A Quick 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 submit on his Itch.io web page, Robinson-Yu says that after taking a break from Untitled Paper RPG to work on A Quick Hike, in addition to its numerous ports and updates, he discovered he “did not actually wish to return to [Untitled Paper RPG]”.
He says growth on the undertaking “had turn out to be tough”, which was the explanation for taking a break from it so as to work on A Quick 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 provides numerous causes for Untitled Paper RPG’s growth changing into tough, together with overscoping, a scarcity 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, should you ask me.
Nonetheless, should you do wish to know the way Untitled Paper RPG may 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 initiatives, together with an “action-adventure sport”, a “micro-RPG with a claymation aesthetic”, and “an internet platforming roguelike”. It isn’t 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 Quick Hike is on the market now for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Swap, and you may play it on all of these consoles’ successors by backwards compatibility as properly.
