An update on the situation of things

I'm writing this in regards to a comment I made at the end of the last trailer I published for Super Mario: Endless Earth. At the end of the trailer, I declared that the hack would be released before Super Mario Odyssey, which is launching only one month from now.

For starters, I never personally expected that I would have the game out at that point in time. By publishing that as a promise, I was setting a challenge upon myself to have the game out by that date. There's more to why I wanted it out before Odyssey anyway, and that is that my mind has been a clutter for a long, long time now.

No matter what's going on in my life, I can never really be relaxed. All that my mind is set on, all the time, is that I need to finish the things that I started. Chief among those things being Endless Earth, and also the Luigi 'expansion' I teased a while back, the Clone Tag Team remakes (which still stand at about 50% done), etc. You get the idea. My hacking projects are at the forefront of my anxiety. Yet, when I bring myself to work on them I can't pay attention and turn away after about an hour or so. When Newer DS launches, Newer U will be taking charge of development with the Newer Team, so I'm going to be involved with that too. And the thing is, I work a 40-hour week, before the commute, I need to sleep 8 hours a day. My free time evaporates and I'd really rather be enjoying myself than working on hacks, and that's a bummer.

It's driving me mad. I promised myself that I would get Endless Earth out so I could put my mind at ease for a while, whilst I enjoy Odyssey, but at the pace I'm going it's just not going to happen.

Let me be clear, Super Mario: Endless Earth is so very, very close to completion. The open world is done It alone is larger than ANY of my previous hacks. Two of eight fortresses are complete. The third has been in real progress for about a week now. These fortresses I aim to be about three times the length of an average fortress level, with each fortress having multiple routes that routinely re-connect so you can 'change' your route and continue.

The fortresses, their corresponding bosses, and the ending cutscene is all that needs to be done for me to call it complete.

I'm going to keep trying to get Super Mario: Endless Earth out in 2017. Maybe, just maybe if some miracle happens you'll all be playing it in a month. I doubt that.

However, I will be delaying Super Luigi: Endless Earth, which was meant to be released simultaneously. Think of this hack as a 'DLC' for the game, like New Super Luigi U. The open world remains the same, maybe slightly remixed with different Power Star placements, but the graphics and soundtrack are new, and the game has its own set of fortresses placed at different points in the map. If I may tease the plot a little:



So that's what's going on. I'm trying to give the hack attention when I can.