I still think it's too early to believe Saddog completely gone yet. He's had of few "sabbaticals" in the past and returned.
That being said, we'll have to see how that actually plays out.
As of right now, I don't have plans to adopt the game in any sort of full development compacity. That's far more work than I have time for at the moment. Content creation from the ground up is demanding work and I respect the effort Saddog has been putting into The Tyrant.
I do plan to continue to create content for my mod as I have time.
I'll have to look at it again as time progresses. He's had a 3 month absence before so we're not quite at his previous record yet.
My circumstances have changed quite a bit at my work as well. Where I use to have time to work on personal projects as well during those hours, I'm now far to busy with active projects that run into overtime and demand my full attention.
You've probably notice how the development time for my mod has slowed because of this recently.
While the mod does have much more writing than the usual update, it usually only has 20+ custom renders, done slowly on a crappy laptop. I couldn't imagine doing the 150 to 300+ images sometimes contained in a full update on top of my usual mod content right now.
I already make you all wait way longer than I want between mod releases.
So for now, we'll wait and see. But if things get dire, then this will have to be revisited.
* Sidenote: I have gone over the eventual content I'd like to add to the mod previously in this thread but to summarize here are some of them.
- Prelude Story - About the Year the MC was Gone > How they ended up in this mess aka Bruce done fucked up.
- Add in the Patreon Reward images in a meaningful way. They are short sequences. I think the computer and hidden cameras will help with this.
- Add some more of those great Fan-Art scenes into the game.
- Possibly add some UI options, like button themes and such, because it was requested and it seemed fun.