Ok, let's explain some things, my lack of activity with "Humanoid animal", "The game begins" and "Hello Neighbor Real" I was thinking a lot for the last few weeks. And through the last few days I came to a realization about the Hello Neighbor community and stuff I think that I am done with Hello Neighbor fan games. There are a couple of reasons and I will give you an answer here. There's a few reasons why I'm on my way to end this era in my development life

1. It's definitely taking more time than any other game I've worked on

   It's actually one of the least meaningful reasons in this situation. I spent almost 2 years on "The Bloody River". The game was an experience that started out good, but in time got boring. I'm a person who likes to try new things and working on the same thing all over again just keeps getting more and more boring.. I really liked making Hello Neighbor fan games but I'd get burnt out often, along with many other things that made me think about cancelling Another reason is that making a fan game for 2 years about your creepy Neighbor where you need to break into his basement all over again is just... it makes you stuck in one place and I'm not getting any new experience from this

2. Hello Neighbor itself

   As you know, I made The Bloody River because I wanted to make Hello Neighbor 1 but with a really scary horror story with original stuff etc with only few things related to original game. For people who knows the times when this game was called "HN: The lost thing" or even times when it was called just "Hello Neighbor remake" They just know what concept I had in my head for these 2 years. Humanoid animal was supposed to be something similar but with HN2, where we wanted to do the game related more to Hello Guest things and storytell stuff actual eerie and scary. But Me and Nerii decided to cancel it and we didn't even say a word about it and I am sorry about it, But I wanted to make with this game something else as you probably have seen some weeks ago But I cancelled it 2 days ago. "The game begins" was supposed to be something more than HN fan-game, it was supposed be a fangame with original concept and storytelling, there was no even basement or searching for keys, it was supposed to go in more real horror games path like Outlast games or Blair witch but with HN elements, but the next reason that I will tell you (And the most important) will tell you why I stopped working on it

3. The community is going to die anyway.

   It might sounds stupid and pesymistics and some people will now ask themself "Is draxis the next Sheeprampage" the answer is NO, I personally think that his videos are the most cringe things I have ever seen

   I just noticed what HN2 is... It's just despair try to keep the community alive

   Why am I thinking like that? The answer is simple

   Hello Neighbor 1 after it full release was recorded by youtubers and then, this game was still remembered only because modkit existed and people were making mods about the game (And also spin offs that Tinybuild and EGS were making to keep this community alive like Secret Neighbor or Hello Engineer and books.) But let's be honest this game with these spinoffs couldn't survive just like that so they decided to make HN2 which could save game community but... Let's be honest it won't. When HN2 will be fully released, youtubers will record it, and after some weeks, maybe months but still, the game will die. Maybe discord community will try to keep it alive by making mods (because fan games are not keeping this community alive, main reason are mods, Yes, I might insult the whole fan game community right now but most of fan games I have seen so far are Alpha's remakes and stuffs like this without any original concept and there is only FEW fan games that has actually original concepts)

   So, if the community will (probably) die, then what's the point on making that? Well, You can say that Just wait for full game and then you will see if this game will die...

   Well, maybe it's only my imagination and this community won't die, but for sure it will be artificially kept alive by mods and spin-offs...And I am not saying by this that this game will die because HN2 will be bad,

   I really have hope that this game will be good and its going in a good way in my opinion. But I don't think that it's enough to keep this game away from death

Well, The game begins and Hello Neighbor Real are the games that I am not fully cancelling. they will be games that will be paused until December

Then, we will see what will happen, and there are 2 options

1. When community will survive and even it will be more alive than now maybe, then I will keep making these 2 games (But Humanoid animal and This second HN thing are cancelled forever) Only "The game begins" and "HN real" will be kept alive then

2. If the community won't survive The game will cancel the HN concept, The game begins is actually a cool concept in my opinion and it can turn to something else than Hello neighbor and turn in to original game but with changed story and stuff to make it a real psychological horror without HN references and with nothing related to Hello Neighbor

   The same thing with Hello neighbor real, it will be probably then changed into totally something else with new concept. Who knows

So, probably I will also quit community if this worse scenario happens. But for now all my fan games that I am sure they will be in development in this or different way are freezed until December or maybe for sure until the end of 2023 to make sure what situation we will experience

So that's all for now, I am working on something cool rn (Also a fan game but not a Hello Neighbor one) and you should hear about it with time, maybe even before December, But I don't want to announce it until I finish main game mechanics and start making actual gameplay and have most of assets done

see ya around :)

- Draxis