Small Update on our brief hiatus

Hey everyone! Thought I'd update you all on the state of the project, since I just realized that we never wrote a devlog here on Itch to explain the situation.

To put it simply, Ukraine happened. And our artist, Nik, lives there. He may live in an area far away from the main fighting, but he's still at risk because of the invasion. Luckily, aside from vanishing for a few days because of the Internet being a little unstable, he's been doing mostly fine, and he still has access to water, gas, electricity, an ample food supply, and even the Internet for the time being. He's still working hard on the project (we tried to stop him, but he'd rather work on that than focus on his own thoughts or art at the moment), and so are we, albeit in a much slower fashion.

I haven't had it in me to keep working on the script with so much anxiety inside me, but hopefully I can resume in the coming days. Our updates have been slowed down by this unexpected war, but we'll surely recover in due time. We still paused our Patreon for the time being, but with some luck we'll be able to reopen it next month. You can still subscribe if you want access to the new halfway build coming in a few weeks!

With that said, I guess I'll see you next month. Stay hopeful! ^w^

Update: in a previous version of this post, I called the army invading Ukraine "the soviets". This was to distinguish them from the Russians that are dear to my heart that are against, and even actively protest this insane conflict. It was never my intention to conflate the two terms, though I understand why people would come to that assumption. I leave this clarification here so people don't think I'm trying to erase my mistakes. Know that I never meant to offend anyone, and I apologize if my emotions got the best of me.