Gene-Soldier has been updated for the final time.

I have good and bad news.

Good news: Episode 1 is finally complete and ready to play. I also optimized the AI to increase performance, hopefully eliminating most of the stuttering and performance lag.

Bad news: This will be the sole/final episode. I had plans to turn this project into a tri-episodic game, expanding further on the Cyan Gene's history and what lead to the war in the first place. All of that changed after May 2023 due to the Epic Games controversy that drove us away from using Unreal Engine commercially (and reconsider tremendously limiting our use of the tech non-commercially).

The Jam Scrapz Collection was suppose to be a collection of the 'best' game jam submissions and repurpose them for commercial profit to make a living in this already declining economy. Since I can no longer trust the company behind the "best engine on the planet", that obviously means JSC can no longer achieve the goal it solely existed for - honest profit, and it also means my motivation to complete this game has eventually waned. In addition to this, I have practically no audience for both this game, and the entire collection itself.

I learned from my mistake after wasting 5 years developing Qorena, a game that was also suppose to be commercial but due to misfortunate circumstances and a blunder on Steam during early access in 2020, the game was since doomed to a circumstance where making it free seemed to be the best course of action, so I did. Even then, I tried to be optimistic in hopes to turn the users who got the game free in early access into active player-traffic for the MP servers in the game. This ultimately proved futile. No matter what I did to improve the quality of the game, no one was playing; no one cared.

I do not want to make the same mistake with Gene-Soldier or the rest of the games in the Jam Scrapz Collection, so consider Episode 1 the final episode. It is just not worth the trouble anymore.

Thank you to those who stuck around for this long. If you like what I made and want to find fun games where my pure passion remains, check out Qore World instead.