Happy 2026! I'm a month late in saying this but it's better late than never I suppose. I haven't been exactly the most active here on Gamejolt, but that's actually for a very good reason. I got a job, that's right, the scary job application devil has got to me and I have joined the work force since December 2025. I'm only just announcing this because I am quite frankly not good at announcing things, just like how I was late for the 1 year anniversary of this game.

What does this mean for Ultimate Freddyverse? It means that I'm gonna be working on this game way less than before. I am both a college student and have a job, so this effectively means that I have way less time on my hands to spend updating this fangame. Luckily I was able to finish the game before this so it's not a big deal for me, as I got to finish a game I was excited to make. Updates will slow down, meaning way less extra content such as new Easter Egg characters which was my favorite thing to add post launch, less Office Skins, new Challenges, etc.

I'm not gonna stop updating this game however, I think updates from here on will mostly come in the form of bug fixes or balance patches, to make the game more fun and stable. I am far from a perfect, or even good developer, and am aware the game has had a history of bugs that hinder the experience enough to bother some people, so I wanna at the very least have the game in a good state. New content such as new Offices, Easter Egg characters, Challenges, among others will be rarer from now on, but honestly I'm happy with the amount of content the game has right now.

And on top of me being busier now, I simply don't have the same motivation to work on the game as when I had yet to finish it, obviously because the game was unfinished, but also because I felt more passion for the project overall. This doesn't mean that I've stopped caring, it just means that I do wanna move on to newer projects.

I wanna become a game developer in the future, it's one of my dreams, I'm studying to do that in college as a matter of fact, but I'm not so sure how long it'll take for me to fully accomplish that dream, right now I have real life to deal with, as well as my mental health which has always been very sensitive, so I wanna take it easy. I wanna grow up to make projects bigger than this one.

This game is made on a game engine made for younger aundiences, as a non-commercial tool to teach basic programming to those who wanna get into the field, and it's a derivate work off Five Nights at Freddy's, not to mention its code isn't very impressive, this project is small in comparison to the types of things I wanna create, I wanna make original projects with original stories that inspire people, I wanna make something big that can make people's creativity and inner child come out, so I think that to do so I will inevitably need to move on from this project eventually. But for now, I will try to keep updating even if a little, just to leave this game tied neatly with a bow for people to enjoy.

Thank you for reading, sorry it was quite a long read.