That's very kind of you to say, but it's over as far as I'm concerned. I'm working long term on other things now and couldn't extract myself from that even if I wanted to. Noob's situation changed last year such that he no longer had the free time to code this thing, and he wasn't willing to bring someone else in to do it. Am I happy about that? No, not really. Cloud 10 really was my dream project and there was so much more I wanted to do with it - with Iannan, with its world and characters. I wanted to collaborate with the creative people I've gotten to know through this work to do expansively erotic things. I regard what's there as nothing more than a half-finished foundation, and it is a very bitter thing that this has become another dead end for the character it was all originally set up to tell the story of, Hand So. However, it was Noob's backing and programming acumen that made the whole thing possible in the first place. If he can't do it he can't do it. It's that simple.
Honestly if it ever became possible to get the engines running again I'd come back and pick C10 up again, of course I would. But we should be realistic and say there's dozens of games out there that got abandoned before they really got going and it's almost certainly not going to happen. There isn't any bad blood between me and Noob - he was very generous in his support of me for quite some time and I recognise that in his field time constraints are a constantly changing thing. There was a difference in opinion though in terms of the game's scope that coloured his decision to pull the plug. That's a very common problem that I'm striving now not to replicate.
Thank you to all who happen to be reading this or ever had their head in the clouds for your support. It was a nice thing while it lasted.
