A Brief Hike developer Adam Robinson-Yu has introduced that he is ceased work on his undertaking Untitled Paper RPG, however he is launched a free demo if you wish to know the way 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 varied ports and updates, he discovered he “did not actually need to return to [Untitled Paper RPG]”.
He says improvement on the undertaking “had turn out to be troublesome”, which was the rationale for taking a break from it with a view to work on A Brief Hike. The sport technically is not utterly 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 varied causes for Untitled Paper RPG’s improvement changing into troublesome, together with overscoping, an absence of narrative focus, and “doubts” in regards to the sport’s turn-based fight, which he says ended up feeling like “an annoying impediment”.
In the long run, Robinson-Yu says he merely “began to lose the enjoyment that [he] felt engaged on [Untitled Paper RPG]”, which is often a fairly good signal that it is time to cease and search for one thing new, when you ask me.
Nevertheless, when you do need to know the way 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 sport”, a “micro-RPG with a claymation aesthetic”, and “a web-based platforming roguelike”. It isn’t clear whether or not any of those video games will see the sunshine of day, in fact.
If you wish to try what Robinson-Yu was doing throughout his Untitled Paper RPG sabbatical, A Brief Hike is accessible 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 properly.
