hey all! I wanna start by saying I am. Really sorry for being absolutely radio silent on this game. I haven't given up on it, I do still really want to make this. there are numerous factors that go into why development has been effectively stagnant, but by far the biggest factor is that working on this project regularly just isn't feasible for me.

I am an adult. I am currently 19, and I started this project when I was 17 (in 2023) less than 6 months before my birthday. unfortunately, this period of time where I'm becoming an adult and figuring out what that even means, really prevents me from working on fan projects such as this.

I need to make money! and I wanna make money with my games and art! but that's not really feasible for fangames bc of copyright LOL

nothing is going to happen to this game and its identity. however, there will be some changes to my approach for its development that I hope to implement basically immediately.

the plan before was that I would make a functional alpha build first, and then I would start looking for team members. I am ditching this. starting now I will be passively reaching out to close friends or mutuals within the fnaf scene to help do a bit more serious work on the game, such as programmers. keep in mind I said friends and mutuals. please do not comment or reach out about asking to join the project if I don't know you personally. it's an automatic no.

second, I am tired of just cowering away from this project, but I am also tired of constantly bouncing between my personal projects depending on what interests me most at the time. I'm NEVER going to be finishing anything like that. SO, what I WILL do for myself personally (and is something I hope Works) is pick a commercial project to pursue more-or-less full-time (the details of which I will not share), and if I REALLY need a break from it, I'll work on magic fest.

what I'm hoping is that this when paired with hopefully getting more hands on the project, I will have something that I don't have to engage with QUITE as much (outside of yk obviously making sure things align with my vision), and I can work on my actual professional endeavors mostly guilt-free while STILL at least having some molecule of progress being done on magic fest.

does this mean you'll start getting regular updates? hell no! that would require constantly working on this game. which need I remind you is not feasible for me. but what it hopefully DOES mean is that I won't be constantly sitting in bed feeling horrible about not making any amount of progress on magic fest in over 6 months and not saying anything about it, bc I'll be bringing people on to alleviate some of that stress for me, but all in our own time. this is not a full-time project. this is a project that will be tinkered with occasionally.

in the meantime, while I know you are all here for funny miku fnaf game, I would still appreciate if you checked out some of my other work. I've been really starting to get more locked in on game dev as a whole and last month I made a game for the Pixel Game Jam. you can play it through the provided link, or you can wait for the eventual game jolt release which will be coming after the jam officially ends. even with how simple the game is I'm still quite proud of it and it feels great to have actually finished and released a new game for once, even if it's just another jam game.

all that said, I hope you all have a good day/night. sorry for the disappointing levels of progress, but we're only human and I'm trying my best lol. this game WILL get made. it just might take several years unfortunately 😭 I hate it too but I still need to be an adult.