I do want to point out the Patreon post Henry made after his previous hiatus. We all thought he was dead, prison, military, god knows what. But nope, he's just a regular guy living a stressful life, and he's a little antisocial, and a perfectionist. Hence why he rewrote TF from 0.39 to 0.4+ and refused to talk about it or share details until it was ready. I've said it before, if HT does come back, he will probably have another total rewrite and the game will be a massive leap forward similar to the previous. Patreon post, for reference. "
As for me, before my hiatus things was going well. Patreon support was growing and though there was stressful periods, I managed to pushed through. Then a number of unexpected events took me out of action.The pandemic was troublesome, but the underlying fatigue and my own personal life also hit hard. I thought I would be occupied for a short while, but things just kept spiraling out of control. Eventually I came back with fresh eyes, and there was a few problems.
- The game didn't look great.
- The workload was dead heavy.
- I feel terrible returning after so long with nothing to show for it.
I needed to fix this, and that means solving several hard technical problems (mainly rendering and automation). I'm happy that it did, but TF simply wasn't meant to become a big project, it started as a simple fluid sim test (v0.1).I had a hard time, months and months of grueling work, full of frustration and anxiety. So many parts of this has never been done before (by anyone), and it took several failures for anything to start working. Somehow, everything did come together.All in all, v0.4 took longer than the rest combined."
