is this still being worked on we got a few updates out of the blue and now silence again
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Hey, sorry for my slow reply, I was away over the weekend >.<
It's a bit of a sticky situation, to be honest! The game is fully written, and the demos containing the new art and full voice acting were finished way back in February this year, but I haven't released them for a couple of reasons. 1 being that I'd like to tweak the UI some more because I'm not entirely happy with it. But the main one is just the general lack of interest in the project put me in a difficult position >.<
When I uploaded the character intro vids on YouTube, there was next to no response from anyone, so I kinda just assumed that nobody really cared about this project in the slightest. And the plan had been to release the character vids, followed by the updated demos, and then try to launch a Kickstarter in order to fund full voice acting for the full game with the cast that we'd chosen for the demos.
The lack of response from the videos sorta made us feel like there was literally no hope in hell of a Kickstarter getting off of the ground, and so the project was just sorta left in Limbo while I worked on Otome Jam 2021. Then a YouTuber played some of my other games, and out of nowhere, there was this huge surge in interest for my other project, Darling Duality. So despite the fact that I had intended to release CiQ by the end of 2021, I've ended up putting it on the back burner because there's far more interest in DD.
It's a tough one, because with CiQ already being written, it wouldn't take more than maybe 3 months to put everything together and release it without voice acting, but I just didn't want to do that, not when the cast we picked for the demos worked for free in the hopes of a KS funding VA. Plus it kinda kills my motivation if I know there won't be any VA, since a big part of what I enjoy about making VNs is hearing the characters come to life >.<
So yeah, I'm not sure what's going to happen with this project. It won't be abandoned completely because I always finish stuff I start, and it would be a waste of what's already finished for the project to never complete it. It's just in a bit of an awkward place at the moment where it's kinda just stuck with no way of proceeding :(
Thank you for caring about it enough to ask! And I'm sorry that's probably not the answer you were hoping to hear >.<