By "updates," I meant life updates, not patch notes. Real life, unfortunately, does not come with a neat changelog.
I usually don’t go into personal matters publicly, but since the assumption is that I simply "decided not to finish the game," I’ll be clearer.
My grandfather passed away. Six months later, my uncle passed away. My grandmother’s mental health then completely collapsed, and she had to be put in hospice. I’m studying abroad, so I cannot even be there physically to take care of her. Instead, I’ve been coordinating with distant family members from another country while working two jobs so I can send money back and help her survive for a little longer.
I know it is borrowed time, but after losing multiple family members in such a short period, I am not exactly in a place where I can casually shrug off losing one of the only two family members I have left.
Cyberheart has always been a hobby project. It was something I developed to escape reality, not something I built to make a living from. But when reality becomes grief, family emergencies, studying abroad, two jobs, and survival mode, it becomes a lot harder to sit down and enjoy that escape the way I used to.
And to be very clear: this has never been about money. If it were, I would have kept Patreon up and milked the situation. I didn’t. My Patreon has been gone for a long time. I took it down because I wasn’t comfortable accepting support while I couldn’t actively develop the game.
Any money received before that went straight back into the project: better models, better mods, better animations, better UI components, and other improvements. This was never a "pay me monthly for nothing" situation.
So no, the game is not abandoned. It is paused behind real life, grief, family responsibilities, work, and basic survival. I understand people are frustrated by the silence, but “dev didn’t finish the game” is much easier to type than living through the reasons why.
First of all, I took off my Patreon a while ago, with the explanation that I didn't want anyone to give me any money given that I couldn't actively develop the game anymore at that point. This wasn't about money in the first place - and definitely still isn't now. My plan at that point is for this game to be accessible to everyone for free. With that being said of course, I will develop it at my own pace.
Second, Cyberheart is not abandoned. I had a lot of family issues the past few years along with just the sheer amount of workload at work - I'm still okay physically, but mentally, I've been wrecked. But still, I'd rather say that it's put on a hold because I still open HS2 and develop the game from time to time.
In case you missed it, I constantly update on Patreon on a bi-weekly schedule, and that included reason why the development progress hasn't been the best (personal reasons, shitty situations of family and work combined). I also have paused Patreon billing a while back too, guess you missed that part as well.
Hey there! Every dev logs are posted on Patreon every 2 weeks since the start of the development. Besides that, I do have public updates here and here on my Discord server - which I encourage everyone to join, because it contains more than just updates too (custom art, chat with the community, sneak peeks from me, etc.).
I haven't had time to organize to post on Itch and SS sadly, since I've been completely swarmed with IRL family matters and work duties. As for the lewd parts, we are closer now. The game is still being actively developed.
You are definitely...let's just say, not right. You are literally like 1 to 3 days into the story at most, judging by the story real time. Those feelings count for something in the upcoming updates.
Ps: Not every scenes where you see a naked girl ends up with you banging her. Depending on the context, that might be called "rape" in real life, and "superficial" in AVNs. To each other own, I wouldn't judge. I appreciate the interest though!
All jokes aside, I mentioned right from the start (and many more times with the community) that this will be a slow-burn AVN, and not your usual where you hook-up with randos. You yourself even said that the game mentioned to you there's no lewd scenes (yet), and you kept playing.
You also said that you play for the story, and not for the lewd scenes. I guess I...agree? Sure, AVNs are supposed to develop the characters and make you feel for them, and not just another video you bust a nut to. Maybe you got extra horny tonight?
Hey there! If you head over to my Patreon page or the Discord server, I should have a few other servers to download from. Just to clarify, the link on either place I mentioned is completely free, you do not have to pay to be able to download the game.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Comments like yours always make my day so much better, because I know that my work is being enjoyed by folks out there. And absolutely! I agree on the slower approach on NSFW. :)
You are correct! The only fix for now is to adjust your date to...say, March 01 or so, but definitely but February 29. There's no February 29 in 2095. I will get a fix for this soon.
Hmmm interesting. I will note this and circle back on this - hopefully I can reproduce the error and get it fixed once and for all. Thank you so much again for reporting this, and I also appreciate the kind words. :D
Snap, I'm going to take a look. Thanks for your report!
Edit: Alright, so you would need to delete 2 files: buttons.rpy and buttons.rpyc in the following directory - game/scripts/gui. I'm not sure how that got duplicated but yeah, it should be this fix!
Ah well, Ezio (the MC) is just laid-back as a character and he considered Meredith to be that annoying bigger sis, so he just really let it slide (until he couldn't anymore a few times - Remi's talk was one of them). The revelation would come soon and that might surprise a few folks, including you too.
Trust me - if you can bear with her during her worst state, you would get to enjoy her at the cutest state known to mankind! :D
Ah, the good news is that Artemis is updating really soon, so I look forward to that too, since Artemis is definitely my favorite AVN at the moment. I think the reason it took a while to update is because digi.B was preparing for Steam release.
There will be 5 main girls as in the banner. And yup, certainly! While I value story so much that I pivoted to a slow-burn path, I still make h-scenes very seriously. They will be manually animated and not just using stock animations in HS2. I hope that answered your question!
