Will there ever be a second chapter?

[Potassium]

It's been over 5 months with no news on steam or other sources. I'm personally eager for a continuation but the realist within me is trying to curb my enthusiasm.

[Nothing and Nowhere Bear]

My brother in worshipping the Elder Gods, this developer is one man. How about you go write a whole ass book in 5 months and get back to us once you're done?

[Potassium]

Originally posted by Yurasuka:

My brother in worshipping the Elder Gods, this developer is one man. How about you go write a whole ass book in 5 months and get back to us once you're done?

My brother in Christ, I was asking if it was even being worked on. Come back when you gain some reading comprehension skills.

[sirenderboy]

Originally posted by Yurasuka:

My brother in worshipping the Elder Gods, this developer is one man. How about you go write a whole ass book in 5 months and get back to us once you're done?

We totally get that, my guess is that OP is a bit mift at the lack of updates - simple or not - on the developers end. From what I remember, his twitter is just retweets of various gamedev stuff, nothing on whether it's being worked on or not.

To use your analogy, we don't want the book to be done, we just want to know what the author's working on next.

[Petite Luka]

Originally posted by Yurasuka:

My brother in worshipping the Elder Gods, this developer is one man. How about you go write a whole ass book in 5 months and get back to us once you're done?

Your post is kind of unnecessary. They are selling a game for money, they deserve some criticism. Op is right to ask what's going on.

People expect the next chapter to come out shortly after the first one, or at the very least some sort of indication it's being worked on.
There's been zero indication the devs are doing anything about it, it's the same messages from the release day.. no progress, no update, not even a post to show the devs are alive.

Oh but they had the time to change the title of this game instead of doing a news update. They removed the "chapter 1" part. How come it was done without even a single announcement anyway?
It feels pretty bait and switch to be honest when looking at it. A shame really since it looked promising.

[Goodsoup]

Yeah the dev has been radiosilent since launchweek and literally 0 updates or even talk of updates since march 6th. That's updates to *this* game btw, not even speaking of chapter 2.

Oh and speaking of books. As an author who had three books published under contract, I had a pretty short writing window of a little less than a year per book. Not saying the dev can make a game within a year but you know what? At least I kept my audience in the loop on the writing process. I bet making a game is damn hard. But you know what's pretty easy? Typing up a status update blog to let people know what's up.

Project seems abandoned. Which is definitely a shame but hey, hope it paves the way for more and even better liminal space exploration games like this one. (and no I don't mean cheap Backrooms 'chase' games)

[Potassium]

Apologies if I pissed anyone off with my original post. That was not my intention. I don't know I wasn't clear enough but feel like the original message of my post was missed.

I completely understand that it takes time to finish games, I have always preferred to wait out a delayed game than play an unfinished one. My biggest gripe with Cyberpunk 2077 was that they didn't delay it further.

However, one thing I always appreciate is transparency. By no means am I demanding a status update from the Developer. I have no expectation for them to update us or even work on the game at all. They are, after all, an adult who can make their won decisions.

All I was asking is whether anybody else had heard any rumours/news that I couldn't find on Steam and Twitter.

[Goodsoup]

yeah nobody should demand anything. But people have been passionate about the game. But let's be honest when the dev posts stuff like:

"No longer stuck in gamedev purgatory. Now I can finally do what my heart desires."

on Twitter.

It's pretty clear he shat out the game for release with full intention to never look back on it again. Props for him for not continuing something he clearly didn't like I guess. But he should just come out and say it, instead with the passive aggresive bs on Twitter.

But as a consumer buying a product, I'd have no trouble just as easily changing my review to negative and absolutely NOT recommending the game to anyone. So hey, there's that.

[sirenderboy]

Honestly, as a consumer, all I care about is clear communication that says:

"Hey, this is where we are in development..."

or

"I know I said I'd do a part 2 but I really don't care any more..."

Key words being: communication. I don't care what the dev decides to do, as long as they say it.