Oh I'm sorry for not keeping things up to date here on itchio. I have a bad habit of only posting updates on one platform and expecting everyone to see them. (Twitter, YouTube and Discord being the platforms I'm most active on and where I do most of my shitposting about the game. Follow me there to see more about the game!)
Since I missed all the deadlines so royally, I've been feeling iffy about posting updates that are anything but the definite release date. While the game is very very close to being done, I still haven't got a release date that I could trust to hold 100%. A big reason for this being that there hasn't been a large scale testing done yet and a whole slew of bugs and things to fix can come from there. Thus I've stayed quiet about release dates and only posted random screenshots, videos and such.
It might be hard to believe considering the circumstances, but there actually haven't been any real hiccups in the development and I can't say that the plague in the outside world has affected the development that much either - the biggest problem is that I'm really bad at estimating how long certain things take to make. Also after I missed the initial release window I had in mind, I took a step back and polished and expanded some things to make the eventual release more worth it. That obviously added to the development time. When I was first rushing the release a year ago, the initial release I had in mind was way more bare bones and honestly the people who would've expected as much content as the first game has after all the updates would've probably been disappointed with the end product. With the additional expansions I'm pretty happy with what's in the game now.
So yeah... I know people would like to have a release date, but I'm afraid I don't have one. Hopefully this message at least alleviates some of the worries.