It's been a while, like a long while, and honestly i've just been dealing with burnout because after 0.2.1 I was in like a zone working on Button Clicker everyday.

And after releasing 0.5.1 I just didnt feel any motivation to keep going. So I took like a really long break, a long one. When I said in the 0.5.0 devlog that I would be taking a 5 day break I kind of lied. I actually took like a 2 month break then I finally decided to pick it back up since I felt some motivation again.

Safe to say that was short lived, I just worked on Button Clicker for 2 days then lost the motivation again. In that time I did make some progress though which is like implementing 97% of auto clicker detection. After that I took another 2 month break because I just had no motivation again probably because of how much I burnt myself out when making 0.5.0 and 0.5.1. Then these past couple days I have actually picked it back up again and I am now working on debug tools because i'll be honest in 0.2.0 when I said I added a debug menu I just added a button with a troll popup. But now I am working on some because it just makes development so much easier.

That being said 0.7.0 which will be the next update probably wont be coming out for a little while as i've been really busy. It wasnt just motivation that kept me from working on it, while that was a big factor, with school and exams I really just didnt have time to work on Button Clicker. Recently I finished my finals and now its winter break so thats why I decided to pick it back up plus because I just got a burst of motivation for some reason.

It also wont be coming out for a little while as i'm also busy again just making debug tools for the game and as easy as all of this might seem like why did it take you 4 months just to make some dumb main menu. The thing is with programming things always seem so simple on the surface but underneath I actually had to spend 6-8 hours a day working on the game just to get a fraction of work done that day. Also again such simple things have such complex underlying systems that need to be made. But back to my main point is I wont be working on adding more shop items and actual gameplay stuff till im done with debug tools so I just wanted to make that clear.

Also another factor was that I was just working on other projects. Shortly after 0.5.1 I started making Garry's Mod addons and after a while of that I began making some dumb Roblox games then experimenting with making games in Godot. Of course at the end of the day this isnt my dream. A bit of context I had began just learning Java through tutorials and stuff on YT and eventually I thought I had become skilled enough to make my first project without watching a tutorial and I decided on a clicker game. I just thought of the name Button Clicker so it stuck. The first build was extremely bare bones but I kept building it up. Eventually I reached the afterlife part and I just didnt have any motivation again so I just didnt work on it, for a whole year. A year later I picked up the game again and started working on it, halfway through I just realized this game sucks. I dont have a whole lot of screenshots but the UI looked really ugly and it was just a bad game. So I basically scrapped everything and I mean it, then I started from scratch making a new Button Clicker until 0.5.1 here. You can also find older versions of the new Button Clicker on my YT and you can see that even those looked really bad in my opinion. But eventually we got here and I am really proud since this new Button Clicker is genuine leaps better than the old one. Plus i'm almost back to where I left the old one off and I have so many more things in this game than the old one. For context one code file in this game which handles all the inputs is about 1500 lines long, while the old Button Clicker in total was 1000 lines long for the whole game. Maybe that gives you some insight into how much bigger this game is. But back to my main point at the end of the day this was really not supposed to get this big and after I finish Button Clicker i'm going to pursue game development in Godot fully. But thats the dream at least.

I can give you a list of whats coming in the next update but what would be the fun in that. So maybe thats enough rambling. Anyways i'll release 0.7.0 when its ready. I can tell u what it will exclude though, the afterlife system and the wiki. All I can say. So i'll continue on my way and as always,

Bye!