Due to the current situration with Payment service Providers, Incresing complexity and a budget of 25 dollars, i am forced to halt Zen Mazuki in development until the situration has been resorted.

Zen Mazuki is a very complex game to make and it's very time consuming to develop.
93% of everything in Zen Mazuki has been custom made, this includes
The Bestie AI system, 3D models, Animations, Interactions, Operating system"UwU OS", Characters, Ect ect.

The game had no budget to begin with but when i initially started, you could free publish these games, but since then things has changed and it is currently almost impossible to raise funds, The patreon has 0 paying members and all my other sources of income has also been drained.

I have to unforthanly prioritize my income first as this allows me to work on the game in the first place.

I do really want to keep going but as things are looking right now, proceeding with development the way i want is pretty much impossible.

Here's a list of what i have created myself:

4 Custom Characters:
Mazuki,
Revy,
Amy,
Mazuki's sister "UwU Mazuki".

12 Fully Interactable Items with 32 Custom Animations.

A Operating System containing 5 Apps
UwU Chat"Intvitable Besties"
Kawaii Web"WebBrowser" With browsable in game websites
Waifu Tracker" A CCTV system" that works everywhere
HousePainter" A Painter for all walls
Minigames Containing "UwU Jitsu" With 20 Custom Animations.

A Main menu with Customizable Keybindings and various graphics settings 
Ect ect.
The list is very long.

The current development time has 3 months, working aprox 16 hours per day on the game completly unfunded and this for sure has taken a toll on both me and my finances.

It is again, a Sims like game made by one single developer completly unfunded and whilst i would be able to finish the game with funding, without funding it's simply just completly unrealistic as i do need money to pay bills, buy food, update my pc when parts break ect ect.



The game from the get-go has been targeting lower end gaming pc's and therefore there is a lot of tradeoffs that has to be made also sticking to itch's 1 gb file size limit is starting to become very very difficult but i have managed to find creative ways around it that diddn't compromise on the feel of the game.

Another issue i've been having again related to funds are voice actors.

Nothing in Zen Mazuki has been made or generated with AI, and i want real voice actors for each character but these are very very expensive, far out of my price range so that's essentially why non of the characters speak or say anything, because again, I have stuck to a 93% purity Aspect where 93% of the game needs to be custom made by myself or contain one of a kind assets.

Therefore, it's currently halted.

If the game manages to raise some funds in it's current state, i'll resume development, otherwise it'll be halted until i have time to spare.

Hopefully you'll understand