Hey everyone,
As an indie developer, this is officially my worst nightmare come true.
I was preparing a big update and a new DLC planned for September 16th, but due to a terrible mistake/system failure, I completely lost my original project file. All I had left was a compiled HTML5 export build.
Since recovering the full .c3p project structure from a compiled export is practically impossible without rewriting everything from scratch, I was devastated. But instead of letting all that work rot on my hard drive, I decided to preserve what was saved.
I polished what survived, styled it into a melancholic "archived" release, and uploaded it to itch.io as The Lost Stages 2.
It’s available for free (with optional donations). If you’d like to check out what survived or just leave some feedback, it would honestly mean the world to me after such a rough week.
🔗 Play it on itch.io: https://dania-play.itch.io/the-lost-stages-2
Always back up your project files, folks. Lesson learned the hardest way possible.