{"id":49,"date":"2024-12-24T21:54:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vibezen.top\/2024\/12\/24\/a-short-hike-dev-halts-work-on-unfinished-rpg-saying-i-might-never-finish-this-so-im-releasing-the-demo-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T21:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T21:54:25","slug":"a-short-hike-dev-halts-work-on-unfinished-rpg-saying-i-might-never-finish-this-so-im-releasing-the-demo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vibezen.top\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"A Short Hike dev halts work on unfinished RPG, saying, “I might never finish this, so I’m releasing the demo!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The developer behind A Short Hike has shelved development on an RPG but is releasing it as a demo, allowing players to enjoy it nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Adam “adamgryu” Robinson-Yu started Untitled Paper RPG back in 2016, saying, “I was nostalgic for the old style of Paper Mario and thought – well, I make games, why not try making the game I want to see? I started cooking something up in Unity and\u2026 it looked cool! I thought, maybe I really could make this game.”<\/p>\n

Now, almost 10 years later, Robinson-Yu said they felt “overwhelmed”, adding “the scope felt too big, I didn’t have a story”, doubts crept in about the turn-based combat, and “in general, started to lose the joy that I felt working on it”.<\/p>\n

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A Short Hike – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch

A Short Hike – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch.Watch on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

“After releasing A Short Hike and working on the subsequent updates and ports\u2026 I didn’t really want to go back to this game?” Robinson-Yu admitted. “The development for the RPG had become difficult, which was why I took a break from it in the first place. I might return to this project someday, but I’ve been working on other things and don’t see myself making time for this RPG in near future.”<\/p>\n

Consequently, if you pop on over to the official website, you can download a demo with one to two hours of content for both PC and Mac.<\/p>\n

“Some people still ask about this game! I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing,” Robinson-Yu added, explaining why it’s been released as a demo. “There is 1-2 hours of gameplay in the current build, after all. There’s some stuff in there that I’m proud of, even if there’s also some stuff that I find embarrassing! Hope you enjoy taking a peek behind the curtain at a game partway through an aimless development.”<\/p>\n

“Just finished a few minutes ago,” said one player in the comments. “This was a wonderful demo. I had a gut feeling you wouldn’t go back to this, but I never expected you’d actually drop a demo of what you have put together. It already has so much of the personality, humour, attention to detail and innate Nintendo-esque playfulness that defined your work on A Short Hike – and this was first!<\/p>\n

“Thank you for taking the big leap of putting this out there!”<\/p>\n

As for what else Robinson-Yu has planned? That includes an action aventure game, a “micro-RPG with a claymation asethetic”, and an online platforming roguelike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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