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I’ve been checking out your site and following your progress fr`om time to time. I (and probably many others) are in awe of your enormous undertaking and perseverance. Best of luck in the final final stretch and I look forward to toasting your success and treating you to dinner when its all over.

Just keep up the hard work. It will all be worth it while I am playing the game!

Let’s do the time warp again.

No worries---The wait has been long, but I know it will be worth it---don’t be so hard on yourself---this is supposed to be fun...are you having fun? You will when everyone wants to buy your game!!

Though it pains me greatly, I shall take comfort in knowing that when TFahM is finally delivered, it will be a product of the greatest quality, and it will certainly have been worth the wait.

No problem, Cliff! Hang in there.

As I said before - I’d rather wait for a good game.

Take your time, get it right. I have faith that you will get it done, no matter how long it takes.

And the offer goes back out - if you want a volunteer fan to help for no monetary reward, this True Believer stands ready. God Bless.

Well, we’re pretty anxious to see it ourselves. Good luck, I have no doubt it will be worth the wait!

Take Your Time.

Dear Cliff: looking forward to seeing the, I’m almost certain, brilliant final product. Keep smiling............

Keep going, Cliff; we believe in you!

To CLiFF the creator most cool,
While laboring on your new puzzling jewel
We bid you remember
Whether Nov- or Dec-ember
We believe in the “bon mot”-ley Fool

A month or so isn’t that much longer at all. Keep up your sprits. The end of the words is nigh! Good luck with the final bits!

P.S. Would prefer not to think up a rhyme for January. :-)

Cliff, I am one of many who will gladly wait as long as it takes! Do it right the first time--we’re with you.

No problem! Take your time, I’m sure it’ll be worth it.

Cliff, first things first, your games kick ass. second take your time to make sure this is even better then any of them. Thanks for being honest. good luck and a who hoo to you.

I wait with bated breath. I’ll wait until you’ve taken the time to get it right! Best of luck to you.

Like most Red Sox fans, I believe.

As a TRUE True Believer, I am willing to wait while you make it as good as I just know it’s going to be. The only thing you could do that would make me mad would be to jump off a tall building without first finishing the game. For that I would come and get you big time, wherever you might have wound up as a result of your ill-timed leap into space.

Suffer on, brilliant and creative one - we are drooling in anticipation.

Chin up old chum. We’re still behind ya.

Don’t sweat it. As a developer, I understand the whole deadline-creep, and as a huge Fool fan, I am more than content to wait until Fool and his Money meets your seal of approval.

What’s another seven months compared to seventeen years? I can’t wait to play your new game. I’ve loved your games since 3 In Three came out. Thanks for the intelligent fun you create!

Working in the video game industry I can say that delays happen all the time. What makes your delay of game livable is that most game companies employ hundreds to make their high tech video entertainment and then push back games for up to a year at a time with no explanation at all. Try dealing with irate customers that pre-ordered HALO 2 for their xbox to find out it was pushed back all the way to next christmas with no reason.

I’m sure whatever you turn out will be a wonderful game and worthy of the FOOL series heritage. And it gives me time to finish the rest of the BEST OF CLIFF cd that I am enjoying. Thanks for the updates and the dedication to your fans. I will miss the rivulets in the meantime though!

Another delay, sigh.... Disappointed, you bet your anagrams I am, but I think you’d be insulted if I weren’t. I am of the school of “send us it when it’s finished and not before”. I’ve played enough half-designed, poorly written, multi-patched games in my time, thank you, and for a game such as this, I can wait longer.

When I first saw the advertisements for Fool’s Errand so many years ago, it filled me with great happiness that some one was making a puzzle game adventure. And it was even more so after playing it. I don’t want to describe to you the great number of years I held on to my floppy version of Puzzle Gallery praying that one day you might release an expansion to it. (BTW: I still own it!) So this is such sweet misery knowing that the wait must go on, but when it’s over....va-va-voom!

Thanks for your li’l note, automatically generated though it may be. I’m still a believer, so just do what you must to get this game out in the condition all your believers have come to expect. Thanks for your continued efforts with both the game, and with keeping us appraised of your progress.

