Look i may be a pessimist but i do think this is just a repeated scam from a long con type of scammer... 1. last kickstarter "online" for Queen's Crown was in 2018, +- 1 year after they already went AWOL for this game within itcho . 2. 2018 is also the same year that their main collaborater (afterthought Studios, supposedly located in singapore) started three diferent kickstarters. All of them: are well over 100% funded and have samey comments that seem to be just copy paste of eachother with low amounts. Also, none of these mentioned projects have ever produced the promised end product but all of them claimed that the "main story" of the game was already finished in 2018 (just like here). 3. if you want to check the ACTUAL website of the studio you can see it is suspended. 4. When you check the links for the demo of the other games you get redirected to a completely different company called Cahoots??? (aka no longer active) .
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So, I get that a lot of us really want updates and, particularly for the KS backers, I don't blame them for being frustrated. But having followed the tumblr updates since before the demo came out, this being a deliberate scam is extremely far-fetched. Like, the author put out regular thoughtful content, reacting to feedback, answering questions and sharing bits of worldbuilding, at least once a week, for years. This isn't that unusual for a creative person who's excited to talk about their passion project with potential fans, but for a scammer whose main goal is getting money, it makes NO SENSE. Yes, even with the eventual kickstarter money, a scammer would be counting all that time writing and building a fanbase as labor, in which case they almost certainly made less than minimum wage. Literally, unless they are an extremely fast writer, working at McDonalds would've been a more lucrative use of time.
It seems much more likely that this was a sincere creative passion project that got derailed, and that sucks, and I think a lot of us are still checking back periodically because we'd love to see all this effort reach a fulfilling conclusion. And on that note, idk if anything any of us say here is going to have any impact on whether there's ever a real response, but if it does, I feel like this sort of conspiratorial thinking is probably not helping.
(There are other things that don't make sense with this theory, either, like the fact that the only collaborator I know of (SweetChiel) has actually finished and released multiple games, and the fact that Agashi's other smaller game was completed and made available for free a long time ago, but I'm trying not to tangent. If anyone reading this hasn't played "This, My Soul" yet, you should, it's really good!)