Why the full-width alphanumeric?

Anyways, didn't he announce it on Twitter or another site such as that?

Ouch, guess I've switched into Japanese keyboard without noticing. Sorry.

No, the announcement was in the thread, as far as I remember Wataru's current Twitter has decidedly nothing to do with 2kki, aside from that one he tweeted "I am never coming back" and later deleted it. I forgot what the handle was, and it's not easy to Google either, so I can't link it right now, unfortunately. All I remember is that was a string of 6 seemingly random letters and digits.

that's sad, the places they made (and other developers too but specialy wataru) inspired me SO MUCH, really I can't say how much they inspired me and all, I hope Wataru comes back...

Here's a better question: SHOULD we know why they're leaving? Their history throughout this whole endeavor seems to suggest that they're going through a lot of stuff right now and would like to put 2kki behind them. And honestly, if that's the case and they're still stressed out, I would honestly rather them not post any new updates.

Hey Cookie Yomenye. If you ever remember Wataru's current twitter account, is there a chance you could post it here?

I guess we should yeah. If it was only because stuff going on in their life unrelated to 2kki then no. But if they really said something along the lines of "I'm never coming back", it migh not be the case, but it probably have to do with something in the 2kki community that's bothering them, like a disagreement with others 2kki contributors. And if that's the case yeah we may be interested in knowing that.

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Well then, since you asked so nicely I actually went back and searched for it. There it is: https://twitter.com/c6CEGAc6/ One of the recent pictures even shows an Okamoto Taro figurine which served as a reference for some of Wataru's art.

I have to warn you though, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, TRY TO MESSAGE HIM ABOUT ANYTHING RELATED TO YUME 2KKI. Beside the fact that there's probably enough people doing that as we speak, Wataru's spirits seem to be in an abysmal condition, some of his new tweets are outright suicidal. So please, don't do anything inconsiderate, okay?

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Wataru tweeted "I'm never coming back" when people in the thread were criticizing Spelude's low-quality contributions coupled with an uncomfortable amount of self-advertising on social media. Some people have regarded that as harassment, Wataru being one of them.

As for his reasons for leaving, I'm 95% sure it comes down to mental health issues. The pressure of sudden fame probably didn't help either. There is a more detailed account in some other thread on this board, but the details are mostly insignificant.

I'm just going to throw this out here.

Wataru's story is why I stress so hard to everyone to take breaks every once in a while. As much as people may respect him for it, the Wataru sector is roughly half the size of the entirety of .flow, with twice the details, produced in roughly half the time; and I'm sorry, but that kind of intense production simply is NOT healthy, especially considering Wataru likely either has school or a job to keep up with.

The intro to the game states that, for most developers, 2kki is just a hobby; and to be quite frank I don't want it to become anything more for any of them. Because honestly, lolrust was already pushing it making .flow as big and detailed as it ended up being in just under five years; Wataru went WAY past the line of what I would consider healthy.

I'm helping in the development of a game, and now i was able understand some things that, i think,  are relationed with yume2kki's development.

Well, we create sprites, tiles, change many things in our game pratically Everyday, sometimes we build a very good idea, do assets, install them in the game, and after seeing that nothing there be further improved, we discuss internally and almost always just scrap THE ENTIRE THING to make it better. So we're aware that something it is good to a better development. (even knowing that it can cost us some energy)

I think that with yume2kki was more or less the same, maybe Spelude had the potential to make wonderfull maps and music to the game, we can see the vase map for example, that Anon helped to improve, and i think that map works nicely in the game.
The point is that maybe interference of people that is non-related with the project can just make the things worse, even critising or rooting for the development, because, if a developer cares too much for what the fans are expecting, and make something that, to  their own eyes or the fans, is not soo good compared with the rest of the game, it can really overstress them at the point that they can think that's best to abandon the project instead of wasting more energy trying to improve. i not think that our opinions can have influency in the development of the game, Since it continue being something internal here, but harass developers in social media trying to communicate, demanding or letting them know that we're expecting can only disrupt the development. Wataru's work is wonderful, his maps touched some of my most forgotten memories, (and i'm sure that it happened in the same way with many people) but demanding that everything in the game must be like that is wrong. Not criticizing here anyone specific other than myself. I was one of the guys that critised Spelude's work badly, even knopwing that is just a opinion here, now I know that it can be wrong.​​​​ if there's something good or bad in the game, is up to the developers to decide.