Hello everyone!
Today I want to tell you all the truth on what is ongoing with The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act, and The Clown's Forest series as a whole. As you know, I originally announced The Clown's Forest 3's Demo to release on May 15th, unfortunately, RPG Maker started giving me a lot of issues regarding the development such as unfixable bugs, crashes, corruptions, etc. I effectively lost 3 years of progress on The Clown's Forest 3: The Final Act.
I will be transparent that I have discovered the reasoning behind this. When I started working on The Clown's Forest back in 2022, the engine crashed, corrupting the whole project. Because of this, I had to reverse engineer the demo so I could continue development from that.
After releasing The Clown's Forest, I duplicated the project and began working on the sequel, since I didn't want to rebuild it all from scratch. This made The Clown's Forest 2 a bit... unstable. I had a lot more crashes and issues. Then I did the same for The Clown's Forest 3 which ended up pushing the instability to it's limits.
I discovered this by booting up an old spin-off project called 'Rosemary's Orphanage' and realizing none of the bugs I had on the Clown's Forest projects had carried over to this project since it wasn't a duplicated project, and was built from scratch.
Because of this, The Clown's Forest 3 is temporarily cancelled and I am working on Rosemary's Orphanage while I work on the next instalment in The Clown's Forest series.
The next game in the series will be 'The Clown's Forest: The Insanity Trilogy' a Remake of the first 2 games, and including a prequel game called 'The Clown's Forest 0: Origins of Blitzo' (I know, what an original name) All I request is patience as we begin working on a new chapter in this series.
The Clown's Forest: The Insanity Trilogy will be different enough to where the original games, The Clown's Forest and The Clown's Forest 2 will not entirely be obsolete, but they will not be canon. (TCF2 actually ends on an abrupt ending since I didn't have any time to rewrite the ending completely)
I will explain more about Rosemary's Orphanage in an upcoming post, but as of now, I want to apologise about the current cancelation of The Clown's Forest 3 and that it took me so long to update you all.
Thank you!