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Thanks so much for playing this one as well!! I've loved this concept from the moment I thought of it, and I've been quietly working on it behind the scenes off-and-on since its release. Unfortunately, there's not too much progress to share just yet; for much of the time, I was busy with work and a bit demotivated in general, as I felt like I couldn't make any progress in game development due to so much time being taken up by other activities. Luckily, my work situation has changed a bit recently such that I think I should have more time for game development, and with the motivation I've gotten from the positive feedback on Oorigenne, the future looks bright!

I'm planning to move forwards on both Oorigenne and ELLA-M in the near future; Oorigenne will probably be the primary focus given the recency and because it's part of an overarching plan I have for a game series, but I'm still going to put significant effort towards getting ELLA-M out and in the best state it can be. If you want to keep track of the development for each project, I do have a Discord server where I intend to post semi-frequent updates: https://discord.gg/qdWZ3mM5Mu. Absolutely no pressure at all to join; I just find this to be the best way of communicating progress without doing something fully public. Funnily enough, the whole reason that server even exists in the first place was to supply one interested party with development information about ELLA-M. That information is currently inaccessible because the "ella-m" channel basically just turned into us discussing our thoughts on various games and topics, so I turned it into a private chat channel, haha. However, I'd definitely repost the development updates publicly if you were interested :)

Also, thank you so much for the compliments on the writing and overall experience!! You don't know how grateful I am to know that my work has affected someone in that way. Given that this game has no traditional graphics or other mechanics, the writing was the primary focus here. There are only a few traditional "endings" (including a semi-secret one where ELLA-M takes a lil' nap) given that most of the dialogue was written between 1 AM and 5 AM, but I'm pretty proud of what I got accomplished overall. Fortunately (for the reader), there are no flat-out bad endings, though some may leave ELLA-M a bit less fulfilled than others. I don't want to give away too much about the overarching story, but I'll say that I don't think it will go the way that most are expecting. Anyways, thank you so much once again for playing, and I hope you'll stick around!!