Officially taking a break from development


Hello there everyone. Hope you're all doing alright.


In April 2022 I decided I wanted to try and make a game, just to see how far I could take it. Chimera's first preview was released in July of the same year and despite being a buggy mess it received incredible amounts of support, which helped me not only fix the game but learn a lot about game development.


It was an excellent experience for me and I do not regret a single second I spent working on this game, but things were very different for me in 2022. It was a year full of uncertainty and frustration, but I also had enough free time to be able to work on a passion project like this. Things have started to change and I unfortunately I cannot commit my time to developing the game in a steady pace anymore. Even if I did continue to work on the game, the windows between updates would only start to grow bigger.


In a way , it was starting to become irresponsible of me to put too much time in a passion project which, while I enjoyed working on, wasn't contributing much to my personal life. It's not an easy decision or one I think most people will find agreeable but I am putting Chimera on an indefinite hiatus until I can assert that working on it won't put the rest of my responsibilities in jeopardy.


The game's Ko-Fi has been paused for a while now and I have refunded the last active month to all subscribers, it was only fair. I am very thankful to everyone who ever pitched in a bit of money. While it wasn't  a fortune, I would not be where I am today without the extra bits donated  by some very kind people.


The only thing I can hope for is that the game made someone's day a little better at some point. Thank you all for sticking around. Catch you later.

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Just found the game today. Wish you the best, hope things are going better for ya now

Just heard about the indefinite hiatus and I thought the game was really fun. I hope you come back and continue it one day!!

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I'm really sorry to hear this but I fully understand, real life does come first, no matter what. The game has been very fun to keep up with and I suspect will be fun on repeat playthroughs whenever I get a craving for it. I'll keep an eye out for you popping into my feed  again at some point but for now I'll say goodbye!