know when the devs tell that to you themselves, which you would know if you actually supported them for news and were on their private discord servers or whatever and even if you don't do that there are plenty of people who post their patreon news whenever its updated.
Most of the time it's due to loss of passion for something so they start working on something new thats exciting to them, not due to some concrete reason that leaves them no option or forces them to put their projects on hold like here for example.
Even if this project is abandoned it's not because the dev doesn't want to work on it, but rather due to not being able to find any suitable writer candidate that wants to write it without changing everything.
If you actually liked this project then i don't see why you won't like the devs new project, his quality clearly keeps on improving when it comes to renders and animations, so even if the story isn't comparable atleast he is trying to deliver something without depending on anyone and not wanting to waste his patrons time doing nothing, so instead of being pessimistic you should support him for actually trying and even going so far as making the first version of his new game free.
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Wait so is The Best days of our lives abandoned or onhold cause judging by the comments it sounds like this game is done for but the game itself says onhold.
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Onhold unless the dev can find a new writer they feel is suitable to take over, so for now the dev is working on a new game by themselves without needing to rely on someone else as a writer.
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The racing game does sound enticing but couldn't the dev continue working on Best Days on his own like he's planning to do with the new game?
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They probably could and they would be the best person for the job, but the impression I get is The Best Days of Our Lives wasn't the kind of game he would want to write initially, but over the course of development he has grown to become fond of the story and characters which is why he is so critical of everyone who has applied to be a new writer.
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Makes sense, well I do hope he eventually finds someone worthy to continue the game and most importantly I hope his new game works out for him.
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Hello!
Long time no see!
I’m back with some good and bad news. Let’s start with bad.
For almost 3 months I have been looking for a new writer for The Best Days of Our Lives. I wanted to find someone who would fit into Arisushimake’s style of writing and at the same time would be creative and communicative enough so we would continue on creating this story. I have interviewed over 50 candidates and most of them just ghosted me at some point (or were so expensive that I couldn’t afford them). They simply stopped responding, mostly after I gave them the recruitment task. Even when I found someone talented there was a problem with communication or understanding the style of the story. What I mean by that is that they wanted to guide the story in very ridiculous ways or completely rewrite it from the very beginning (using the same characters). I didn’t want that. After dozens of situations like this I figured out that I’m going nowhere. Who knows how much time it would take to finally find someone who would take over the story. And I didn’t want to keep you waiting for such a long time. That’s why I have a sad announcement... Sadly, I put the development of The Best Days of Our Lives on HOLD. And I don’t mean to completely throw it into trash. I’ll still be looking for a writer but I won’t put as much effort into it as I did for the past couple months. I’m sorry that it came to this
The good news is that for the last week or two I switched my focus towards a new game I'm creating, called Race of Life. I know that for some of you it won’t fill the void after The Best Days. But the reason why I created Underground Studio is that I wanted to fulfill my dream to make my own Adult Visual Novel. And I can do that with a completely new project where I am the one-man team. This time I want to have it all under my control so I won’t suffer from losing a team member again. Some of you may ask, why wouldn’t I just take over the story for The Best Days myself? The reason is simple - it wasn’t my style of the game. I loved making art for it but the story was 100% Arisushimake's part. If I were a writer it would be a completely different story. I don’t want to butcher it like that and that’s why I didn’t let anyone rewrite it. I would rather put it on hold for now than change what the game was meant to be.
Later today I’ll make another post where I’ll explain what the Race of Life will be.
PS: The new character from the polls will be one of the main characters in Race of Life. So don't worry I haven't forgotten about her
What exactly happened to the old writer? And how would you find someone AT ALL? You cant just hire someone and expect them to be able to write 100% as the original. That's not how writing works unless you're a mind reader.
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This is why I feel the only way this may get a chance to revive is if the artist takes over for the story. Going through over 50 applications because they didn't fit a certain vision or showed signs they would not respect the established story or characters, shows a great amount of care and attention to detail I doubt anyone else will give aside from maybe the original writer and the artist. The fact the writer noted the artists' love and care for the characters and story in their departure message is a testament to that. I just can't see anyway the game will be revived anyhow unless a long time from now the writer suddenly decides to come back and they deal with their creative differences.