Posted June 24, 2023 by AwesomeTrinket
Well uh. This is awkward.
So! Life kind of got in the way of the Khawasim. I haven't been nearly as active as I should be on my twitter, and if I'm being perfectly honest I haven't touched the sim in a good 1-2 months. I'm just one woman doing this for fun, y'know? Life has been pretty crazy since my last update - I got COVID, went back to college, almost graduated college as of this post, got laid off, starting working for art + editing comms, started 2 new projects, planning a third, and I'm planning on porting over another project of mine to RPGMaker MZ when I finally get the time.
So what's the future of the Khawasim?
I'm going to be blunt. The 10 days I'd initially planned are just... not going to be able to happen. As much as I love Inferno Khawazu, Great Chief Khawana, and Meldrec as a whole, I'm pretty much all but burnt out from Epic Seven; the writing's just taken a nosedive for me lately, and there's pretty much nothing that interests me with it lately.
I'm not going to abandon the sim entirely, just end it a bit early. Day 4 Night is the last update the sim's ever gonna get. I've already got plans on how to wrap it up, tie up some loose ends, and also tweak some of the in-game lore so it's less focused on 10 days and more on 4. I love this sim, I really do - it taught me how to use RPGMaker MV (and how to jimmy MV + MZ into a visual novel engine), and it got me through the last half of COVID lockdowns for sure.
The plan is to eventually finish writing Day 4 Afternoon and a date with a certain someone, wrap up the main game with Day 4 Night, complete the endings I haven't done yet, tweak some of the UI to be more like Epic 7 in-game, and finish up the sim once and for all. I don't have a planned date for when this is going to happen, I'm sorry.
It's been a wild two years, and I hope I can get an update on the Khawasim out at some point.