-1st half- -A farewell message- Zombie Hunters has been a short scratch game turned a massive passion project far beyond my capabilities. as much as i deeply love this story, this world, these characters. I do not know if i can achieve what i want with this game. All I've wanted to do was tell this story of meaning in meaninglessness, but i fear the truth I've been running from has finally come. Zombie Hunters is a imposable game for me to make. in theory i could, but i haven't. i think its time to finally admit, that Zombie Hunters is never coming out. December 5th 2023 was the day a Zombie hunters teaser was posted on my alt account on scratch. That was the worlds (nobody saw that post) first look at ZH. December 22nd 2023 was the day i posted the proof of concept game to scratch (the original Zombie hunters). In early January 2024 i began work on a sequel to that proof of concept (which turned into what Zombie Hunters is now). I never started work on actually making the game (art, music, code) the game was only ever in a playing around with the story stage. I had a lot of ideas in the first 6 months, things changed, eventually Gem, and Max were renamed Helen and Scott, Helen was turned into a 14 year old Girl and finally given hair lol, the setting was turned more dystopian, i took more and more inspiration from half life 2. there were many older plots i remember only two i have written down, and they are from after the first 6 months (sometime in 2025) I'm working on a 2nd draft. Not because i want to continue work on a "imposable project". But because i still believe in the story, characters, and messages i was trying to throw into that game. and I'm going to be honest here. looking back, i was really just a kid with a ambitious story that required more skill then I had. My passion for storytelling has not gone, its still there and very much something i want to pursue. And my love for ZH is not gone, and ZH will live on with me until it finally receives a home. Wheater that home is a video game, movie, comic book, novel, or whatever else. And i will also admit my skills improved drastically while working on ZH. But knowing what i know now, being who i am now, growing even just a few months older, i realize, i cant make a game like this. And that's not because i don't want to, but its because i cant, i was never good with gameplay and I've always known. the game i have while impressive for a scratch title is not worth releasing as a full on title, even though it'd be free. I respect my younger self and his work too much to release a project i do not like, when i went into ZH (after the 6 months in 2024) i wanted to make a game the way i wanted, the length i wanted, no matter how long it'd take me. well 2 years later here i am, knowing i failed. I've been thinking about turning Zombie Hunters into a comic book. Id need to learn about art (since my is awful) but i think it might be promising. although unlike the game, i will not build hype for something I'm not sure will come to fruition. And if I'm being honest, i should've kept this version of zombie hunters a small cool looking scratch game. I sincerely apologize for what I've done, I'm deeply moved by the very small amount of you all that keep coming back to orally support this little game. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much. You all have no idea how much this all meant to me.
-2nd half- and that leads me to my final message here. i want you all to know i will be quitting making games, not because i don't like it, but because it isn't the same as it once was. i started this all when i made my scratch account when i was 10 going on 11 in 2021. Ill never forget September 9th 2021, but it is now January 14th 2026, I'm not that little kid anymore, ill be turning 16 in November. still a kid, just not very little. And through this all i cant help but shed a tear and smile a little remembering it all. Or something corny like that. It makes me unreasonably emotional knowing that people cared about my stupid little games. and they cared about the one i cared most about too. Its been only a little over 4 years now. but this has felt like apart of me for so long. and i understand why, for the entirety of my teenage years thus far this has been something that's been there. I remember all the embarrassing things i posted on scratch i cringe at now from when i was younger. I remember all the games i made and the ones i never finished. I remember first making "scratch_man1232 games" then rebranding as "standard studios", and then rebranding to "snowy games". All great memories, from time past. And even with my distain for where scratch has been going and what they've been doing. Scratch can never take away those memories i had, no matter how much they ruin their site. I remember when i first found scratch and followed all those tutorials built in, i felt like the smartest person ever. I remember watching through a DSAF playthrough of all the games through a few late nights and making "Work at a chuck-e-beez" after. I remember working on the OG ONAS game for 9 months and then making a way better remaster in 3 weeks in 2024. (But if i made that remaster now it wouldve been so much better) I remember seeing some zombie games on scratch i thought were bad and made the original Zombie hunters proof of concept on scratch (which was also bad). I remember saying i was quitting then taking it back after i found out how many people were actually sad about that news. this time, I'm not taking it back. As i come to grow older (I'm not very old) i find myself finally letting go of things, this is one of them. Maybe one day ill provide all the game files i have to you all. but for now, ill keep em. there are a few names in specific i really want to thank after all these years Thank you @mynamesley (aka brightmoon_ley on gamejolt) for always being there when i was making a game and supporting me in the comments, ive always considered you a friend, even if we haven't spoken as much as i make it seem. Thank you @ijsutnedanameforthis (aka MohamadAli_ca5e on gamejolt) for being such a fan of my work, I couldnt imagine a more faithful fan then you, thank you so much for your love, and for the chance to do all of this. There are others i want to thank but i have not spoken to them in a long time and many of them are gone off scratch. But i will still thank them Thank you @hothomas3 Thank you @Master-of-Cheese Thank you @paul_tv2 Thank you all for everything. From the bottom of my heart Thank you so much Its been fun truly i couldn't imagine having met better people -Games laid to rest- Rest in peace: Long Gone Highway 56 exit 29 Work at a chuck-e-beez remastered ONAS2 Raise a kkoma 2 The rest of the episodes for Mario goes to Walmart to get milk Athazagoraphobia 2 and the Athazagoraphobia remake Flower of Hope and finally REST-IN-PEACE ZOMBIE HUNTERS Thank you all for everything this is scratch_man1232 signing off for the final time Jesus loves you goodbye may we meet again -scratch_man1232
