Zolvatory
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Discontinuation of the Project
🕑 Added 2023-10-27 20:10:36 +0000 UTCHello everyone,
We regrettably have to announce that the project will not be continued. We are terribly sorry to deliver such a message to all of our supporters and followers. The love we felt from the community so far has been incredible and it really hurts us to disappoint expectations by failing the project and therefore all of you.
We still ask for your understanding as to our decision and will explain why we came to the conclusion that this was the necessary choice to make.
As of April 2023, there has been a strong disagreement between two members of the team which resulted in permanent damage of the teams cohesion. It left us unable to work together without further mental health sacrifices. Attempts were made to keep the project alive as best as possible but the tension made clear that the project can't succeed this way nor can it be solved by replacing the members. Our final decision as of the end of September was to end the project entirely.
Furthermore, as each team member loves the project and the community, we don't want to end it without giving anything back. We hope that we can still keep the community alive and continue to enjoy our time together. More information will follow, but first we need to address refunds.
Refunds
- We plan on refunding everyone's payments of August, September and October 2023. For this we will send out a Patreon Private Message to everyone that is currently one of our patrons. Please check your inbox and respond that you would like the refund. We plan to have everyone refunded by the end of the year and only requests before this time limit will be refunded.
- The masterminds ($500-tier) will have the options of accepting a full refund or have their promised characters created. This will include 1 sketch, 1 sprite and all +18 animations (1 animation with 3 variations and 1 animation with 3 intensities + background).
- By request masterminds are also allowed to wish for more animations like idle, walking and attack if desired. The rights to those characters and artworks will also fully belong to them.
- Full refunds will also be available to big contributors to the community which we will contact.
If you notice your refund hasn’t been taken care of by the end of next month, please contact us.
What we still want to give
As we would like the community to get something for their support over the years, the following has been decided:
- We plan on stopping the payment of patrons, yet still plan on posting content to make up for their loss. These are things we still want to work on while not accepting any new payments, to make up for the cancellation of the game.
- Finish every designed characters +18 animation. Every teased character will get 1 sprite, 1 sketch and ALL +18 scenes for those characters including at least one background per character. They will also receive their fully written dialogues and descriptions in the form of character sheets. This will include up to at least 10 characters, resulting in 29 18+ animations.
- The masterminds characters, if given permission, will be created with the formerly mentioned content. Their characters will be the first ones to be worked on if the concept has been approved by them.
- Possibility of weekly art-streams until all the work is done, if the community would welcome it.
- Making a big roadmap for the game, which includes a detailed summary of what the story and its plot points were going to be, character descriptions, game mechanics and boss fights. Character descriptions would be in the form of previously mentioned character sheets and, of course, their appearance in the story would be written about in the story summary.
- Implementing necessities for what is still being created (gallery mode, scenes, etc.)
- Cleaning up problematic code left in the project.
- Once all of these tasks are done, we will combine our work in a big file to be uploaded outside of Patreon and make it accessible for free to everyone. More info to follow once we got that far in the future.
Again, we are deeply sorry for this. All of us never expected such circumstances to ever arise and affect us. Thank you so much for your support up until this point. It was an irreplaceable and wonderful experience.
- The Zolvatory Team
Comments
Wynne Owens
Such a shame. Hate to see such an amazing project going down. I hope things work out for the whole team sorry this happened.
Smohn Jith
This project has so much potential, I'm sad to hear of it's cancellation. Still, I appreciate all you guys have done to get this far. I hope there can eventually be a full version of this game made, either by the Zolvatory team or a worthy successor sooner or later, the concept, setting, and characters are all phenomenal. Sorry to hear it end like this :(
