First of all sorry for my bad english.
Second of all I am writing here about thoughts I have. Some may feel personally attacked by my post which is not my intention.
There is something about which I wanted to write for a couple of weeks now, but I have not found time for it.
When I first found this website and read about the project I was really amazed. I always loved BOTF and I am still playing it from time to time and a sequel would be great. But then I began wondering if it is realistic. I am a programmer myself and have done very small games and the stuff, which is discussed in the Game Request topics was just "hillarious". Especially when it comes to the AI, for example that it should be able to learn. Some stuff was discussed a whole team of professional programmers would not accomplish (I do not want to say that gavin is not a pro).
But all of this I hoped was just the excitement of the other fans.
Regarding the game it was very quiet for a long time, but then in the summer it began that stuff has been announced (screenshots, video, demo) and from this point of time, people were asking for the release of this stuff.
As far as I know, the video has not been released yet, there has been not even half a dozen screenies and the demo which has been announced for release more than a month ago is also not available, there have always been some coincidences.
Regarding the screenies I just can't imagine that it takes that long to make a screencap if I have a running game.
Regarding the demo. I think it was announced during a weekend for the release the next weekend. Then the tragedy of the death of his friends relative came into gavins life (life really sucks sometimes) and stops the demo being released.
But at this point the demo should have needed only about 7 days for completion but this was more than a month ago. I know Gavin is now busy with moving house, but I just talk about my own experience. If I have a program near completion, I know there is more little stuff to be done than first expected and it takes longer although you already see the finishing line but after that a long time of work I would be so eager to complete the demo just to release it and let the game go for a couple of time.
Again this is no personal attack but sometimes I feel like the whole story is like a hoax or at least the game is not quite as far as told by some people.
Of course I hope I am totally wrong and there is already a very cool BOTF 2 out there near completion.
One thing: I don't even expect an answer from one of the guys, but on the other hand I do not really want an answer from people who have not seen anything from the actual game and can just say "Of course there is a game and it is near completion" or something like that.
As I said, these are just my thoughts, don't be angry.
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