Posted July 11, 2023 by SageDaMage
Yochai told me it was a bad idea to have the subtitle be "Cairn Essentials" for New School Fantasy, but I naively didn't listen. Now, two years later, since 99% of people have called it Cairn Essentials, I think it makes sense to just switch the name in full. I have a couple reasons for this.
One, people like the name enough to call it that, so why go against that? Two, over a year ago my iCloud bugged and I lost nearly 50% of my source files for my games, including this one. It definitely hurt, and discouraged me from revisiting the project and expanding upon it further.
However, a little over six months ago, I tried to do a full rewrite and reformatting, but ultimately lacked direction with what I wanted to change. Now, I feel I have a better grasp of what I wanted to do with it, and it will deviate quite a lot from Cairn Essentials here. So, it makes sense to continue Cairn Essentials as its own thing and have my new fantasy heartbreaker be called New School Fantasy.
That said, unfortunately, Cairn Essentials will not become finished. The v0.5 will be the final version.
The reason it took six months to write this (as well as the numerous delays with Discordantopia) is that, on January 3rd, I opened Unity Tabletop Gaming with my family, and have found time to be a resource that I only used to have plenty of. So, with no self-imposed deadlines, I'm going to start writing away at New School Fantasy. Thank you all for your support and your awesomeness. See you around, hopefully with New School Fantasy in a playable state!