This isn't a dev log. I don't really have anything to share right now. This is just to keep you guys updated so I don't have a massive silence between dev logs like with v0.3's development. I feel like I owe the very few people following this game at least that much.

Simply put - I don't know if I have it in me right now to continue working on this game. I'm burnt out, college has been sapping most of my energy from me, and personal matters just bring me down and keep me unmotivated. I don't really feel the spark of passion that the original had going nor that I kept going with when I started this remake.

I think I just tried making this too soon after the original finished.

While I am proud of what this game has become so far, even if much smaller than the original, I just don't feel motivated to keep it going. I have much more ambitious ideas for this one and frankly, I don't think now is the right time.

For example, during v0.3's massive period of silence, I at least kept writing down new ideas that came to me in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, I'd have more to do if this game made it far enough. But since v0.3 released? I haven't really written any new ideas, nothing's really come to me.

To make the point even clearer, let me go over what is and is not currently done with the update:

Currently Complete

• The entirety of Machine Gun - all of the art and necessary coding.

• Part of the code for Electro-Shock - mainly left over from v0.3's development - so not really much at all.

• Support for an extra skin to Oceanic Ship, Magic Orb, and Brewing Station - this doesn't mean art, it just means I can activate their skins but they don't show anything at the moment.

• Temporary versions of Void and Long Walk - so while in the game, they aren't updated to be like the other remade maps.

• As for art, Oceanic Ship's Water Gun skin has tower art for all but the ultimate upgrades and Void has been sketched out.

So do you know what that means?

Not Complete

• The art for Oceanic Ship's Water Guns skin's ultimate upgrades and upgrade/ability icons.

• The art for Magic Orb's Magic Wall skin.

• The art for Brewing Station's Cauldron skin.

• The art for Electro-Shock.

• Most of the new code Electro-Shock needs - mainly for abilities.

• The art for Void - as I said it's just a sketch.

• The art for Long Walk.

• The customizable hotkeys system & menu.

It means that since I posted Machine Gun's dev log, I have done basically nothing. And despite my numerous efforts to try working on this game since then, I haven't been able to make much of any progress at all.

So I currently don't know what to do. I might just take a break from this and do other stuff in the meantime. It's what I did during v0.3's development and that resulted in both Colorful Factory and the Halloween Mashup, both games I loved working on, so I might just need to do that more.

Maybe that would get me back into working on this game, maybe not, I don't know.

Either way I don't think I can push this game past v0.4 with my current mindset. The recode will take a long time and honestly, if my heart isn't in it, I don't really see much of a point in doing it.

That said, I will at least try to get v0.4 done. If I'm lucky, it might be before the first half of the year is up. If not, maybe before 2026 ends. Or even later. WHO KNOWS?

I at the very least want to try to get something done by the game's anniversary (4/22). But this is not a promise, and likely won't happen if things keep going the way they currently are.

So yea, I just wanted to give a short update on why things are going slow once again. I don't know if it's an everything problem or just specifically this game, as I have gotten into drawing out-of-game stuff again and do think about other projects more often.

I really hope this doesn't mean the game's dead in the water, but I can't see any other way this goes.

I don't know how to wrap this up, and if I keep going I will just be rambling for longer, so I'll just end it here.

I might have a dev log up by the anniversary, maybe not. I might post a post on my account for general stuff and what I might try to get done later this year, who knows. Either way if you saw the rough timeline post, you can throw that whole thing out.

I hope you all are having better days than I am. I'll see you guys next time.