Posted April 23, 2023 by Zyyph
Hello! You may have been curious why Rapturous hasn't had any updates lately.
I spent around a month redoing a lot of the game, pouring a bunch of effort into new scenes, new mechanics, and fixing a ton of issues that kept cropping up. Unfortunately, while they were fixed inside of the unity editor, I realized that a dialogue and UI handler I built the game off of was introducing an intrusive event system into the game when it exports.
In plain words, some code I brought in to cover my own shortcomings with handling long scripts is breaking the game. The whole game requires that handler to function predictably, so Rapturous is basically in suspended animation until I can rebuild the whole game from the ground up, or remove all of the parts of it I'm most proud of so far.
This is obviously not ideal, and at the same time I was given a position with a large university to do some work. So I was on a full-time schedule, burned out, and my game was tragically broken in a way I couldn't easily fix. It was a bit of a dark time, admittedly!
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In the time between then and now, I spent a lot more time learning about Unity . I've been working on a few things behind the scenes I hope to debut soon.
I'm not really proud of having to put such a large pause on Rapturous, but at this time I'm going to continue making new content. I intend to continue using the plotlines and characters of Rapturous in another form. This is difficult for me because I spent hundreds of hours programming, drawing, writing, and reworking on this project in the last year.
I've left my university position and I'm going to come back to full-time art and game production. It's a nervewracking choice but I'm really optimistic and excited.
My hope is that you'll stick with me and continue getting excited for my projects as I keep growing as a creator! I've learned a lot from my past projects, and I'm excited for what's to come. Thanks all!