Achievements are no longer coming to Cube's Dark Hours 3.

Why did you scrap it?

Don't get me wrong, I was already about to finish implementing achievements. However, one of the biggest issues that rose was the way I had coded in the Ini save system.

Compared to the Ini save seen in Cube's Dark Hours Reopened, this game has a big difference in the way it is coded in. CDH3's Ini save was coded in with a more "simpler" and basic approach at the time. Because of that, now that I returned to CDH3 to implement achievements, it's got me through a whole whirlwind of headaches.

Can't you recode the Ini save to match the same style as Cube's Dark Hours Reopened?

As easy as it sounds on paper, completely rewriting the way the Ini save works can be very tedious and time consuming. It's not impossible, it can be done, but there are so many things and processes to keep track of that recoding it from scratch may very well just be "taking the game down and remaking it from scratch".

What will you do now?

The very least I can do is implement the GameJolt API (to save the awarded Custom Night challenge stars), as that doesn't really need too many things to keep track of.

Besides that, I was also working on some other minor stuff, which will be seen in v1.2 once it releases. It won't have a new Custom Night variant, it won't have skins, it will just be something small, something bite-sized.

After that, I'll just take another small break, and potentially start planning for Cube's Dark Hours 4..?

Will you ever return to this idea?

I do have plans to return to this, so, for right now, you can consider the whole "Achievements for CDH3" simply shelved.

Whenever I decide to start working on a remaster (v2.0), I will take on the opportunity to re-implement these scrapped achievements, as I will also be completely recoding the Ini save system to match the style and standard from CDH1 Reopened and the future projects that come.

Why do you want to do a "remaster" instead of a "remake" for Cube's Dark Hours 3?

CDH3 was already decent enough, so it's not really justified to be remade from the ground up (at least, in my opinion).

Before I head out, here are a handful of achievements that I want to reveal which are now scrapped:

Take care everyone, stay safe, God bless!