Hi! I have some updates about the game's development.
First, the good news: I have found some people willing to work on the game, including graphics designers, sound designers, and another programmer. Together, we will make the game great again. Yes, we can! More catchphrases!
Now the bad news: As you may have noticed, recently the "More like this" section on Steam changed and now seems to show random popular games. I can't tell if that is a bug or intentional, but this may have some effect on small indie developers, including us. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share any details about that publicly, let's just say that it is obvious that the games get less visibility if they are less often displayed in that section.
Anyway, that finally convinced me that it won't work this way. I can't just work full-time on the game and improve it and hope that it will magically attract enough players to fund the development. That's not how things work in this world.
That doesn't mean that the game won't get updates, there are still other people working on the game and I will do the business stuff and work on the programming whenever there is time.
But, for some limited amount of time, I will have to do freelancing, meaning I'll write code for other people and companies. Fortunately, I live in Germany, where I can actually earn quite much doing freelancing (about €100/hr), so I will do that and make some money to pay for game-related stuff (and for my cost of living), until the game gets better and more popular and this won't be necessary anymore. Or maybe I will continue this as a side gig, but my main goal is to make a great game for you to enjoy.
I know, many of you are waiting for more updates and I'm sorry to say they will probably slow down a little bit (depending on how much paid work I have to do) over the next months, but over a longer period of time this will make the game better than would be possible by just working on it and not earning enough money to pay for everything. Ideally, you guys would just buy the game often enough and I would focus on it, but for that I would need to do marketing, which I can't really do because there are unfinished 3D models and no animations and I only recently found someone who can and will create them.