I'm gonna be so straight-forward, I have thought about cancelling this game a multitude of times. There is genuinely just, SO much more I could be working on than this messy ambitious mess.

I started working on this game on summer 2023. 13 years old, having all the free time in the world cause it was summer vacation and I was chronically online as shit, at the time I had released the original version of this game a few months prior and was generally not too satisfied with the final product.

So I came up with the idea to recreate it from the ground up and improve the gameplay and visuals by just a tad, think of it like an update. Though mid-development.. it wasn't long until I experienced every project's nightmare: scope creep.

I had come up with a billion ideas I wanted to integrate into the project which lead to me increasing the scope way past than it initially was, let alone past what I was realistically capable of. I had managed to finish one of the more ambitious ideas I had, being an entirely new section separated from the main 5 nights; though I still had a long way to go and it honestly drove me to massive burnouts. Neither did it help that I had a bunch of personal shit going on in my life at the time.

This terribly affected the development of the game, pausing most of its development for over a year. I started questioning the game's current state and having lots of second thoughts about the choices I took whilst making it, it drove me away from working on the game even further. I have tried to redo things to be a lot more inline with my vision of the game but, no attempts really ever left me satisfied.

At some point I realized that, all of this effort at trying to make the game good and making it fit my standards wasn't worth it for what the game is. It's a parody fangame about Weezer for crying out loud, I should be putting this effort toward something I'm truly passionate about and that I can actually confidently develop and have fun with.

Not a dumb game with a dated punchline.

So I don't know what's really gonna happen with this game, but I have a huge feeling that if I don't continue developing this game anytime soon - it will most likely be cancelled and have some sort of build released.

I honestly think that's for the better, cause I genuinely have so many other cool ideas that I could confidently put out for you guys instead of whatever mess this game would've end up being. And that's honestly what I want to do, I've been stuck on this game for the longest time and it has severely clashed with my creativity and made me doubt myself as a game dev from the pressure of just trying to get it done. I could've had a decent amount of projects out by now if it weren't for this game, just sayin'

But who knows, what happens - happens. Just please don't get your hopes up for this, and don't take this as "another project cancelled". Think of this as a sacrifice for prioritizing quality over quantity, a direction towards better projects.

I apologize for those who were excited for this game, but this was honestly inevitable. I don't think there was a lot I could've done to prevent this, outside of not letting scope creep get to me so easily of course. That's only partially though, there's stuff I just simply couldn't control.

TLDR; I'm not a Weezer fan. Don't bite more than you can chew.