So let's get the bad news out of the way: there will be no online mode in Akuto: Mad World. Yes, we said we would try to implement it and we did try. Our first attempt didn't meet our standards, and our second attempt for online mode is currently in mid-development but most likely won't be finished. So what happened?

Well at the end of 2018, we started going through how much we have already spent on the game and how much we are expecting to make in sales. By our calculations, it will be very unlikely that we will ever make a profit from this game. This is because the development budget for the game had to be doubled halfway in development.

We initially planned to release the game in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018, but due to circumstances out of our control, we had to push back the release date. Because of that, we decided to scrap a prototype we were working on at that time and use the budget of that prototype for Akuto's development throughout 2018.

We are now increasingly close to running out of money for this project, and we will definitely not be able to complete the development of online mode for Akuto with our remaining budget. Now, instead of releasing a half-working online mode, we are going to use the remaining of the budget to complete the remaining features of the game (leaderboards, achievements, trading cards, etc.) and polish the game.

We apologize to anyone who was looking forward to the online mode. Even though we initially did not plan for online mode, we did want it in the game as we continued to develop the game.

We know this is not much, but the one good news from all of this is that the game will be out much sooner than we planned.

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