Hello everyone. Sorry for basically disappearing for almost two months right after going public. I wish I could say I’ve been spending time in the hyperbolic time chamber and would have made tons of progress and have all sorts of characters and features to announce, but that is not the case.

Let’s go back to the last blog post, almost a month ago at this point. Right after posting it, I did as I said I would and started working on the tutorial series. I gathered up the sprites, planned out a moveset, and fired up the character builder to start working on Filia, but one thought kept coming up to the surface as I did.

This editor is bad. Like, real bad. It felt awful to use, lacked all sorts of useful functionality, looked awful, had a terribly confusing layout, and just plain didn’t work half the time. I couldn’t in good conscience subject anyone to working in this editor so I just quietly faded into the shadows in hopes that everyone would forget about me and move on.

Now, it’s probably not that bad, but even know I get a minor panic attack every time I boot up Unity to get back to work. I really don’t know if I’m good enough to make this project work and I’m not sure if I’ve just been wasting my time for the past jesus christ has it really been six years. Many significantly more talented people than I have offered to help with the project, but I am also pretty bad at managing and I end up not having any plans or anything for them to do.

I’m not going to make any sort of triumphant “this time I’ll work harder and push through it!” speech right now, because honestly just hovering my mouse over the Unity Hub on my taskbar is causing my heart to jump up my throat. I feel like it’s unfair to just quietly disappear because I know there’s a decent number of people following this hoping for a release, and I don’t want to leave anyone hanging. I would very much like to finish this project at some point, but right now, I think I need to take it slow. I might need to spend some time writing up some documentation, maybe learning more of what it would take to lead a real proper team. I don’t know when the next time I post will be, but I hope it will be good news then.

TUSSLE is not canceled, but I think I might need to walk away from it for a little bit. Thank you, very much for sticking with me all this time, and I hope it hasn’t been for nothing.

Until next time, Tusslers. Whenever that might be.