Hot Pink claims that their desire for a merger is partially to help prevent Strange Girl devs from getting burnt out. If they are true about their intentions, they are CORRECT. Strange Girl's development practices are CLEARLY unhealthy and CLEARLY unsustainable. I want both game studios to flourish, but Strange Girl very much needs to ease up, because it's clear to anyone with eyes that they will crash and burn if they keep crunching themselves like this, no matter how passionate they are.
We are now more aware of this matter. I have now discussed with my team to ease our progress and spend some time for leisure, rest, and research, instead of crunching new assets, programming, and other updates.
Though there are no longer impediments to continuing Lovecraft Locker, it is not yet clear whether Strange Girl will immediately return to it or pause it as they've initially stated in order to develop their new IP, Tentacle Fantasy Soda.
We plan to do an update for Lovecraft Locker at the end of the month. Fix some of the mechanics that have not been tested and are seems to be broken and not good in their current state. Onwards, we'll be working most of a month in the coming months for Tentacle Fantasy Soda, just to make sure our momentum doesn't burn and our hype and interest for it doesn't fade. We'll still be working on Lovecraft Locker in parallel, but not as much as before. It'll be something like if there are 4 weeks in a month, 3 weeks will be for TFS, and 1 week for LCL.