Hello everyone! It's stygianeyedev here to explain the awkward situation I'm in. If you follow my tumblr blog, you probably already know about this, so this is for the people that don't follow my tumblr.

So, The Woeful Rose & The Bitter Crow was intended to be a small, little side project to work on as a break from Sacrarium Pario. The intention was to re-outline Sacrarium Pario while working on a simpler game to practice some other parts of Ren'py.

Then, I got injured.

At the end of February, I sustained a severe leg injury that I am still dealing with. In fact, the only reason Pario was released on time was that Rian, our sprite & CG artist, is the definition of a trooper. They got the game compiled while I was trapped AFK waiting on someone to come bring me back to my house (I was injured on vacation, and my injury made it impossible to get home without someone driving me). After that, my life basically went to hell for seven to eight weeks.

I did have a longer version of the demo for WRBC, but it was trash :D Like objectively, the writing was beneath the quality I'm comfortable releasing publically. 

Don't write when you're on painkillers that make you bone dead tired and in a month-long anxiety fit my fellow writers. It makes you want to die of cringe once you've got a clear head and re-read what you wrote in that state.  Upon realizing just how much I needed to redo for the common route of WRBC with only two weeks left in the jam period, I decided it would be better to play it safe and just release a very short demo (which is an overhaul/rewrite of the first draft) instead of releasing something I deemed beneath subpar. 

As for the future, I plan on slowly working on both Pario and WRBC until they are complete. I will not be taking on new projects during this time or participating in new jams. These games need to be finished first. I cannot say how long that will take though. 

Not only am I still dealing with my injury, I'm also out of a day job with my whole life kind of flipped upside down. That means my schedule is going to become chaotic while I deal with things. Thus, the release of both full games is TBA. Once I get them to a near-release state, I will make sure to chat about it on here, tumblr, and twitter, so don't worry about missing it. 

Truly, I would like to apologize for things getting out of hand like this. I promise to do my best to get both games finished as soon as I can. I ask for your patience while dealing with this. 

Thank you so much for your time and support!

-stygianeyedev