Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I last posted xD. Did you miss me...? (I hear a 'no' from afar XD).

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who downloaded (or even just visited the page of) my new game Yann. I hope you enjoyed it, despite the gameplay being totally different from the visual novel Mysteries of the Twos!

For those who would like to play or visit the page, it's right here: Yann

I wanted to take advantage of this post to explain why I’ve been absent for so long and why, for now, I haven’t been able to release part 2 of Mysteries of the Twos...

I/ The current situation:

For those who don’t know, at the beginning of May 2024, about four months ago, my computer, on which I was working on the game, suddenly stopped functioning... 

And by that, I mean that from one day to the next, 

my computer refused to turn on...

I thought it was a battery issue, but after going to see an IT technician, he told me that the motherboard of the computer had died (RIP DX!), and that there had been a short circuit, though he couldn’t really explain it...

So, I asked the technician to recover my data, particularly the source of Mysteries of the Twos along with all the illustrations and animations I had prepared, and to transfer everything to an external hard drive so that I could retrieve it all...

Unfortunately, you know the rest... 

He couldn’t recover anything from Mysteries of the Twos... 

Neither the source of the game nor the illustrations.

In short... NOTHING.

Thankfully, I had saved backups of the game’s base (prologue and the first part of the game), as well as most of the illustrations, sketches, and animations on an external hard drive...

But from that broken computer... 

I lost EVERYTHING... 

Including the game base and the illustrations for the second part of

Mysteries of the Twos.

This is really heartbreaking because I had made so much progress on part 2... I was so close to finishing it and releasing it... but now, I have to redo everything... including some drawings that are permanently lost.

To be honest, this isn’t the first time I’ve had problems with creating this game...

For example, I use Visual Novel Maker to create the game, and about two years ago, a few months before I posted the prologue of Mysteries of the Twos on itch.io, I had coded EVERYTHING on a single base (THE WHOLE GAME!! I only had a few illustrations left to finalize and some character design improvements...).

One day, I tried to open it as usual, but the file got corrupted, and Visual Novel Maker no longer recognized it. I even tried on another computer and re-downloaded Visual Novel Maker... but nothing worked...

I was forced to start everything over again. That’s actually why the game is divided into multiple parts, and to this day, only the prologue and the first part have been released.

Anyway, I’ve faced quite a few challenges while making this game, and if one day I have the time, I plan to make a humorous YouTube video listing all the problems I’ve encountered with this game xD. 

. 

.. 

... 

...But sometimes, beyond simple coincidence or bad luck... 

I feel like I’m cursed... 

...Like I’m losing control over the creation of this game... 

Sometimes, I even wonder if some malevolent force is trying to stop me from finishing or making progress on it...

 ...It's too creepy... but probably not true... right...? 

... 

.. 

.

II/ What I plan to do and ongoing projects:

So as you might have guessed... I haven’t been able to make progress on part 2 of Mysteries of the Twos since the incident in May 2024...

I currently have a backup computer, and I plan to buy a more powerful one as well as an external hard drive dedicated exclusively to the game... Until I have these, I can’t risk making progress on the game again... 

But... I’m not giving up!

Just because I’m not coding the game (for now) doesn’t mean I’m not working on it.

Right now, I’m redoing some of the illustrations for the game and refining the storyboard.

By the way, I’ve redone the main illustration for the game. What do you think? :D

I’m also focusing on animation! 

(And by the way, if you’ve played Yann and completed the objective... you probably got to see a certain animation... :]). 

... 

.. 

.

Speaking of animation, I’m excited to announce that I’m working on... 

The animation of the game’s PROLOGUE! You heard that right! 

I’m currently animating what happens in the prologue of the game!

I’ve always dreamed of making episode-style animations for the story! I can’t wait to show you the final result! In the meantime, here’s a little preview:

So there you have it... I hope you enjoyed these little updates and that you’re as excited as I am to see what’s next for the game. In any case, I still take great pleasure in watching this project grow and seeing you all join me on this adventure.

Thank you to everyone who, like me, believes in this project and supports me. I won’t give up!

See you soon!

MelaEliera, creator of Mysteries of the Twos.