A Brief Hike developer Adam Robinson-Yu has introduced that he is ceased work on his venture Untitled Paper RPG, however he is launched a free demo if you wish to understand how the sport would have turned out.
In a weblog put up on his Itch.io web page, Robinson-Yu says that after taking a break from Untitled Paper RPG to work on A Brief Hike, in addition to its numerous ports and updates, he discovered he “did not actually need to return to [Untitled Paper RPG]”.
He says growth on the venture “had change into tough”, which was the explanation for taking a break from it with a purpose to work on A Brief Hike. The sport technically is not fully canceled; Robinson-Yu says he “would possibly return” to it sometime, however that he “[doesn’t] see [himself] making time for this RPG in close to future”.
Robinson-Yu offers numerous causes for Untitled Paper RPG’s growth changing into tough, together with overscoping, an absence of narrative focus, and “doubts” in regards to the recreation’s turn-based fight, which he says ended up feeling like “an annoying impediment”.
Ultimately, Robinson-Yu says he merely “began to lose the enjoyment that [he] felt engaged on [Untitled Paper RPG]”, which is normally a fairly good signal that it is time to cease and search for one thing new, for those who ask me.
Nonetheless, for those who do need to understand how Untitled Paper RPG might need turned out, then there is a free demo obtainable from Robinson-Yu’s Itch.io web page proper now. It constitutes round an hour or two of gameplay, however do not anticipate it to really feel like a completed product.
As for what Robinson-Yu is engaged on subsequent, he says he is began just a few tasks, together with an “action-adventure recreation”, a “micro-RPG with a claymation aesthetic”, and “an internet platforming roguelike”. It is not clear whether or not any of those video games will see the sunshine of day, after all.
If you wish to take a look at what Robinson-Yu was doing throughout his Untitled Paper RPG sabbatical, A Brief Hike is on the market now for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Change, and you may play it on all of these consoles’ successors via backwards compatibility as effectively.
