Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has an early Christmas gift for fans eagerly awaiting his next game: a development update blog detailing just what's going on with Haunted Chocolatier. In short, it hasn't been abandoned and a ton of work has already been done, but a lot more work needs to be done before it's ready for release.
"Even though Haunted Chocolatier has only been revealed publicly to a tiny degree," Barone explains in the blog post, "in my own private world it’s a special place, and I’m very attached to the characters, themes, and ideas. Also, I’ve already done a ton of work on the game. Before I took this break for Stardew 1.6, I had created a 'vertical slice' of Haunted Chocolatier, essentially a skeleton of the game with most (not all) of its bones in place."
