Update! Announcing FreedomRPG (working title) and a plea for help.

Original Post

Since my original announcement went rather unnoticed, I decided to get more of the game implemented and give the announcement thing another try. I was gonna wait a month, but my situation is deteriorating and I figured I'd give it another go. But first, on to the Game Update!

Since my initial post I've implemented plants and their growth cycle, which necessitated a Day/Night cycle, although there's no lighting system yet.

Grown Plants

Ofcourse to grow plants you have to plant them first.

Planting Seeds

And ofcourse that necessitates plowing the terrain so it's suitable for planting.

[Plowing] (http://i.imgur.com/LNgFW.png)

Also digging has been about 50% implemented, enough to show it off and some of it's associated functionality, like "autotiles". Holes will lead to the Map below, allowing tossed items, fluids or other things to pass between the Maps vertically.

Dug Hole with Autotile Borders

These ofcourse are built upon the ability to equip Tools to perform these tasks, which means I've also implemented equipping/unequipping and some debug equipment and tool items to test it out.

Equipment

So as you can see I've gotten quite a bit done, and that's only the things I can actually show off. There's been quite a bit of engine work done as well that isn't readily demonstrable. Things are moving along nicely as far as the game is concerned.

Also you may notice that I stopped using the Minish Hat Link graphics for the player and am now using the character from Harvest Moon. Like I mentioned in my original post this is because I absolutely suck at graphics and needed placeholders for the time being. I switched to Harvest Moon because it has animations for some of the basic tool uses I wanted to implement. I will definitely be replacing these graphics with something original before the game ever sees an official release.

And now on to the begging part...

So if you read the Original Post, you'll see that I mention that I and my mother's financial situation is pretty bad, which culminated in me working on the game again for the past 3 months. As I said before I had hoped to wait a month, if not longer, before posting again as I wished to get the game farther along. However events have occurred that required more immediate action. Between my original post and this one a lien has been placed against our house, and we are now debating selling our only vehicle to cover the expense of filling for bankruptcy. While we have both been trying to make money any legitimate way we can, it hasn't been enough, and the situation is getting worse.

So once again I come before the Great and Powerful Hivemind and ask for assistance. If you like what you've seen of my game and wish to see it continued, or if you'd just like to help out a couple people in a bad situation, then please help by donating to keep my game alive!

Paypal info: dbogle94@gmail.com

I will try to stay on to answer any questions you may have, but I've been up all night coding so I don't know how long I will last.

EDIT: I'm gonna crash, but feel free to continue asking questions and I'll reply as soon as I wake up.

EDIT 2: All donators will receive a free copy of the game, as well as all future updates for free.

EDIT 3: Well, gonna get back to coding now. Will do another update post when I've got more to show of the game. Thanks to those that commented/donated! :)