Hi all! This is definitely way later than the monthly updates I intended for the devlogs this summer, and I'm super sorry for that. I don't dive into my personal life super deep on here but things have just been way more hectic and stressful than usual, especially with me being in the US right now trying to rapid-fire finish my spouses visa paperwork. I live in a really rural southern area, so you can imagine why I'm so stressed. That said, that's no excuse for not giving any real updates and I apologize.

The truth is, I'm not the same person I was when I started LyteLove and its become harder and harder to work on it and finish it, it's become more of a chore than anything. All that's really left for a full release is to finalize and implement sprites, and our qa passes. Voice lines, stickers, routes, etc are all in and proofed. But I physically can't make myself keep working on this, everytime I open the canvas I just stare at them for hours because its so time consuming and I just don't have the energy or interest enough to properly complete them. 

SO what's going to happen? 

Currently it could be a few things, It's not been fully decided yet which is part of why I'm making this post. We'll be doing one of the following: 

• Releasing the game without sprites.
• Releasing the game as a pre-release without sprites and including them at a later date with an art book/bts for all the other scrapped assets in the game (Like all the CG sketches) 
• Delaying release in the hopes of finding a compatible artist to finish my sprite work.
• Delaying release in the hopes of finding an artist to do sprites from scratch 
• and if it doesnt get properly published in some way by me: Abandonware/Uploaded as is with the code open source on my github.

None of them are truly options I'm happy with, but I feel like the game has too many people still downloading it for me to fully abandon it, despite how much I loathe working on it now. I don't like leaving things unfinished anyways, so the game will still get at least one more update . If you have thoughts on what you guys would prefer, please feel free to comment them. And if you want to take a stab at the sprites yourself, message me on discord or twitter @xenubin ! Otherwise, expect some sort of update to the game files on here before the end of the year. and again sorry for all the delays!