#rewind talk

Hi! Although it's been a long time, and admittedly the project has been put on the backburner, Rewind has still been on our minds.

As of right now, we still intend to finish. In the unlikely event that we decide to cancel, we'll probably share the incomplete demo and all our assets to the public. It's been a multi-year endeavor, and it'd be a shame to let it go to waste. Right now the game has:

60+ rooms (maps/areas/levels) finished and implemented in the demo

70+ songs in the soundtrack (not including variants. This includes the entire soundtrack, not the demo-only music)

A ton of other sprites, charts, animations, and concepts that are and aren't included in the demo

As it is, the demo has been mostly complete for a while… we mostly need to draw a few more rooms, finish some character sprites, and implement various planned events.

The project as a whole is more difficult to estimate. A bulk of the work will already have been presented in the demo, through character and environmental sprites. There's a lot more left to do, though we have also worked ahead, writing events and creating assets for things that will not appear in the demo. The demo takes place over a month, and the full game takes place over eleven, but the full game isn't 11 times the work of the demo!

Once we're able to allocate more time to Rewind again, we're also likely not to post public previews as much, so that we can focus on working on the game. There's a lot we haven't shown yet as well. We'd really like to present everything in their intended context, if possible.

Locket: We are essentially on hiatus at the moment, unfortunately 😔 Rest assured we've not forgotten the project, but we've also been quite busy with life and other things.

Hi! We are not dead! Just busy and in development hell. ✨

We've been quiet on social media in favor of focusing on our personal lives and Rewind's development. When we return to activity you will see a few more previews and responses from us. (And the last two music polls.) Thank you to everyone that sent us asks, messages or tagged us. Even if we haven't responded yet, we both notice and greatly appreciate it. And thank you everyone for your patience!

Shroomy: After the initial permission Rewind doesn't really have anything to do with Segawa other than being a fangame for their game.

Development is still underway. Pixel art is the bulk of our workflow. I have also been working on fixing bugs, adding events, implementing assets, non-pixel art content, and doing general backwork. Shroomy is continuing to work on concept art, map layouts, and character design. Bug fixes specifically have been going well thanks to the efforts of Fleur, Pine, and our newest beta tester, Needle!

In terms of demo release, we are mainly finishing more overworld maps and NPC sprites. Shroomy has recently started to help me with this, mainly through overworld sprites of their NPC designs. (Thank you Shroomy. ❤️) On top of this, we have been taking adequate breaks to avoid burnout and preserve the quality of our work.

Pixel art is the main limiting factor to our progress speed. Because pixel art is also what makes most of our previews, we have slowed down in posting those. Rest assured, a lot of the completed content has yet to be revealed, as we feel it would be better experienced during gameplay.

Thank you for your patience. We hope to deliver Rewind to you in good time!

Ow whatever the answer is, I'm eager to play this game, and excited to wait. I even turned on the notification. Good luckk, I know you all can do this. I hope it goes wellll

-Confrontation, Darcover Town BGM Fans

-Also big fans of Tabasa and Dogma >.<

Locket: Hello! Yes, Rewind is a fangame.

Shroomy: It explores Russell's daily life prior to the experiment!