Hi everyone 0/

It’s been a year and a few days since I posted the first version of the game for the Stencyl Jam 2016 and I thought it will be fitting to tell you about what’s going on with the game since my last update was 5 moths ago.

What have kept the game away from releasing is a matter of budget. The feedback I got after the game was greenlit was that it was very cool but you wanted improved graphics for the game and that made sense to me since it’s an old school horror game the atmosphere is very important. Unfortunately a professional artist to complete the game is very expensive.

So I have worked hard to find the financial support for the game in my country. I haven’t try looking for money overseas because it’s a bit hard to introduce USD into my country due to the banks being afraid of money laundry and those illegal stuffs so getting money from other countries is a last resort for me.

I have entered an entrepreneur program of the chamber of commerce in my city which besides the training they offer 10 seed budgets to start enterprises and 1 of those prizes is enough to pay for graphic and sound assets. This program is in it’s last stage they have already reviewed the business plan for the games I make. The first score is based on a 106 pages report I delivered 2 weeks ago and they gave me 76/79 take a look:

but I had 5 days to fix the errors I made so after I delivered a corrected 116 pages report I’m pretty sure I scored a 79/79. The other part of the score was given by investor, yesterday I had the opportunity to pitch them the games, the meeting lasted like 40 minutes and I answered in a satisfactory way all their questions so I bet they gave me a good score. They will be announcing the 10 winners between December 8th - 9th.

The big “BUT” is that the chamber of commerce do not want the money to be invested in professional fees or royalties so in other words I won’t be able to use it to pay artist for their work… and they told me that yesterday but that they will “Analyze it”.

If I’m one of the 10 enterprises that win financial support I’ll be able to finish the game but probably not Human Piñata because of it’s gory nature and I don’t want to go the censorship route with the game because that’s bullshit. So I’ll finish a more family friendly game before Human Piñata. Only if I win and they tell me we don’t care if you use it for a gory game then Human Pinata will be finished first.

If I don’t win and I’m not one of the 10 enterprises that the chamber of commerce will support there’s one option left thanks to the way I presented the interest that you have show me for the game: I’ll made a big effort with close people to me to complete the budget for art that the game needs.

So for those reasons do not expect any update until December or January 2018.

Thanks for your support to the game ^_^ / I really appreciate it and it’s the reason I’m making everything I can to deliver you the game you expect.

Until Next Time!