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Lol, I think unity just won the first day of free agency, hands down, and signed one of the best artists around here on RMN to make her work even more amazing. Screw whatever the hell the Bucs and Browns did today – unity’s just got ‘em both beat and she didn’t have to trade any draft picks for it nor spend a gazillion dollars of mostly tax payers money! Now that is smart management.

I guess it’s a bit of good thing now that I’ve decided to hold off on playing and reviewing this game until then because probably by the time I get the chance to do so all of Jo’s sweet ass new artwork will all be done and in place by then. So I guess in this type of situation it pays to wait sometimes.

Congrats on finally getting this done, unity. It was a nice surprise today to log-in and see that this game has finally been released at last and fully completed. I’ll definitely be giving this a try and a possible review sometime in the future. I just gotta finish writing and completing all the other ones that are on my backlog first before I eventually do this one, okay?

I can count the number of mandatory dungeons remaining on a single hand, too!

Ooo, that means you’re getting pretty close!

But, yeah, no worries, totally understandable with your situation; just do the best that you can. You’ll eventually finish this someday...or at least that’s what I tell myself every day for the past couple of years regarding my stuff, lol - but then again you're not me, so I'm confident enough that you'll finish this pretty soon.

I don't think any of you realise just how difficult it is, or how emotionally draining it is, to work on something you care about so much, only for it to be forgotten by the greater masses.

You know what, then f**k those people. You’re making the type of game that you want to make and what makes you happy so does it really matter that much if one of your projects that you’re working on, or most of them, go under the radar a little bit? It really shouldn’t.

Unfortunately, yes, there are plenty of games on here that are absolutely fantastic and deserve to get a lot more attention on here but they don’t for some reason, whether that be the lack of updates and overall content being shown off, being made on a completely different, unfamiliar engine, the overall aesthetical look to it, or, hell, it could even be the freakin’ name of the game and the title page that turns some people off of it, who knows?

I've been putting out demos to receive feedback for this game ever since June and the feedback, if I am frank, was pathetic. Now, I am not an attention whore, but how on earth can you expect a game developer to continue with his or her project if they have absolutely no clue as to how they faring without C & C?

Even if you don’t receive that much - or any - feedback at all, or the type of particular feedback that you’re currently looking for, that really shouldn’t be a valid excuse enough to just flat out cancel a project because of that. Although feedback and criticism does help improve one’s game overall because of it, it’s not necessarily a requirement in order to finish something, especially something that you love to do. Just take what you can get and use your past works and past feedback on your other projects as your main focal point moving forward. Either way, even if you don’t receive any feedback initially or for quite a while, you will eventually get some down the road. Just be patient.

To an outsider, this creates an almost 'elitist' mindset, and also explains why the vast majority of games on this site go unnoticed because the cool cats were too invested in their own work and the works of their friends. That's honestly how I feel, and my lack of inactivty on this site stems from that exact same mindset.

Well, yeah, you may have a bit of a point there about that a little bit, and it may be a bit true at times, but, yeah, some members on here mainly just focus on their own works and don’t have that much time personally to get invested with any other projects on here besides their own and maybe just their closest buds. That’s just how they roll, unfortunately; it’s just how they do things on here. Some members don’t have that much time to do a lot on here so they spend the majority of it working on their own stuff and playing some games on here with other RMNers.

Although you can still have a project thrive here on RMN without being too active in the community or be a lot more active somewhere else, it really rings true, similar to life, that you need to have as many connections and acquaintances as possible in order for you to succeed and move up the corporate latter. That’s just life, unfortunately. You can't really get somewhere without first tempting people with that delicious peanut.

That subscriber count? Those profile views? They meant nothing to me. I would have exchanged all of it, for a few simple sentences of constructive criticism. Only my testers ever gave me that.

I dunno, Luchi, 219 subscribers overall and over two-hundred thousand profile views would still mean something to me in the long run. If anything, saying something like that is definitely a bit of a slap in the face to all of your subscribers and people who have followed or have checked out your project over the years. Yes, feedback is awesome, but you also shouldn’t discount other important statistics like that.

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Anyways, I’m really deeply saddened, along with everyone else on here, about the cancellation of this game and your untimely decision to step down and focus on other aspects of your career, like creating resources and focusing on doing your pixel art – which, I’m not saying is a bad thing and you shouldn’t follow through with it at all, oh no, whatever makes you happy – I’m just more along the lines with Blindmind and kalledemos that you should at least put this on hiatus for now and just sleep on it for a while. Maybe you need a bit of a break off this game and do something else for a little while to keep your mind fresh. Hey, I recently took a few weeks off of working on my project for a little while and it’s done wonders to keep my sanity and spirits up in high order. I'm sure that everyone here has at least taken some much needed time off once and a while when the going gets tough while working on something just to keep them going.

I’m hoping that you do manage to come to your senses eventually and continue the good fight until then end, but if this truly is the end of your gaming making career on here, Luchi, then you, madam, have done yourself a splendid job over the years. You really should be proud of yourself of what you have been able to create over the long amount of time and really hold your head up high. Not everyone on here can make three completed games and get one of them featured on the front page as well. Even though you’ve never received that precious Misao that's alluded you all of these years, in hockey that’s like winning three scoring championships and making the Stanley Cup Finals at least once in your career. That’s not too bad at all.

Sounds great, but I think your best bet if you plan to go down the commercial route is to either just keep the current IGMC version that we have right now on here for free and such or when you do finish the commercial version to it is to just put up a small, teaser demo on here like with what Ara Fell did with its completed, commercial version. Either way, some of these new mechanics and additions that you plan on adding in all sound pretty promising to me, so I wish you the best of luck of trying to implement some of these things in here in the updated version. I’ll definitely be keeping my eye out for it in future updates.