Well, I have some bad news...
I think I'm going to stop development...For good...
Over the past year, I've focused so much on this game, only to have a handful of people even acknowledge it. It's as if no one wants to give feedback, criticism, or even play the game, and it's been like that since I started working on it last year.
I see other fan games getting all kinds of attention. People actually giving feedback, suggesting ideas, etc. It honestly makes me sad to see how bad my game gets ignored. Even after I won Best of Zelda in this years NCFC...I also see other fan games and just think "Wow, that looks so amazing. How am I ever going to top that?" The way I see it, developers within the fan game community have to try and make their game the best of the best. I mean, who wouldn't?
After NCFC this year, I took a break to go work on other games...Original games. I felt confident that no one would be able to make a better, or more "professional" fan game than I have. Boy, was I wrong. I planned on coming back after a week, but it turned into a much longer period of absence. During this time, a few new fan games started progressing more, and even some new ones popped up. Chiming Bells...The Midnight Radiance...Horn of Balance...
Chiming Bells: My main "enemy." I don't know if King Tetiro felt the same, but I felt as if I was competing with his game, even after NCFC. I'd go to the Game Maker Community and see people praising his game, whereas they had disliked mine a while back. Of course, he deserves the praise. He's been faithful to his game, and has developed his much further than mine. He has a story, NPCs, actual game content, etc.
I started feeling like my fan game was dead. So, I decided to start a new, original project. I've always been pressured to create something original rather than a fan game. And I must say, I have more freedom, a larger creative window, etc.
I've spent most of my time the past few weeks working on a new game of mine called Desertion. I doubt that'll ever been completed either, but oh well...I've just lost my enthusiasm for game development in general, and it's only going to keep decreasing.
I'm not going to release the source, but I'll answer any questions regarding the story of the game, what I was going to add to the game, development, etc.