You may notice that it's now the middle of January 2025, and Petal Crash for Neo Geo isn't out yet. In fact, things have been pretty quiet since CEO last year. What gives, you may ask?

Well, much like Ashley and the rest of the team working on Petal Crash 2 had life issues late in 2024 that kept them from working on that, we likewise had our own issues to sort out that kept us from making progress like we wanted. (Coincidentally, a big, expensive move was also involved in our case as well.) While the CEO build of Petal Crash for Neo Geo was nearly final in terms of gameplay—the only things missing in that regard are some small story mode sequences, and the credits—the music driver was still incomplete, and only a couple of music tracks were even in a finalized state by that point.

Unfortunately, given all that has been going on the past few months, we haven't been able to finish up all of the remaining music-related things that were absent in that build. Rather than try to crunch and finish them when the three of us have already been having a rough enough time, it's simply a much better idea to stand back, catch our breaths, let our lives sort themselves out, and set aside the project until we're all in stable situations again. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later, because goodness knows I really want to see Petal Crash for Neo Geo out in the wild.

That's all for now, and with any luck we'll have some better news to share over the next few months. -KS