Hello pones! 

I said last post, liiiike a year ago, that there was "a personal issue" I was gonna tell everybody about after it was handled, which stopped development of the game.

Yeah we almost went homeless we fixed it it's cool. Anyway.

There's actually another reason why developing this game is so slow:

RPG Maker MV's scripts are a labyrinth!

You see, the difference between a bad RPG Maker game and a good one is effort. In particular, the best RPG Maker games are full of custom scripts. As in you can reprogram the entire game. RPG Maker is an HTML5 engine that uses Javascript - the PIXI library, specifically - and in order to make custom scripts you gotta crawl through the scripts, and read the PIXI documentation, and figure out how RMMV's PIXI might be outdated or intentionally changed, to figure out how the stupid thing works to begin with.

AND IT'S A PAIN IN THE BUTT.

I can't even figure out how to script a letterbox.

A LETTERBOX. YOU JUST DRAW BLACK BARS ON THE SCREEN TO DO A LETTERBOX.

But ideally, I would make the game canvas crop to the desired letterbox, so that what's "under the black bars" doesn't even render. That would run a lot better, you see. (But not crop the WINDOW LAYER so that I can put dialogue in the lower matte!)

Why in the world is that SO HARD TO DO.

It was literally easier to add the ability to change the message window face mid-message than it is to do a letterbox.