is the game alive? does the update have a chance to release?
Mmm ... it's kinda alive? ^^; It's been on a bit of hiatus as I've been working on other projects (I'm a solo/hobbyist developer), but I do plan on updating it eventually. I recently redid Nixie and Wisteria's sprites, so right now I'm (slowly) working on replacing the old ones and plan on releasing a minor update once all the old sprites have been replaced (including Griffin and Ignus as well). Can't give an exact date, but maybe in a month or so?
As for adding more to the story ... I plan on finishing Nixie and Wisteria's chapter 2 next. Which I'll have a better idea of when that'll happen once I'm done with the minor update and will make a post in the dev's log. Thanks for inquiring ~ ^_^