Status Update


 I had to pause Kingdom Lost’s development the previous month since I didn’t get the required assets in time and it also looked like I wasn’t going to get them any time soon. So today I decided to explain the situation a bit.

 For a long time we are both having hard times in our lives, we both felt a huge pressure to earn money for a long time besides many other issues in our personal life. To be honest, our lives are full of shit and escaping this life I had was the biggest motivation for me since the beginning. 3 years ago I started developing this game without zero knowledge of any kind of game development and anything related. I’d stay awake for 2 days doing nothing but work. It was suffocating and highly inefficient, but that was the result of the stress I was under. I was fully aware that I wasn’t going to accomplish my goals in a short amount of time so I bit my tongue and continued.

 So I fully understand what ShySeel is going through. A little clarification, she’s my wife and I’m doing my best to support her. Even though it’s been 2.5 years since she started working on Kingdom Lost, she felt the pressure every day, just like I did. I can’t blame her for not being able to catch up to her deadlines, she’s been exhausting herself for 2.5 years just like I did, except I found a way to cope with the situation somewhat. It’s only normal that she burned out. I told her to take her time before coming back to the project and also she’s welcome to leave the project if this isn’t what she wants to do.

 I want to go into a stable development process and I also want to see her enjoy working on this project as much as me and our other members. For her, Kingdom Lost’s and our future projects wellbeing, I’d like her to take her time off as much as she needs before she gets back to work. Payments will be paused until we release an update.


 Since we won't be releasing an update for a while, I started adding touch screen and mouse support everywhere. I didn't have any proper framework that supports all 4 different type of inputs before, so it takes time and I think this is a good chance to finally add that. I'm also separating load, options and key bindings menu so they'll work like just like how they work in main menu in game, players won't have to go to main menu for those menus.

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Maybe I'm not the one to say this (because i dont making a donation), but i really thanks the report that you make to say how is advancing the process of game, and i really love your game, but i really think that this proyect should be taking with calm. 

I dont know a lot about making a game but i know that is difficult program one web page, i wont want to imagine how stressful and hard is programming a game, and not only programming, designing, fixing bugs... with only two persons.

You are being supporting with donations, yeah, but is for supporting and help just a little to make better the game. You are doing a amazing job, really an amazing job, your game is in early steps yes, buy is really enjoyable and have a good challenge to play. Take this proyect with love and dont think this as a responsability, because there are already enough in the day to day.

Is really amazing all what you two have done with this game, and there are some players that would said the same, as will be people who are waiting for the next update with joy and happiness.

Good luck, and i really hope that you rest and solve all your problems (^^)

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 Thank you very much, money isn’t motivation, it's a requirement for us. It doesn’t matter if you are paying us or not, as a group of artists, we do what we love but that doesn’t mean we don’t care if people like it or not, hearing people's opinion whether or not they are paying, is equally important for us.

 That aside, each feedback makes this game better, which makes it a game that people want to support by paying. We give people who pay us different privileges because we want to thank them in some way, since each dolar makes our lives easier, reducing our stress and thus fueling our creativity, letting us further improve the game, but hearing players' opinions is also a huge inspiration and motivation for us. I don’t want people to think that we care less about their opinions just because they don’t pay us, that’s not true. Thanks for your kind words.

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Hi, I may not also be in a position to say this since I am playing your games for free (I wanted to support your game but I am currently poor), but you guys are doing great. I hope you guys overcome whatever problems you are currently facing, we love your game

 Thank you for your support, it doesn't matter whether you pay or not, we care about our players all the same. Your opinion, feedback and support just as valuable.