I feel like people deserve to hear this.

The game you're looking at right now was originally a hypothetical alpha similar to the TRTF2 Alpha simply made for fun, and was meant to stay as a simple demo. The full game was meant to be a complete overhaul more similar to games like Five Nights at Funland and Seven Nights at Storage. Obviously, that didn't go as planned. The fake alpha version is the full game now, and the previous full game has been completely cancelled.

It just wasn't going anywhere. that game hardly ever got any progress made, I had no motivation for it at all and I'm not sure if I even wanted to work on it anymore. It felt like a complete chore to work on. Yet I still felt like I HAD to finish it, so I still tried. And failed over and over again.

The bad memories I have regarding this game's development are much more than anything I'd call good, it almost feels like sometimes there's quite really nothing good to be said about it, and this was all caused mostly by my past immature self's own fault. While this somehow hasn't stopped me from continuing the game, I'd be lying if I didn't say that on multiple occasions it almost did. What I can't deny however, is that such things made the game take even longer.

All that bundled up together is why I needed to give this game a fresh new coat of paint, I think that it was what was necessary for me to actually want to work on it. But, even now that I've finally reached a vision which I'm pretty sure I can say I'm proud of, I'm still not exactly sure how to feel.

What if I can't make it good enough?

What if people hate it?

All that has still been demotivating to me. I'm trying my best right now.

I hope people like it on release. I really do. I don't know how I'll be able to live with myself if the only game I'll be able to release in a long time is received poorly.

Anyway, to end the devlog, I feel like I should give you guys this: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FmaFOKtQKHOOUJD84YEEivMLNQX4Rhse?usp=sharing

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5ti2kp50yjcxl5p/Five_Nights_at_the_Pizzaria.exe/file

See you soon. May, I hope.