Hey!
You may noticed that I'm less and less active on this page, the game, the discord server, this account. I will try to explain what's currently happening so hopefully it will clear up confusion and debunk some myths.
Part 1 - PYRO-ILLUSION becoming a side project
I started the game almost 3 years ago, and it's still in the making phase. An incredibly huge amount of content has been created for the game. Once in a while when I check back onto the files, I just tell myself dear lord, how the heck was I capable of doing all of this? It absolutely blows my mind to see how much I've made and how much time I've spent with this game, it's something I've never done on this scale. This is all thanks to motivation and ambition, and to be seeing all the positive reviews it gets.
It looks like however this thing is slowly fading away. 3 years is hell of a long time. For me who likes to create random thing to entertain myself, this thing has gone way beyond my expectations. It isn't a good or a bad thing though, and I love this project from the bottom of my heart, but I'd like to focus on other things too.
I really enjoy sharing stuff that I'm working on. Updates for PI, songs, small game or website projects, art (damn I'm actually really enjoying this domain), including interacting with people and friends in general. But PYRO-ILLUSION has embedded itself too much in the name "ddemkoo", so much that everything is -or rather "should be"- circling around this only topic. Especially on Gamejolt and Youtube. As if it was the only thing that I was working on, as if I was supposed to spend all of my time on PYRO-ILLUSION.
It has come to a point where I'm just afraid to post something that is not PI related on my "ddemkoo" accounts, just because how people will start judging me for not doing what they want to see. Fortunately, that is just a minority. But even that is making me re-think twice before posting new stuff. Maybe it's just me overreacting or something. I feel completely restrained to one thing.
Of course comments have good intention behind them, but then you have the: "Hey how's the game going?", "Where is PI?", "release date". Trust me, it's getting tiring after the 46th time you explain that you're on a project break haha, and when it's not really the thing you want to clog up (let's say) my music video comments.
So I'm writing this post just clear this up and publicly taking the step I need to feel better, and maybe it will help a bit:
PYRO-ILLUSION is currently not my main focus point. I am putting it as a side project, and I will rather be spending my time on other things for the following month.
And unfortunately, there is nothing much we can do about this. I'm sorry if I sound disappointing to some of you, but I'd like to spend time with other stuff too, you know, from time to time.
I need to let my creativity go wild again, with no restraints! Hopefully you understand.
Though that being said, if I come up with new stuff for the game, I will most likely share it with you obviously. For example recently I've added a bunch of new sound effects.
Oh yes and also indeed, as I promised back in January, I managed to get a lot of new stuff done for the game: @JayferGames and one of my cousins had the opportunity to test some new stuff a few weeks ago!
(@Knox_GJ you rock fam also. You'll know what I mean by that)
And if nothing is happening, then that means that I was working on other, equally as cool project, at other places.
In conclusion, yes, big hiatuses coming up around PYRO-ILLUSION, I will most likely be working on other things for the upcoming months until about July, so be prepared. 
And before you say "oh damn I knew, it's cancelled", that's nonsense lol. That's not something I would currently consider doing at all! And for reassuring y'all, I still love every single part of the game! It's been a wonderfully intense ride so far, and it's not to end soon! 
So I'd better not see this bullshit talk below haha 
Part 2 - What happened during the past few months?
A lot! And most of it was fantastic! A truly epic journey!
Helping my dude @heavenly-roads 
with some soundtracks and sound-design for his projects. I've seen the stuff he's working on, and holy crap, trust me on this one, the content he's got in store is straight up mind-blowing! Such a level of professionalism.
Go support him please and his new game! A truly wonderful person :)
Next, I've been working on a lot of new songs. One of my latest published works was Natvandrer. Check it out below! Btw I'm curious to see if you figure out the meaning behind the title... 
I'm particularity happy with this one, because of the chill mood it has, and how it's the first time I've worked on this with my bro: there's a sequence where he's playing the bass track. Also first time that we recorded and that I inserted real instruments in one of my songs!
Then, about the exams. I've passed them all, with pretty cool results too! Thanks for all of your support! It's time to attack the 2nd semester!
First time voice acting: I think it's the first time I recorded some stuff for a pal. It was super fun! 
Next up, art. I've been doing a lot of that, and I'm really enjoying to experiment with stuff! Motivation forces goes to @Raccoonicorn 
@JayferGames and @gamejolt 
(yesss I've made some art for the site too!). I think these are mainly the group of people who pushed me to do more of this, so, thank you!
I'm working on a new game project called ... uhm.. I don't know yet hehe. But I'm really starting to like how it looks! You play as a smol cat, you have to find out stuff that happened around you. Something like a platformer/puzzle game.
There is also one or two other smaller game projects I might be working on (both alone and with people), but I will see if I got the courage to do that or not hehe.
And one last mention, please all of you check out @matepribelszky 
's game here. He has done an incredible work so far, and has a released demo that I recommend you to check out!
He's still refining a few things, follow the game to stay up to date!
And a tons of other stuff that I will not reveal for now...
So, overall, I'm doing pretty well, P-I project on hiatus, studying and working on many cool things!
I think I'll be back around July. And if I get some Roxy stuff done before that, I will make smaller updates in the discord server!
Take care! I'm out, see you soon! 
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