[Announcement] Delays and Other Complications

Hey, everyone. I hope you're all enjoying Spooky Month so far.

I unfortunately have some bad news.

The update is going to take longer to finish than I thought it would. Like, potentially a lot longer. I completely underestimated how much time it would take to make and render all of the visual asset variants (i.e. different belly sizes for Ruby, day/night and different weather versions of the environment, different variants of NPC getting nommed by Ruby on-screen), and I similarly underestimated the amount of code and—more notably—all of the dialogue and flavor text that needs to be written for this update.

To add to that, my mental health has taken a turn for the worse. As much as I hate to admit it, I feel burnt out, and the guilt of constantly having to delay this update is taking its toll on me. It's gotten so bad that I even had a full-blown panic attack the other night. So yeah, it's not good...

I kept telling myself that if I just work hard enough and for longer hours I'd be able to get the update done by the end of this month, but it's becoming increasingly clear that that's simply not possible. And after taking a step back and looking at the work I still need to do and the state of my mental health, I doubt I could finish it by the end of next month either. I think I should be able to have it finished by the end of December, but at this point I don't want to set you all up for disappointment by making any sort of guarantee that it'll be done by then.

I'm really sorry about this, and if anyone wants a refund, feel free to let me know. And if you want to stop supporting me until the update is done, keep an eye on the discord channel or the Aryion thread to see when it's done.

Now, while I'm no longer comfortable making any promise as to when exactly the update will come out, I can promise that I'll keep working on it to the best of my ability until it's done and that if you Ruby, you're going to love this update.

I can also promise that this is going to be the last update that's this big. I wanted Ruby to be the perfect end-game character, but that also made me way too overambitious. I want to go back to making one-month updates, and that's what I'm planning to do once this update is finished.

And don't worry, I'm still planning on adding more characters and making more existing characters into potential roommates, but that's going to be way more simple to implement than Ruby has been.

Again, I'm so sorry about this. I'm sorry that I keep letting you all down. And if you want refunds or don't want to support me anymore, I understand.