[IMPORTANT: This announcement is like, 90% yap session. For those who don’t wanna read all that, there is a TD;LR near the bottom of this announcement.] =============================== Hey everyone! There’s no easy way to say this, so this might be kinda sudden. I’ll just say the important thing NOW to not keep y’all waiting: Bluue’s Expedite development will be put on pause for an indefinite amount of time. =============================== Okay, but… Why? I have recently watched a video titled “The Pattern Destroying Indie Game Dreams” by Caidyn. I’m not very good at summarizing, but the main messages of the video was something like this: - If you are creating indie projects, start small. Successful indie creators will often make small projects, gaining experience and knowledge from it, and THEN making those bigger, more ambitious projects. - A common indie dev mistake is starting with projects that are too big and ambitious for their skill level. - By not starting small, indie devs are likely to spend years on an unsuccessful game or a game that never comes out. I think you can see where I’m going with this. Bluue’s Expedite became WAY too ambitious. I realized I was doing that exact same “indie dev mistake.” I went straight from stupid AYS projects to an entire, multi-chapter game. What was originally planned to be a simple fighting/platformer game with 5 short chapters slowly became a beast of a 7 full-length game concept with dozens of enemies and bosses, multiple game-changing mechanics, a full genuine storyline, and more. Now, was that all being made? NO. I pushed myself to jump into the deep end and make a game I couldn't make. I have already spent nearly TWO WHOLE YEARS on Bluue’s Expedite. JUST for NOT EVEN BETA BUILD 3 TO COME OUT YET. Why is that? BARELY ANY PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE. In recent months, development has been incredibly slow. One week averaged a few blocks of code or 1-2 costumes made. Sometimes less, sometimes none. I hated thinking about it, so I denied saying it for months now. Bluue’s Expedite has been in Solo-Development-Hell. “ermmmm we could tell!!” congrats, jimmy smartpants. you get a gold star. So, yeah. Bluue’s Expedite development is paused. I’m unsure of when I will come back to it again, but I need some time away from it to focus on other things. Don’t expect to see anything related to Bluue’s Expedite for a couple months, and likely longer. I also feel the need to clarify that Bluue’s Expedite is NOT completely cancelled. Bluue’s Expedite is essentially my passion project, and I fully intend to come back to it in the future. I put way too much effort into it already, and I’m not just gonna throw away my 30+ page google doc game idea into the trash. That being said, I will be taking a long break from it for now. =============================== So, What Now? With the whole reason of this being “Bluue’s Expedite became too big,” I’ve decided to listen to the video. I will instead be working on smaller projects in the meantime. Ones that don’t have full emotional storylines and 7 planned chapters. I will likely be working on Report-Sama Peak RPG’s small update, as well as the full game of “do not the” (which I am also planning to rename…) After that? Not sure. Only time will tell. The YouTube channel for Bluue’s Expedite will also be rebranded to a channel for my general Scratch content instead of specifically Bluue’s Expedite. It’ll probably rename it to “Bluue’s Scratch Stuff” or something like that. (My MAIN YouTube channel “Bluue49 Scratch” will probably also be renamed to just “Bluue49” with it. Let’s be honest, the channel stopped being a Scratch channel a long time ago.) ============================ To the Expedite fans, sorry it had to go this way, but progress has been MISERABLY slow for the past year. It’s been held together by nothing but hopes and duct tape. I’ll come back to Bluue’s Expedite when I feel that I’m ready. But until then, we’re doin’ other stuff now!! [image of Bluue presenting Report-Sama (styled like peak rpg), Miku holding Generic Player, and Allie] =============================== NOT READING ALLAT ?? (TL;DR) Development for Bluue’s Expedite has been put on pause for an indefinite amount of time. It is NOT CANCELLED, and I fully intend to work on it again in the future. But for now, it is no longer being worked on, because the project has become too ambitious for me to handle at the moment. I will now be focusing on smaller projects instead, like Report-Sama Peak RPG’s update, the full game of “do not the,” and anything else I decide to work on in the future. The YouTube channel for Bluue’s Expedite will be rebranded to a channel for all of my Scratch stuff in general. =============================== Whether it was the whole thing or the TD;LR, thanks for taking the time to read all this. I hope to redeem myself for this setback by bringing more in the future!! See you later!! :D
