UNDERFELL’s development may come to a halt shortly after Episode 2, as in: completely and utterly.
You heard that right, UNDERFELL’s development may be ending once and for all.
Basically, after Episode 2 is released we will have two more large updates and then, unless things change for the better: it’s over.
Many of you have noticed that this blog has reverted to mostly reblogs and no real news regarding the game: that’s because there really hasn’t been any news. Development of Episode 2 is nearly done, but there’s nothing else to talk about. I’ve already covered it in the patch notes that have been posted recently.
UNDERFELL is extremely expensive to develop for the quality that it currently is and that I hope to achieve. My primary source of income goes to living expenses and then to UNDERFELL. This game is extremely difficult to keep going in the current year, 2018, 2 years after UNDERTALE was released.
With the fandom dying down to a few select communities and only be referenced in others, it’s safe to say that many have moved on from the experience that was UNDERTALE. This is normal and expected. However, regardless of our promotional material - we’ve been unable to pull more people in. We can’t simply just “update” the game and “make it better.” It takes lots of time and lots of money to do so.
I had attempted to circumvent these living expenses with my Patreon, which can’t be used for UNDERFELL. My Patreon helps me massively, but with only two dozen patrons at varying tiers it’s simply not enough to contribute to the beast that is living expenses.
My Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/ManiaKnight and my Ko-fi is here if you’re interested: https://ko-fi.com/A871AMW. But this isn’t the point of this post.
* So, what’s going to happen if things don’t change?
UNDERFELL will cease development permanently shortly after Episode 2. The Echo update will be revamped, and then the conclusion will be developed - the end of UNDERFELL’s storyline. We would be effectively skipping Waterfall and Hotland for this, so I can at least provide the ending of the story should these woes continue. This final episode would likely be less than half the duration of Episode 2. There’s nothing we can do about that.
* Do you have any other reasons why this would happen?
While I would love to try and scrape by with what money I have left to work on UNDERFELL, I have to focus on my original projects, such as Lovecraft. I can’t keep working on a game that provides zero revenue back. That’s not how the world works. This game was made as a love letter to the community and was originally not as ambitious as it had been before - but because of how people’s interests work, if it wasn’t: this game would never have been able to garner a decent following. Everything in UNDERFELL is custom, and literally NOTHING is reused from other games (except for the huge UNDERTALE inspiration, obviously?)
I need to focus on building a better life for myself and others, as does everyone in this world.
This can still change, however.
If things improve on my end and I’m able to give more towards the development of the game, we’ll remain on-track. Currently, it costs around 1 to 2 grand ($1,000/$2,000) over the course of half a year to develop one episode depending on the complexity and content (episode 2 is currently the most expensive). That’s quite a lot of money for us. So, we’ll just have to see how this all pans out.
tl;dr: UNDERFELL is expensive, and unless I can find a way to put more of my own personal money towards it without breaking Toby Fox’s crowdfunding rules, it’s cancelled. We’re doing what we can to give you more content before this potentially happens.
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