It’s been 4 years since this project was brought onto GameJolt, and obviously if you could not tell, the project has been abandoned and long dead, and I feel I need to say why, as I did just leave people in the dark.

Since the last update I gave, which stated that I was forced to move, caused me to stop working on it. Well I just wanted to say everything worked out fine, I don’t have any problems like that, and have been doing well enough. Mostly just working, just not game related as much as I would have loved to have been working on games. Sadly this was not the main reason why the game was canceled.

From moving a few times, I’ve also lost most of the games files (probably just misplaced them in one of the many unnamed folders,) and I have tried to remake the game from scratch and try to fix some of the major loading problems, though there was some major work, like having a more clear story, and an intro video, but that just wasn’t enough sadly.

The main reason why the project is dead, is simply the spark and creativity was gone. For what I wanted to do with this project, and what I was actually capable of doing with the engine was very limited. There was lots of stuff that I wanted to do with this project, but with how limited the custom engine was, and how work on the engine was basically stopped for other projects, my spark on working on Haunted Manor was growing weaker, until it was just ultimately scrapped. As much as I would like to try and finish Haunted Manor, I just can’t, and decided to just be done with it and move on.

Will I be deleting the game? No! The version of Haunted Manor that is on GameJolt shall remain here till the end of time. I feel there is no reason to delete it, as much as I hate the state of it, it can still be playable, and some people may still want to play it.

Thank you all for the support for the project, and thank you to anyone that played it! Hopefully I can see you in other project that I may do in the future!

~Aythadis