Let’s be honest…

Hey, Katie here. I hate saying things like this because I feel like it invalidates me as a good leader, or even a capable one, but it’s long past time to say this.

Glitch in the System isn’t going very well right now.

It’s not the fault of anyone on the team. We all love what we do, but we have personal lives outside of the game and several team members have gone on indefinite hiatuses. This has delayed production for months. We’ve listed out the areas we need for the game and out of 28, we have only come close to completing 3. And about halfway through a fourth.

That’s when I realized something. We’ve been so stubbornly focused on making sure the game looked good, on making sure everything ran smoothly and blew everyone’s minds that we forgot that this is a Jacksepticeye community production. The fact that Jack is interested in the game is a huge blessing and he wouldn’t know about it if not for everyone.

But Glitch in the System has been in and out of development hell since its inception. From arguing over plot points, to people on the team leaving over things like how we wanted to portray the egos or general disorganization, to people going on hiatus… it’s a complete mess right now. Even after we smoothed over the story and what we need, it’s still going to take several years at the pace we’re going.

And for the first time since I started making this game, I wanted to quit. I wanted to throw in the towel and say that this is more trouble than it’s worth, that this game clearly shouldn’t ever happen because we can’t get it together. I don’t want to feel that way. I want to remember the joy of creating a game the community cared about, looked forward to, and I want to do it again and give you the best game possible.

But at our current pace… we can’t do that. We can’t do any of it.

We need help. We need the community.

You all loved the previous game. Making it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I don’t want to give up on what I know will be a phenomenal sequel because of setbacks and development hell.

Right now, our primary need is tilesets and sprites. There are an incredible number of areas and while many of them have completed maps, most of them do not. We also need help with VX Ace coding, which is to say the implementation of scripts, creation of puzzles, and troubleshooting. Finally, our core team just doesn’t have time to do faces for every single character, so we need help with faces.

If you have the skills and the time to commit to this project, or even to a single tileset, map, faceset, puzzle, etc, please contact me at @katiemarie999. If you don’t want to be part of the core team, we can promise not to give you any spoilers. We’re already planning to only use the team we have on the finale, so no one would be tasked with something that would reveal major plot points of the game.

Please boost this message whether or not you can help us. And if you have the skills and spare time, please consider contributing.

Let’s turn this game into A Jacksepticeye Community Production and make him proud.

Thanks.