All I've done this winter break is play the game and find game breaking bugs, which I then fix, and then more bugs appear, making any possible release basically impossible. That's not the only thing breaking, it's also my resolve
Every time I feel like this game works consistently, something breaks, something softlocks the game. I swear it just doesn't want to be released. This is very frustrating because, well, the game's feature set is done. I'm done tuning the game. I just need it to work exactly once, and it can't. Which is frustrating, because it's "worked" once before. I was able to load the game's final scene by reaching the end sometime last year. I don't understand where all these bugs are coming from or why, after years of something working fine, it suddenly and unexpectedly screeches to a fucking halt.
it is especially frustrating because winter break was really the only time I could get some momentum to work on it, but "work" on it means playtesting and fixing endless bugs. this isn't fun and it hasn't been for a long time. this game is not going to be good on release. Why don't I just cut a build and it'll exist as a buggy unfinished mess so I can walk away from it?