Development Update #24

Hello everyone! Welcome to the twenty-fourth development update for [i]Haunted: Att[/i]... Wait a minute, something's not quite right here. This update isn't about [i]Haunted: Attack of the Dead Men[/i] at all! It's just a shameless plug for my next game! While this isn't really a regular update, and isn't about [i]Haunted[/i] in particular, I thought it was time to share what I have been doing for the past few months. As I've mentioned a number of times before, I don't have as much spare time to work on game development as I used to. That has left me in a slightly awkward spot regarding the various promises I've made about updates for [i]Haunted[/i], as I've realised that I simply can't keep many of them - at least, not for now. Having thought about it a lot, I've decided that for the next few years I would much rather try something new. Two years is a long time to work on the same thing every day, and [i]Haunted[/i] was in development for longer than that. It was a very ambitious project, especially considering I'd never released a full game before, and so I'd never had the chance to learn more about the process and what it takes to actually complete a game. As a part of this thought process, I realised that to get [i]Haunted[/i] into the shape it deserves, a lot more work needs to be put into it - and I mean [i]a lot[/i]. I'm talking redesigning levels from scratch kind of work, not something that can be done in a few small, sporadic updates. I would like to do all of this one day, but given how much time it will take I would rather leave it for now and come back to it fresh, complete with new knowledge and skills that I will undoubtedly gain from working on something else for a while. I understand that this will be disappointing for some amongst my (admittedly small) audience. But not to worry, because there is a new project to follow - my next game, [url=https://gamebeastproductions.itch.io/station-015][i]Station 015[/i][/url]! For the time being, I will only record my progress on this new project over on itch.io - it is still only a prototype at the moment, and an incomplete one at that. I will create a Steam page for it early next year once there is something to actually make available to players (after all, $100 is a lot to gamble on something that may never go anywhere), but for now you can read the first announcement post [url=https://gamebeastproductions.itch.io/station-015/devlog/853659/announcing-station-015]here[/url]. The development updates for [i]Station 015[/i] won't be as regular as the ones for [i]Haunted[/i] - not for now anyway - but I do plan to cover the technical details of the new features I've been developing for it, and how the things I've learned from [i]Haunted[/i]​ has influenced them. But that's it for now. As always, thanks for reading!