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Hi!

As some of you know already, I have left the Brawl staff a few months ago. I didn't post a resignation thread since I didn't want the community to abandon all hope about the future of War 2.0. That said, as time went by, more and more people had heard about it, and so I thought I might as well make it official.


I joined Brawl as a developer on October 6th, 2015. I was assigned to work on HG: renew the game, fix the bugs, attract old MC-PVP players. I was supposed to finish by Christmas 2015, but spent a lot more time on it. To this day this is probably still my biggest regret on Brawl; as we all know, that didn't work out at all. No matter how many bugs I had fixed, no matter how many game aspects I had given a fresh look, the player counts wouldn't go up, only down. It's always hard for me to see less than 10 players on HG and to see people complain about it's unpopularity. In any case, I had to move on eventually, and was assigned to work on War 2.0, which I did for over a year. In my opinion, the game was ready for beta a good 5 months ago. The content of the game was mostly there, and for some reason things would just not move forward. I didn't have much to do during this time, and this is partly why I left. However, from what I understand, entering Beta now that I left is not possible (at least right now), since there are no available developers to look over the game: Mario and Signatured are both busy with their own projects.

The two things I'll remember the most from my time at Brawl are without any doubt the many HG events I organized and planned, and the War 2.0 testing sessions. I had a ton of fun participating in these two kind of events and certainly learnt a lot from running them. The event that marked me the most is the 2015 Halloween HG Tournament: one week and a half after I join, I'm being told that there will be a massive event in 2 weeks that I need to prepare and code for. Nice, thanks @Lord_Roke. The day before the event, a new bug had appeared: sometimes, the game would freeze when the invincibility ended, and the bug was incurable. I had 0 control over it - it would manifest itself in some games, whenever it felt like so. I was mortified the morning of the event: what if it occurred during the tournament, with over 100 people on? I spent the morning trying to debug it with NomNuggetNom, who was surprisingly chill. Nothing worked, the only thing I could do was cross my fingers. Strike of luck, the tournament went great (except for a little lag), and the bug somehow disappeared on its own 1-2 months later.

The main reason why I resigned was lack of motivation. I had simply lost all my will to continue, and getting to work was extremely hard. On top of that I didn't have a ton of free time because of school, so I decided around in March that it'd be better if I let someone else take my place. I'd like to thank everyone I had the chance to meet and work with, it was a great pleasure.

@NomNuggetNom @Lord_Roke @chickenputty @Viva @MattM1PVP @DarkTitan_ @BlueGuyARed @RockTomb @RyGuy @SoCool21 @Algelier @Snail_5_
(yes I only had friends in the staff I'm a loner)

Now over the years I've been secretly collecting dank memes from the staff slack and the time has come to release them:

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I'm confident that the Brawl staff will release War 2.0 one day, so don't lose hope. On my side, I'll soon start taking official programming classes (even I though I already know this kek) to get a piece of paper that will allow me to proceed in my career... in a lot of time. Anyways, I might stick around and help if needed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cya all!