Hello everyone,

First off if you're reading this as one of the original subscribers of Infinity IV, words cannot express how warm that makes me feel. When I announced Infinity IV back in 2014, I had hoped to finish it within a few months, as I did with Infinity 1, 2, and 3. But after my mother's passing in November of 2014, development stalled completely. At one point this year, I retrieved Infinity IV from the depths of a broken down laptop. The sheer existence of Infinity IV in it's uncompleted state is a miracle in of itself.

Multiple times I've tried to get back into developing the game. The core technical elements are done, there is a full-blown main storyline quest complete, many mini-games are complete, etc. I thought it would be easy to jump right back into it. But I realized as I explored my game world, alot of work still needs to be done. It's the kind of work I can't focus on anymore. I never got into game development to make money from the start. Yes, one day that would be a dream. But even now I find it hard to dedicate hundreds of hours into something I won't see a dime on, when financial difficulties for me and my grandmother are ever present.

Instead I see my future working on other web projects, and maybe even continuing game development but in different.. quicker, forms. The best thing about the first 3 Infinity games is that they were made within a few months. I promised myself from the first game.. I will ONLY develop it if I am having fun doing it. When it feels like a chore, when it feels like work, I'm done. Working on Infinity IV, feels like work. It's hard to get back into a project you spent months working on, left it for a year plus basically, when you don't even remember what variable leads to what, or why a b*stard error is popping up that never popped up before. I would rather focus on developing games that are simpler, smaller, and better. Bigger is not always better when it comes to game development. That's why someone nowadays can make a black & white stick figure game and make millions. Go figure.

So without dragging this on any further and making you anymore bored.. I announce the release of Infinity IV: Open Source! Yes I am very well aware that the VX Ace engine is not "open source", but if anyone has a better title, please comment and let me know. Basically this will be the complete release of everything I've done with Infinity IV. Sure I could remove major elements and try to make a smaller game so it is more complete, but why? I'd rather get it up and running, only remove stuff I have to, and release it to the community. Instead of spending months making my friends bug test this fat baby of a game, I'd rather let my fans of the series play it.. and also let anyone else who wants to build an open world themselves have a starting point. Maybe someone can even finish it. I'd love to see it, as long as credit is given to yours truly. :) With Infinity I sought to change the opinion that RPG Maker can't be used make open world games. With now 4 games in the series, I think I changed that opinion.

Before starting development, I sought a premade open world game I could fix up, merge into my Infinity series. I was shot down by everyone I contacted, even on completely abandoned games. I refuse to be that kind of developer. Infinity IV is a gift to the community.

So once I have the game running correctly, without any nasty errors right from the start.. we will have an official release! For those just wanting to play, you WILL be able to right from the get go.. get into the game, explore, fight, take on quests, all the good stuff (with some stuff missing of course). I will be sure to test stuff out ahead of time to make sure of that.

I've been waiting a long time to say this:

Infinity IV is coming. Expect to download the game between now, and July!

Comment away!