Here, there Is much WeepIng and waiLing and gnashing of teeth. The howLs of those Whose puzzle AddIcTion shall GO unfed are piteOus, but in the enD there is some soLace in their breasts, for they know that throUgh this delay even more devilish and demoniaCal enigmas shall be posed, more riddles will be unveiled, and more twisted sKeins shall be woven. We are not the last of those who care, and we look forward to All Hallow’s Eve.

I hope there will be no further delays. As you say the suspense is killing me.

I used to work in Customer Service for Origin during it’s hey day – Ultima 6, Ultima 7, Serpent Isle, Wing Commander…so I know all too well about moving release dates…and can sympathize with you. At least you don’t have producers yelling at you for finding more bugs 24 hours before the shipdate…

The Fools Errand was hands down the best game I’ve ever played, and I can’t wait for the sequel.

Please take as long as you need to complete this game, as we all want it to be the best you can possibly do. We’ve been waiting for many years for the sequel - a few more months won’t hurt. Besides, I’m sure there will be a one month drop in the country’s economy as all of us fools divert our entire attention to solving your puzzles, and to stop working, buying stuff, or eating anything but power bars (OK, maybe donuts, too). Thanks for your efforts.

Sorry to hear that the project is moving along slowly – I can’t wait to start on your new “witty tale of puzzling twists and turns.” I know how software development can be, though – I designed and programmed a few products for Broderbund Software a while back. (Can it really be 20 years ago?)

I am looking forward to it. I appreciate your high standards (that is it, isn’t it?) and hope the process proceeds smoothly.

Being a true Gemini, thus “the master of the unfinished project”, I have yet to finish ANY of the previous Fools games, so I would have nerve expecting you to rush this latest installment to press before it’s time. Take your time and do it right.

Noooooooo! Still, I can’t blame you - it’s a huge project and it’s best you retain the whole “it’ll be ready when it’s ready” concept that’s so lacking from the rest of the industry...

We are waiting patiently, with slavering mandibles.

I’m not concerned about the delay. Of course I would love to have the game now but perfection takes time. Take your time and do it right. We will be here when it is complete.

We have faith.

We believe.

Sorry to hear that I have to wait, but I know it will be worth it. Good luck!

I’m so very looking forward to this.

I’ve been charmed since I first came across Fool’s Errand when I moved to the US from Canada in the fall of 1990. It saved me from going insane.

Keep up the good work Cliff, we all know it is worth it.

Although I am sinking deeper into CJ game withdrawal, I do believe in your ability to create a game worth the wait. I’ll be patient and play some adventure games until the fall. (deep sigh)

I’m sure the game will be all the better for the delay.

I, and I’m sure many others, have been anticipating this luscious transport back in time. As a developer, I know the choice between rushing through a project to meet a deadline and pushing it out at the risk of angering the gods is tough. I applaud you for making the correct choice. Especially with your work, which i appreciate for it’s wit, sarcasm, and cleverness, quality and depth are king.

Looking forward to playing it -- once YOU think it is ready. Keep up the good work.

Have you considered outsourcing to India? I’ve heard it’s a great way to cut costs. Seriously, at the company where I work we’ve just had the date for the approval of the start of negotioning the scope of a project slip two months, and yet they still want our group to project the project end date. Seeing into the future is fundamentally hard. Good luck!

Re: your Fool with no Money. Well, now, that’s not quite true. You *do* have the checks of the true believers. That should keep you in macaroni & cheese until the game ships & bazillions of people buy it.

Take as long as you need to put out a good product. Don’t sweat it. I’m looking forward to the “ah-ha” and “aww-right” of TFaHM. Thanks for the update.

Ah, slipping again, eh? That’s OK. I’m sure it’ll be worth it.

Just finish the bloody thing, already! And in your next life, make crappier games so people won’t be on pins and needles like this.

That’s a shame, but do what you have to, to make it right.

Good luck with the game! I’m SURE it will be worth the wait.

With each and every delay, I begin to increasingly wonder just exactly who the fool is here. :-(

But I suppose that even if you end up _never_ completing the second installment, the pre-order fee is but small compensation for the astounding experience I had with the first one. Good luck! Creating a true successor to The Fool’s Errand is a task that seems nigh impossible in my mind. But if anyone could do it, it’d be you.

