I was surprised and exhilarated to log into RMN and notice that the last blog managed to get featured on the front page! I can only hope that someone, somewhere, may have found my solution to a problem helpful in their own game design. It'd mean the world to me if it did.

So how am I going to follow that up? By announcing that development for PotF just hit a snag. That seems appropriate, right?

Unfortunately, the last few weeks have been more than a little stressful for me. After a long and arduous few weeks, I was let go from my job a few days ago. I won't bore/depress anyone with the details, suffice to say that I wasn't as active on RMN because I got lazy.

So why am I complaining about this to you all? Well, because my priorities have to shift away from PotF and towards securing a new job. This is going to affect my projected release window of this summer. How far along will it be pushed back? Honestly, I can't say. All I can do is give a huge, massive thanks to everyone here for sticking with PotF's development for so long, and promise that I will give you a new release window when I can see one.

I'll still work on the game little by little in the spare time I can find, and I'll still keep up the monthly update blogs, but I think I'm gonna change my dev strategy: Before, I would complete one character's chapter, then run through it myself before sending it off to testers. Now, with the endgame so close (I'm about to implement cutscenes for Mia 4), I think I'm going to go ahead and finish up the rest of the game before involving testers. Screw balancing and screw testing, I'm gonna work on making the game playable from beginning to end right now, and work on polishing it later.

But let's end on a positive note: I want to reiterate how thankful I am you all have stuck around as long as you have. I'm sorry to throw this out at you, but I hope you understand. Again, I'll still post a blog monthly (I'll never run out of topics to talk about, haha), so don't think I'm dipping out of RMN or work on the game.