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Glitch in the System is being cancelled but more is coming from SPG (other than the Ace Attorney content)

It's with a heavy heart that we have to announce this. It's not the kind of post anyone wants to make or the kind of news anyone wants to share, but I guess it was kind of inevitable.

I could say a lot about this, but the number one reason we've decided to stop working on Glitch on an official capacity is a lack of passion and motivation. Rather than churning out something forced just to finish it, we thought it would be best to end things. There were other factors involved, but we don't want to put the blame on anyone. Really, no one's at fault here. We all have lives and we grow and change as people.

We'll be releasing music and a full synopsis of the story as it was meant to end in the coming days. All artists who did work for this game are welcome to share art that was completed but not released.

Of course, if anyone wants to finish the game themselves, you're more than welcome to. We would be completely okay with that just so long as you contact us first.

That being said, Truth and Consequences is on track to be completed in the next couple years (with the fourth case releasing on March 13th of this year), so there will still be activity and releases here.

As for upcoming projects, there is an original visual novel in the works called Asphodel (running title) that is currently in the planning stage. Without going into too much detail, it's very much a love letter to Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, and related games. Of course, it will be its own thing and we intend to sell it on Steam once completed.

Still, we've had a great run and the love everyone's had for this project has been amazing. This has been an experience none of us will ever forget. And I hope you'll stick around to see what we do in the future. Thank you so much for giving us our start and for playing our games. <3

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Saw a retweet of your glitch in the system post. When will it come out?

I've been told the person who has been working on programming is still working on it, but my last look at their progress several months ago indicated that there's a lot left to do to iron out the bugs and make it flow enough for Sushi and me to write in the dialogue. They've got a whole plan, but I've been so busy with Truth and Consequences that I've been leaving it to them. I'm hoping it's done soon because the ideas are pretty good and the writing process should be smooth once that's started.

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Kinda curious,were you guys ever able to re-release "the boss is nothing" ?

We are currently playtesting the final build. I'm not sure when it will be released, as Dev Sushi and I are working on T&C at the moment, but we do have someone working on that.

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So... we’re still here

We’ve been in the process of fixing up some stuff in the game itself, writing some scripts for Chapter 4 (since the programming will be a bit more complex, we want to know exactly what will be going into it before we’re in the midst of actually programming it), and working on sprites/faces for Chapter 3.

A lot of us have been burned out over the year between school and real life, so we put the game on hold for a while. We want to get back into it and have been making some progress there. But since there’s a lot of new things, we’re also working on getting that taken care of before we go full speed ahead on that.

We also want to let you all know that from this chapter onward, we will be going a slightly different direction in the focus of this game. Not that we’re changing anything dramatically, but Dev Sushi and I (Dev Katie) decided to abandon a lot of the original plans because we’ve grown and changed so much as people and shifted so many of our interests that it wouldn’t be as much fun to make the game we had planned years ago when we were in the community.

With that being said, these coming chapters will absolutely still feature the egos, Jack, and a bunch of references like before, but Sushi and I are letting ourselves gush about some of our newer interests. We started doing this in the last chapter, actually, and I think bringing that passion into what we’re doing will make this game a lot more fun to play.

I’m debating as to whether to say more... but I’m not sure. Either way, I think you’ll enjoy it a lot, whether you’re still in the JSE community or not. It’s mutated into our own thing, and that’s great because it lets us grow as writers and we hope you’ll love it too.

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Hey everyone!

I know we haven’t been updating as much as we should and, due to personal life stuff, we haven’t been as busy on game development. The good news is that we’re back to working on Glitch and thank you so much for boosting our posts about finding help. We couldn’t have done this without the community. I want to get back into delivering updates regularly, and I can’t very well do that without having something to update!

We’ve recently been made aware of some lighting issues in the newest version of Glitch. This is due to the fact that we completely switched the plugin we were using, which took a lot of work and has made the game run much faster. Some of the code was a bit finnicky, which is why players were reporting that certain areas were extremely dark. We’re so sorry about that and are working now to patch that so you can see better!

Additionally, some players with lower end computers were complaining that the Connor chase scene was still lagging for them, even with our lighting update, so we will be turning that back into a cutscene rather than a playable scene. We can’t legally change the code for the engine, so we have to work with RPG Maker MV’s limitations. Hopefully in the future, we can make games on a different engine. A Unity version of RPG Maker is in the works and we’re eyeing that for future projects!

Thanks for all your support and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve got coming up!