Deprimerie

Hoo boy. It's been a while since I wrote a blog for this, so I'm going to cover as many grounds as I can with this one.

Let's address the big one first. Development on Deprimerie: STORM of the Future has slowly been slowing down ever since January, and it's at the point where I work on it maybe once a month if I can bring myself to. After finishing the freeware version of Deprimerie, I wanted to make a version of the game where I'd just stuff as many things as I could into it, and in trying to do that, I over-exerted myself. The reason I was even able to finish Deprimerie's original release is because it, from the very beginning, was planned to be a 5-6 hour game at the very most. But my vision for SotF was probably going to end up being closer to 10-12 hours, if you did all the things I stuffed into it. It wasn't fun working on so many different things in the same project, as opposed to making the original, fairly linear storyline from the freeware version. So, I put it lower on my priority list to focus on developing Spiral Flame, my current main project, as well as I could. And it went well. Spiral Flame's first chapter was fully completed just recently and is up for download. But what did this mean for Deprimerie: STORM of the Future?

Well, I took a good, hard, look at it. And I came to the realization of something: this didn't feel like the game I wanted to make anymore. Deprimerie will always be close to my heart as my first full game, and I sort of felt like releasing Deprimerie: STORM of the Future would be doing a disservice to the original vision I had for the game throughout it's entire development.

So, it's with a heavy heart that I must officially announce: STORM of the Future will not be released. It's being cancelled. I'm sorry for getting your hopes up, but I can't bring myself to work on this anymore. It's not enjoyable for me, and I want to make games people can enjoy playing, but I can also enjoy making.

Now, onto the less negative news. In light of this, I've decided to give the Deprimerie soundtrack a permanent price drop, as well as a temporary "pay-what-you-want" price! For the next short while, the soundtrack will be PWYW, so now's your chance to pick it up! But even after that, it'll remain at $2.

As well, in case you were unaware, I've been working on a much larger project, called Spiral Flame, which you can check out at https://rpgmaker.net/manage_games/11020/! It's been a blast making it so far, and there's a sizable demo released that's nearly as long as Deprimerie itself! I learned a lot in making Deprimerie, so I'm going to put everything I can into my future projects.

Also, I've decided to delist my Patreon page. Nobody was pledging and as I went on I started to like the idea of a paid reward system less and less.

Thank you for your support! I hope you enjoy what I have in store for all of you.