lol dev died
No, just been sick as fuck with mono I am still recovering from over 5 months later. I have still tried to work on the game as much as I can, but my energy levels are unpredictable and my memory has been full of a worrying amount of holes. I can either work and produce subpar stuff I'll not only have to redo later but will likely have foggy recollections of, or I can just suck this up and ride out the storm to write as well as I know I can; besides, the update is already 90% finished and it'd be dumb to botch the last bit.
It's finally been on the mend since mid/late February, but progress within the release has been a bit slow as I build up steam to really get cooking. I'm in a good-enough place mentally that I am now starting to have ideas and outlines I write down with passion (which you can check out as pinned messages in the the #redreamer-chat channel of the VN's Discord server), but typing stuff on my phone while stuck in bed to expand upon ideas I want to get to isn't the same as being able to be up and do all the juggled tasks I have on a daily basis (e.g., writing, coding, composing scenes, finding and editing music and SFX, making design documents for artists and contacting them, checking art, editing art for consistency, checking discord, checking sites this game gets distributed to). I can now have those 14-hour days again, but it's just very hard to plan things right now.