Hello, my name is Taras, also known as Fullmetal Developer. Trapped Souls(previously known as Heroes of Dark Dungeon ) has been on pause for quite some time. Now, I decided to recover the development of TS! It's quite important for me to tell you why my game was on pause and why after so many years I decided to finish it.
I started developing this game when I was still a student in 2014. The first year went by quickly and was quite fun. Because during classes, I quietly developed my game on a laptop (my university had no relation to game dev). When the 2nd year of development was already underway, I decided to speed up and release the game into early access. I miscalculated the development and testing time. Therefore, even a day before the release, I was changing the game code and making corrections. Without enough testing, the game was released with critical bugs. That greatly affected sales. I fixed them and released updates with new content, the situation did not change.
In addition, steam also announced that it is closing Green light. I thought that maybe now I have the chance to make and release one more game before Green Light closes. So I decided to freeze the project and switch to a new one (No King No Kingdom). As the years went by, I was busy with new projects. Although I always wanted to return, but doubts held me back. And every year I was further and further away from it.
Recently, there was a massive missile attack on my city. It affected me and made me rethink many stuff. So, I decided that it was important for me to finish my first game, my own souls-like with loot like in D2 zy-el mod :)
Sorry for making you wait) But maybe this pause was for the best, now I have a lot more experience to make a great game.
The first big update is ready! Check out the Major Update