Mike has left the party.

So this has been quite awhile coming it seems, progress has been crawling of late (as you well have might noticed) since we ran out of money at the end of last year, will cut to the chase...Michael Reitzenstein (the projects programmer) has left the project. Circumstances have changed for Mike and it was really great working with him but he has decided to move on, due to differences in opinion about the future direction of the game.So where does this leave the project without a programmer? Well, it leaves just me left, out of money and maybe against better judgement and out of sheer stubbornness, I am not quitting, I will not declare this project dead. I don't care how long this takes, I don't care how hard, I WILL finish this project, by myself if that's what it takes. I made a promise to finish this project and that is exactly what I plan to do, against all odds.This news will obviously come as a huge blow to everyone awaiting alpha 9, as it means what we know as alpha 9 today will have to be shelved and completely rebuild with my (limited) programming ability. Before you descend into nasty remarks or anything of that nature, know Mike and I have been trying for the longest time to try and get this thing out, and this has been one of the hardest posts Ive had to make in my life, whatever emotion you feel for this, multiply that by a year of work for a missed goal.So lets talk financials, but I will be doing something that I have wanted to do for some time while working on alpha 9, I will be de-listing the game from Steam until a decent build is available, I think this makes the most sense as I don't want to deceive people into thinking the game is one thing when it is not. So as soon as I can hook it up, this game will be de-listed. As far as refunds, as I mentioned before I don't have enough money to pay them at the moment, so when/if sales start to happen again, I can start offering them again, but right now refunds are coming out of my (non existent) bank balance, I may need to work part-time to keep the dream alive, but more importantly feed my son. I will make a post when the project starts making money again so you can start asking again.EDIT: The games store-page has been de-listed, thanks Jason/Steam.IMPORTANT:I will no longer be responding to people in this thread, I am too emotional over the events to really have a level conversation about it at this point, and I only have so much time to devote to this game per day, so I have decided to focus completely on development at the link below rather than descending into debates about what went wrong and reading negativity, I can't remain productive to the level where this will get finished otherwise. Contact me here but keep it about development:Thanks