📢 Announcement: Important Update Regarding TAE 0.07 Development

The Short Version: I sincerely apologize that development has been delayed much longer than I anticipated. I am asking all of my paying supporters to please cancel your payments or pause your subscriptions until Version 0.07 is officially released.

The Long Version (If you want to know why it might feel like your support is going to waste right now):

I am deeply sorry that the development of this update is taking so much longer than expected. To be completely honest, I suffered from a massive burnout for a long while. For almost a month, I couldn't visualize the scenes in my head, I couldn't hear my characters talking, and I lost all the joy in making this game.

I kept asking myself why I had to make the game so complicated. How many people would actually understand and be willing to do multiple playthroughs to uncover the full story without getting frustrated or angry?

It’s completely demoralizing to wake up in the morning, ready to write the story or work on key scenes, only to be greeted by a flood of toxic DMs. To make matters worse, they would block me right after, leaving me no chance to reply. It felt like they just wanted to use me as a punching bag to vent their anger without listening to reason. It made me ask myself: Why am I losing sleep just to let these people insult me?

Yes, the "illness" I mentioned a few weeks ago was actually my own mental health taking a dive.

Please don't worry, I have resumed development, but things aren't quite the same as before. Right now, I have to consciously force myself to think and build everything—the dialogue, the scenes, the plot. It's not like the old days when the scenes were already playing naturally in my head and I just had to translate them onto the screen. Because of this, the process is incredibly slow. I don't know exactly when it will be finished. Maybe next month, maybe two months from now. I honestly don't know, and I am truly sorry for that.

I see other developers posting their progress in percentages so you know exactly where things stand. Frankly, I can't even give you a percentage or an ETA right now.

But if you want raw numbers: I have written over 4,000 lines of code and story script in VS Code, and I've rendered around 500-600 images. However, compared to the scope and storyline I have planned for 0.07, it still feels like a small fraction.

Therefore, if you are reading this post and are still an active Patron, please cancel your subscription.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting this game. Thank you, truly.

-LuxElly