I’m sorry.

Despite my brave claims of having fixed upload issues, I was never able to get the next chapter online. I tried for weeks (it was a 14+ hour upload and one disconnection killed the whole thing) with no success. Then, when I was finally able to move to an area with decent internet (3 months later), I lost everything. Despite having 4 separate physical copies of the game, I lost it all. A desktop, a laptop and two jump drives. I had backups online, but they suffered the same upload problem and were terribly out of date.

So I more or less curled into the fetal position and cried.

However, through the years, my failure to produce whirled back around time and time again to beat me down. Eventually, I had to do something about it. That’s not to say that it was my only problem or my greatest problem--but it was something that was entirely in my power to remedy.

I recreated chapter 2 from scratch, essentially. Since it was never released, no one can really tell me that I missed anything. However, every time I went to push it out, I felt like I couldn’t face the world unless I added in some extra feature by way of apology. So I did--over and over again. Well past the point where I realized that I was doing it to justify not having to ever face the music.

Finally, I told myself that this was it--this was the last feature. I needed to finally step up.

That was almost a year ago.

I’m not at all certain that anyone other than me still remembers. Even so, I need to release a chapter 2 or I’m never going to forgive myself. Chances are I still won’t, but I’ll wrestle that bear later.

So...I’ve dug up the project again. I have more back-ups now than I have copies of critical life documents. I’m not certain I can create accurate patch notes because I just don’t know what the last release state was and what I’ve properly reconstituted, but I’ll try. I just need to do an exhaustive play-through to ensure that I didn’t introduce any game crashing bugs when I rewrote the quest system. There are still many things I want to do--graphics updates, for one, but I’m not going to put off release any longer in the name of new/updated features.

So, again, I’m sorry. I know I’ve failed everyone reading this as much as I’ve failed myself. I may yet fail again, but briefly, and this time, I’ll keep in touch.