I've learned the importance of having a backup hard drive the hard way. My current drive which contains almost everything, this project included, just packed up. The drive has been giving me issues for the past month but because of my exams I didn't find the time to back up anything. It came to a point where the drive was not being read by the PC. According to an IT guy I know, he determined it to be a hardware issue, not a software one. He believes it to be a problem with the USB controller of the drive. Fixing it may be possible, but it will definitely be expensive, and I simply don't have the finances to fix it at the moment. And even then, recovering any of the files on drive is not guaranteed. So I potentially risk losing most if not all of the data on my hard drive.

Regarding this project, it's not that much of a major setback as I was still gathering resources and scripts, and making custom sprites. I was still in the early stages of development or should I say restarting the project from scratch. Regaining all of the resources will prove challenging as some of the sites where I got them are no longer active, so I may have to improvise. Updates were already slow and now this happens. This project will be on hiatus for the time being.