VA-11 Hall-A sequel N1RV Ann-A delayed indefinitely
With 2020 winding down, there's not much time left for games to meet their 2020 release window. Sukeban Games, developer of VA-11 Hall-A, realizing this has decided to delay their sequel to the aforementioned game, N1RV Ann-A. Previously scheduled for a launch in sometime 2020, N1RV Ann-A no longer has a release timeframe and has been pushed back indefinitely, with Sukeban Games stating that creative differences were the reason behind the delay. In the meantime, the studio will be focusing on working on and marketing their other games instead, until N1RV Ann-A is closer to completion.
The first falling of the delays fall squarely on my field. When N1RV Ann-A started production back in 2017 as the framework for another unrelated project that also needed a lot of text to be processed, it was still Kiririn and I handling things, so we kept work as we did during the VA-11 Hall-A days. As time went on and a lot of life-changing events happened I refused to relent control of the code even though we now had extra hands programming to help us with everything. The result was that I was heavily burned out while still insisting on being the sole programmer, the progress was really slow at this stage as a result.
How slow you ask? When I finally relented control of the code for the game to be rebuilt from scratch at the beginning of 2020 our programmer was able to rebuild everything I had done up till that point through explanations in about a month or less. With another month he was able to add a lot of missing features I outlined but wasn’t able to code in a timely manner.
With this you might be wondering why we didn’t make any faster progress. After all, if the framework was ready you just had to put stories in it. And the answer to that is creative differences. Thanks to circumstances I won’t go into detail here, there was an internal conflict on how the story should go. Ironing out those problems took time but the end result is a version of the story far better than anything we had previously envisioned.
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