Hey, I'm still alive, and the game's still on.
It's true that over the last few months, I've been taking some time off this project, I could have released some demos but each time the result didn't suit me, and I ended up changing or even deleting things that had taken me weeks to do.
What took me an enormous amount of time was the development of the giant map on RPG maker, essentially, every time I played it I had the impression that my game was messed up and tasteless, that the "open world" I'd created was weird and lame... And for the moment, I'm only talking about the map, not even about the countless hours spent fixing bugs or some "custom" plugins that I had to learn and develop (which meant learning javascript from scratch and the basics/methods of RPG maker). I really underestimated the amount of work it would take when I started this project back then.
Even when reading this thread, realizing that a lot of people weren't going to like certain scenes, twists in the story or even where the story could bring them, like thinking that this game would essentially only be an ENF game without any sex, so remove the sex parts, etc. (so potentially throwing away hundreds of lines of dialogue/story and even 2D art that take a huge amount of time to make, and thinking that maybe this is the better thing to do ? )
So after months of intense development & a lot of brainstorming, I started to burn out and gradually began to abandon the project, or at least devote less time to it than I had at the time.
It's become a project to which I've devoted so many hours, and so much passion, and which at the present time isn't satisfying. Combined with my studies, it's essentially a side project, and finding time for it gets harder and harder as time goes by.
I'm the first to be disappointed in this adventure.
There are so many things I'd have liked to change if I'd gone back in time, like using another, more advanced video game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, like controlling a small 3D character with but still with 2D drawings, which would have enabled me to create more complex things, more complex and rewarding gameplay, than what RPG maker MV could have offered.
The problem now is that I'm stuck with the rpg maker mv engine because I've spent hundreds of thousands of hours on it now, and converting it is now impossible.
As for the story, I'd worked with someone here who'd helped me a lot, and as for the development of some of the art, it's coming along really well.
I'll try to get back into the project, and try to finish what I had to do. But as I said, I don't like to give dates, because it's too random and I have no idea myself.
Thanks for your support as taking news on the game and for your patience
