As we close in on the home stretch here, it's crunch time for me. For my stated goal of having the game out before the end of the year, I have less than four months of time to complete everything.

While I am still pretty optimistic about reaching that deadline, I have to be honest that several factors are out of my hand, mostly the amount of time I'll have allotted to work from day to day. Therefore, I have to admit that the possibility of me being unable to release the game by the deadline does exist. Should things go poorly, I may have to push the release back to January of next year, but I think that will probably be the latest it gets pushed back.

I want to thank everyone who's been following the game, and an extra-special thanks to those who have been helping me out. Sooz is doing some really amazing sprite-work for me, and has done super-amazing work to help bring the dialog to life. Red_Nova has supported me since just about the very beginning, and his advice, helpfulness, and general enthusiasm about the project have been amazing. M-3-1 has done such an amazing job with the art, and I can't thank her enough for her time and attention to detail, despite all of the many, many facesets and drawings I've asked of her. And last but not least, I'd like to give another shout-out to Never Silent, who is doing some really, really incredible puzzle-work for me.

Thank you all so much! There are more thank-yous I'd like to give out, but I think I'll save those for the final release! Truly, I have been so fortunate to have the help of the RMN community. You all are so amazing!