I had to abandon my first creation, from its rubbles I tried to gather as many as mistakes that I could learn from.

Programming was my newfound toy, shades of elysium should have been a far simpler game, I was promising more than what I could chew. probably the only thing I was content about was the dirty-talk system, otherwise everything were so poorly connected to each other.Ĭoming into the game development field from a computer graphical background, our specialization background mostly came from a field providing production values making 3d assets like 3d models, textures and animation assets to game development. With no scope in sight, we simply tried out too many things and wasted many resources to make, for example (real), an overly large open-world style map without adventures or objectives that correlates to any economics in-game (which were none present), an apartment without customization, inventory system, barter, stats that barely matter at all, skill tree that was not progressive at all, the lists go on. We did not know what we were capable (in a poor way) of, nor knowing where we should go and more importantly how it should end. multiply that with gender, then multiply that with the total amount of animations and interactions in game and you end up with impossible amount of workloads. Unique bone structure and rig for every different races. Reason #1 (by far the most destructive and un-scalable) For people who said the game is dead, they are not wrong.įor the main reasons behind the heart-wrenching decision. The main reasons that led to me to succumb to silence over informing everyone about the state of development was the gravity of the decisions that I was wrestling with, was the many 'hows' to get to the finish line with no clear line of sight, and the other, to start over from scratch. Starting by and not least, spewing out the remains of all the haunting thoughts that I did not have the courage back then, to let out. I wanted to reach out and apologize for my long disappearance over the past few years, I want to take full responsibility for all the hurt and disappointment that I may have caused. To whom who may find this post, dear supporters, and people who are concerned with my well-being. I have been working on remaking the game, and I have made some progress.

For those curious this came across my patreon feed, didnt even realize i still followed the dev.

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