(NOTE: This is a crosspost from the RPGMaker.net blog seen here)

I think the title of this blog is all that needs to be said.

So yes, unfortunately it's looking like I'm not going to be continuing development on the rest of Crescent Prism. A lot of the reasons for this has been touched upon in my last big update post and the reasons have not changed all that much since then, so this update will be a bit on the shorter side.

A game on the scale of this size has become literally impossible for me, now that my life has shifted more towards my work life and other obligations that make large-scale projects like these too much to manage.

But I suppose the other big reason is that I'm looking at the project, the story, and the type of game I was trying to make and finding that I wasn't enjoying any of it. Though I have an immense attachment to the characters and scenarios I wanted to write, Crescent Prism has always felt like something of an "off-brand" anomaly for me, lacking any real hook to it like Brave Hero Yuusha and Soma Spirits had before them. Crescent Prism was always meant to be my "big one", but playing it more straightforward compared to my previous projects ended up making me feel like I was taking a step back and wasn't really growing as a developer through it.

At the risk of exhibiting hubris, it just doesn't feel like it's in me to make a more straightforward RPG after developing a parody game and then a subversive/heavily choice-driven game. And because of that, I simply lost interest: I have not touched the game for 3 months, and it pains me to say that I do not see that changing.

I bet off way more than I could chew with this project. But if I wasn't for my friends and all the great people who were following Crescent Prism's development, I would never have gotten as far as I did. Back in March, the Chapter 1 standalone was released as a Thank You for all those who believed in me and it will remain available for download for archival purposes and anyone who would like to give it a try.

Now, with all that said, I'm not about to end this whole game development thing on a bad note. I've had several ideas of smaller, more manageable games that are a better fit for my current development schedule. I hope I can carry over much of what I learned during CP's development to make a fundamentally stronger game right out of the gate. And while I don't have much more to say about that at the moment, I hope to be able to share some news about this in the coming months.

Thank you all once again for your support! Hope to see you all on the next big thing.