The last time I released a game update was January 31st, 2023. The end date for the ongoing issues in my personal life is still unknown and the time I have available for project development is variable at best. Rather than leave the question of what I intend to do for 2024 unanswered, I will definitively state my course of action.

I have decided that the 1st anniversary of the previous update is a “Make-or-Break” deadline for the next release. On January 31^st, 2024, one of the following outcomes will have happened: I finally figured out how to juggle the oddly shaped days of my current situation and released another game update. Or, I am unable to release an update because my current situation is incompatible with visual novel development.

The former outcome changes the status quo, but the pace of development would still be slow until my situation changes. However, the latter outcome means I would put a hard pause on development to stop splitting my focus. This includes unpublishing and stopping payments on my various support pages, preventing any posts on my Discord server so I no longer have to monitor it, and so on. It would be a complete withdrawal from the development scene and my public online presence, returning to development only when my circumstances allow me to do so.

One way or the other, the answer will be revealed by the end of January.