Hey everyone,

I’m sorry for the extended radio silence. As Nevan mentioned, I’ve been dealing with health issues and, as a solo dev, my personal challenges directly affect the timeline of the game’s updates. At this point, I’m starting to get better, but still have a little way to go on the road to recovery before I’m able to fully re-engage to Reign’s development.

From the development side of things, there are a few issues that need to be addressed before things can really move forward. Zombie, who has been a contributor for some time now, has left the project - I wish him well in his future endeavors. This does mean, though, that there are several things I need to reconfigure as far as dealing with server setup and how the client connects to the server. There are large sections of the code that I left partially complete that I now need to get back up to speed on in order to finish them.

Due to these challenges, and the personal recovery I still need to get through, I’ve decided to put Reign into maintenance mode. This means that I’m committing to getting the server into a stable state and keeping it online, but will have to postpone feature development for the time being. But this isn’t the end, you should know I don't know the meaning of give up after 10+ yrs! :)

Reign, in its current iteration, has always been intended to be a “vertical slice” - a preview of all the different features that I envision for the final product. While it doesn’t currently have everything I want just yet, I’ve learned many valuable lessons and have validated many of the ideas I have. The plan now is to take a quick breather to plan out the features I have not yet gotten to work on, and map out what a path to the final product will look like - a path that I don’t intend to walk alone.

For now, be assured that your support is greatly appreciated, and I’m working hard to make sure all purchases made are preserved and acknowledged as I work on restructuring Reign and the in-game purchase model. It is because of all of you that I’ve made it this far, and have the ability to regroup and push forward into the future.

Server should be available again within a week or so
Thank you again for all your support
More coming soon
Tai