Some of you probably remember the Halloween post from last year that teased a 2024 release. Well, that is definitely not happening now.

The reality is that I made almost no progress on Creeper's 4 for almost a year now. Part of it is because of other projects like Box Missing Meth and NativeSound, part of it is because of irl stuff, but the main reason is that I had very little motivation to keep working on the game.

Half of it is because I feel kinda burnt out of making FNaF fangames, especially the prerendered 2D kind of game. I've been doing this for almost 10 years already, so of course it's gonna get tiring. That's why Creeper's 4 and Missing Meth will be my final fangames of that kind. There will be one last fangame after that, but it will be a completely different beast from my other games.

The other half of it is that I just could not figure out a proper gameplay loop. Everything I tried didn't feel satisfying. This is the last game in the series, I really want it to go out with a bang, which is why I really want everything in this game to be the best I can make it.

It might seem silly to put this kind of effort into a Minecraft FNaF fangame, but this is a project I really care about. Creeper's 1 was one of my first games and it was born out of a passion for game dev, and I want it to have a proper ending.

I do have some new ideas for the gameplay that I think will make the game much more interesting, one of those being the 360º view in the attic. I'm hoping I can finally get back to making consistent progress on the game soon so I can aim for a 2025 release.