Keep on soldiering on. We support you whole-heartedly!!!!!

Now I’m getting’ antzy for the game. I really, really, REALLY hope you are going to do a sequel to 3 in Three. It was always my favourite game on my first Mac, a Mac Plus.x

It’s too late for the emotional suffering. I have been hooked on your games too long. I guess I could wait till the cows come home.

I remember 10 years ago when I emailed you about the fool’s errand and asking about fool’s two. You send me a copy of the puzzle gallery. I never forgot that and have been a fan of your work for many years. I will wait and wait as a True Believer should. Being a Pastor I have learned about patience. If you don’t have patience you can’t be a good Doctor.

Have a great day. Get back to work! (HE HE)

As ever, you remain awesome. Looking forward to the game. Miss your newsletter!

Not bad news at all. If it is not exactly as amazing as you envisioned then what would be the point?

YOU need to love it first and If you can’t fully focus or are overwhelmed..that is ok. Take your time. It will be so much better. You cannot revolve your projects around others impatience or a self imposed deadline that just didn’t work out. That’s life. Quality #1, everything else doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme.

I eagerly await Halloween but even if it is later than that I will be happy to wait. My sister-in-law
sent me a ticket to Spain for April Fool’s Day anyway.

Don’t let me keep you from working hard at TF&HM - at least it didn’t turn out to be an elaborate April Fool hoax, although I was starting to think that maybe it’s the “...are soon parted” bit that I should be worried about (and I’m sure I’m not the first nor the last to think that :-)

Just wanted to say that I know it will be worth the wait, and that I wish there was some way your eager audience could help you: but that would be kind of missing the point, I think.

So this is to confirm that the contact details you have for me are correct, and that I don’t anticipate them changing in the near future. Next decade I can’t be so confident about, but I have every confidence that TF&HM will have been completed by then. Won’t it?

It’s nice to see quality over a rushed product (as seen so much these days). Take your time, and I eagerly await it’s release (as well as a sequel to 3 in Three!)

Well I won’t lie and say I’m not dissapointed. However, I’ve waited 15 years for this, another six months won’t kill me. You’re on my short list, along with Terry Pratchett, Norah Jones, Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton - whenever, wherever, however you release a new work, rest assured I will be there, cash in hand.

One of your games is well worth waiting for. I am certainly willing to wait until you do it as it should be done. Best of luck with it, and I sure look forward to playing it when you’re done.

I will await your effort with a smile.

When I considered whether to pre-buy your game I knew it was likely there would be delays. I really do believe you will finish it but I had to consider the worst-case scenario: what if it is never released and you disappear without refunding the money? I immediately realized that if that did happen I couldn’t begrudge it you, because you have earned at least that much Tribute for making it possible for me to enjoy The Fool’s Errand all those years ago (the others games too, but especially TFE).

Do what you need to do to make yourself proud. I will welcome The Fool And His Money whenever it is ready.

Thanks CLiFF! I am very much looking forward to your new game. And...I hope that you don’t stress out too much about the release date. I can easily wait. Waiting makes it all the more fun.

Take your time! Don’t kill yourself to get it out; release it when it’s ready to be released.

Oh, and I just found out you did the animation on “Out Of Control.” You’re like the king of enchantingly bizarre and amazing things. Is it safe to assume Terry Gilliam was your main inspiration? {Yes}

I knew I should have sent the money sooner so I’d be earlier in the compendium. :-) (I can’t think *why* I wanted to wait until after I’d completed the 1st Annual puzzle, and even then I was late after that. Oh well.

Look, I’ve had the displeasure of knowing that the money I paid for 3 in Three when it first came out from CinemaWare probably never got more than a pittance to you, if that much. And I bought an NEC single-speed CD-ROM drive for the Mac when they were the latest thing and some $600, just because I’d heard a rumor that Fool’s Paradise was coming out on CD-ROM “that year.” (I was only just out of college then, and hadn’t been exposed to the term “vaporware” yet. Ah, youth.)

So, you want me to get upset at having to wait a mere 7 months more? Just for finally getting some cash directly to you? Ha! I wouldn’t be very worthy of the title “True Believer” then, would I?

And “That’s *TRUE* Believer to you, Mister.”

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