1001days

TW:  mentions of suicide, mental illness, self-harm. Please don’t read this if any of these things trigger you.

Asif got in contact with me and wanted me to share this message/letter with everybody. Please read it and be kind of them. Here is a link to the letter if the images don’t load. 

Here is also a link to their twitter. 

Also, Saffr did had Alibaba’s chapter 7 route part 1 up on their store front from Etsy, but that was taken down. :( If anybody knows how to get one please let me know! I thought I bought it but seems like I just thought I did. Or even just a video of it I’ll be happy. If not, that’s also alright! 

I’m not dead! But... 

Sadly, there isn’t much to anything at all to update on. Last thing I’ve heard about the game/story was around November 11, 2020. When Saff (Asif) uploaded some background art from the game on their twitter. They said under the pot in reply to someone that they still need to upload/work on part 2 of  Alibaba's route, and that they needed to make sure that they have the story written out and they weren’t imaging writing it out. 

I’m unsure when part 2 will come out, or if it will ever.  Saying all of this, we should all remember that Covid is still very much a thing, and that Saff is in school. Plus the health issues Saff has shared with us. Remember to please be kind to them. 

I’m sure many of you are sad that there isn’t any real update on the characters we fell in love with, I know myself I’m sad over it. If there never is another update we still have our memories we created, the story we were able to have so far. I know I will cherish these memories, and I hope you all can too. 

I hope they’re taking the time off to relax and heal, too. Their mental health is important. 

Edit: Also, we don’t truly know what happened to Asif so I think we shouldn’t be making assumptions. 

I played the game when it first came out, and I love the characters and the story that we got to see so far. I do hope when they do feel better and come back that they see people care and love not only them but the game they created. I mainly wanted to save the url not only for whenever Asif came back and wanted to keep the name 1001days. But also cause I didn’t want the name to fall into the wrong hands I guess.

Well, long story I guess. 

From what I gathered it all started on the 25th of May, 2020. Asif randomly deleted/deactivated everything. The 1001daysgame blog, the itch.io page, Patreon, and their person tumblr and twitter account. Nobody knows why it happened as they said nothing before everything was just gone. 

Sometime around the 25th-26th of May Asif reactivated the itch.io page, the Patreon, and their twitter account. But not the tumblr blogs. They said nothing about why they deleted and came back. The same day they posted on their twitter about if anybody had a template for planning a game. And that they didn’t know what to do as their thoughts were all over the place. Which alines with what they said in Chapter 6 devlog. They said the game was going on an indefinite hiatus because their passion for the game diminished greatly. Indefinite hiatus means something pretty much isn’t going to ever come back. Although, it seemed like Asif still wanted to work and maybe finish the game. That is unknown though. 

The same day (The 26th of May) Asif deleted the post about a template on game planning and posted two new tweets. Saying they were going to deactivate the Patreon and their twitter account again the next morning and wanted to tell everybody before doing so. They wanted to do that and not disappear like they wanted to. As we saw when they first deleted/deactivated everything. The tweets can be viewed here from the Wayback Machine.