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as an "unmentionable failure", and that the aftermath made him "feel like a fucking failure". While Yan continued to engage on message boards and began work on a new project, the Steam page for the mod was taken down. In August 2023, the source code for the abandoned mod was released by Yan.
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was set to tell its story from the perspective of a single character. The game was additionally planned to use more dialogue than the original games combined, though in the same amount of levels.
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