don't freak out...


Uhhh... hi...

it's been... what, 3 years?!

YeaHHH i know it kinda died... I lost interest and suffered burnout. the indiegogo money was refunded and i felt awful for about a year. and then i slowly forgot about the projecct alltogether. I think what most people didnt initially realize was that i worked on this projecct pretty much all by myself. applejag programmed a script for the dialogue system which i was allowed to use and thatsicklypup wrote two chapters that were going to follow the demo story. unfortunately none of his work was used in the actual demo ): so even if the demo page makes it look like we were a game dev "team" it was mostly just to give credit where it was due, and not because we actually ended up doing so much teamwork simultaneously. the absolute vast majority of this project was so heavy on my shoulders and i was just so stressed getting the demo done for an exhibition that i rushed it and got really burnt out.

sooo thats my explanation. idk if any of you are still out there, so far acccording to the statistics, the demo has been downloaded almost 800 times. that's huge to me. especially seeing as this project was my first real production and release. 


so, what's next? 

I don't know honestly... this game has a huge place in my heart and truth be told i want to finish it, and recently i've found the drive to. nothing crazy or anything, but seeing as two chapters are already written (by the lovely thatsicklypup) for this little story i made, maybe i should at least finish that.. another part of me wants me to redo the whole game again. working im GM1.4 was such a challenge and i think this ccould have a real nice chance in another motor, and maybe i'd even suffer less burnout.

nothing's set in stone yet, but i do really deep down want to finish this game, especially if there are any of you out there still interested. but there's no deadline, no pressure. i just cant handle it. for me, game dev needs to be fun.


i'll leave you with this post for a bit. eventual updates or artwork will be put either here or the twitter page. (truth be told i dont even remember the login to that one so we'll have to see if i ccan accccess it jhhdbfsfujh)


anyway. im very happy you deccided tp play my game and if you made it this far, thank you! 

Get outertown.

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helloooo there!

;w; hai

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looking cool! Like your picture. i don't have one yet xD. I hope you enjoy making this, burnout can be rough..

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Glad to see you back! I remember really enjoying your demo.

Excited to see where you take this now that I know you're committed to only work on it as long as it's fun. That's how it always should be.

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Glad to see there's some of you still out there! Thanks for sticking around <3