Hello there. Never wrote one of these, but I guess right now is the best time.

It's officially been almost 3 years since I initially started work and announced Shibuya Sukeban. Some of you are most likely asking this question:

"What's happening on it? Where is it? When's it coming out? Are ya even working on it?"

And my answer to each of them is:

>It's slowly coming along

>On my computer

>Tomorrow

>Kindof

I'm not gonna beat around the bush and use buzzwords about how progress is coming along and say things like, "I've been busy with other things." Because to tell you the truth, that's only half true. After 3 years I've recently been fired from my job which does give me more time to work on Shibuya, but if I'm gonna be honest, it's mainly just because I'm a very lazy person. Hell, it took me only until now to write a devlog on here to tell you what's happening. Mainly due to the fact that I am much more active on my Twitter, Steam, and Discord, which you can very easily contact me there at all, and just shoot me a question, I really don't mind.  

So what has happened with Shibuya?

Many things. Mostly script rewrites. 

As most of you could tell, the Workshop campaign release of Shibuya was much more lighthearted and silly in tone, something akin to really any of my earlier stuff or just any regular old campaigns on the workshop. Well, pretty quickly in development, I changed that. To be something much more dark and gritty in tone, tackling subjects I'm not all too familiar with personally. Which looking back on it, I thought would just be downright offensive if I even tried to shove them in, especially with how much of a whiplash it would be to most people only familiar with the WS campaign. This mainly happened because I was going through what I would call a "Depressive Crisis." Where I thought mainly things of myself, it was a very bad time, and with this bad time came many bad decisions that I made to the script, that people I was getting help from also thought the same thing, especially now whenever we look back on it, mainly to poke fun at it saying how glad we are that the current script isn't like that anymore. Most of you probably could tell that certain videos and trailers are gone, this is because those are insanely out of date and don't represent what Shibuya is now. What it is now is something that I am much more proud of, maybe with a little bit of tweaking, but that is what happens when you rewrite an entire script about 5 times. Don't feel bad for me mentioning the fact I called it a "Depressive Crisis", I'm fine now and it was just some dumb shit I gaslighted myself into thinking, among other things, but that's what I will call it. 

Another thing that Shibuya went through, though less so than anything, was mainly mainly style changes and level design redos. I am not an incredible programmer, so I mainly get help from others who do. Endless thanks to them, because if they weren't there then this project wouldn't really exist. But what I mainly do is decide how the style should be and how the levels should flow, and I've redone the first level what feels like 10 times over the course of the 3 years since I initially made it. This was to a lesser extent for importance, but it is something that was there. 

So the tl;dr:

I am lazy, and dumb, and rewrote the script 5 times. 

This may or may not be the only devlog on this site, because again I'm more active on my other social medias, but do look out for more updates if you are interested. Many thanks to everyone here showing interest in this project and my work in general, I couldn't be anymore grateful for the support I receive working on this. Expect more in the future. How far off this future is going to be I cannot confirm, but one thing is for certain:

Shibuya only dies when I die. 

Thank you very much for reading! And thanks again for the support.