Yes, you read that right, my game The First Factory is canceled, but like only half-cancelled. Let me explain.

Why is the game Half-Cancelled?

Short answer: lack of motivation, burnout, and stress involving the community.

Long answer: When I started First Factory it was one of my biggest projects I ever did and I wanted it to feel special in a way. So I put a lot of my free time into it, which ended up being days and even weeks only working on First Factory, but that ended up burning me out very quickly so I would take frequent breaks from it, and every day I was on break, I would most of the time think "Why are you not working on First Factory? You could be making so much progress on it but instead, you're just lazing around and doing nothing all day." Another thing is that with how big I wanted this game to be, I ended up getting scared that if the game wasn't up to standards, people would laugh at me and remind me of how bad my game was every day. I always played FNaF and FNaW fangames with the mindset of "If I like it, then the game is good to me!" but not everyone thinks like that and tends to look at these kinds of games more critically than others. I started making games on clickteam for fun, but it eventually turned into more of a job than a fun thing to do in my free time.

Why is the game Half-Uncancelled?

Even with all the negatives I said above, I still want to do First Factory, just with a new spin and a relatively smaller size. I had a lot of good and unique ideas I still want to use, as well as some not-so-good ideas that would be better off scrapped. It might take a while for this to happen, or it might not happen at all, but I will assure you that The First Factory returning is definitive maybe, it just won't happen this day, this week, or probably even this year.

Well... What now Jet?

With this realization that First Factory negatively affected me, I also realized something about myself in the process. and that thing was that I liked working on a bunch of smaller projects instead of just one big project. Buying Clickteam Fusion was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made since it allowed me to creatively express myself in something that I enjoy, Five Nights at Freddy's. Making a bunch of smaller projects and tech demos, allowed me to try out many ideas at once with the only limits or restrictions being my skill. So if you see a new game appear on my page, expect something a bit smaller than usual. Don't look at this as a bad thing, look at this more like a new era of me I guess? I don't know how to put this. But that's the end of this, I hope you guys enjoyed reading this.

See you all soon. 

- Jetziel