AJ Freda of STJR on “Vacation”

Sonikku has clarified what happened; I’ll let him speak for himself:

Sorry – there’s a slight misunderstanding – I was mad at A.J because he could have spent a few more hours sorting out some of the bugs and released the version to ‘punish’ people, as seen in the chat log.

A.J said he may keep posting to the board – he’s said nothing definite. A.J won’t abandon the project – he always completes his projects…

That and the fact he’s got a Buzz Lightyear skin lined up for SRB2, so I don’t think he’ll be gone for long. ;-D

AJ confirmed that later:

That’s right. Stealth programming was already decided and I’ve welcomed it. who wants to slave over code, especially when you don’t know it?

And I DID spend all the time I could trying to sort out that bug. I tried flipping things which way and that but couldn’t fix it.

UPDATE 1/5: Sonikku has commented on the STJR message board. In it, he says that the page that contains the main game updates has the conflict, under December 28th.

Well, we checked the SRB2 Main Game Updates page, and there indeed was a conflict: AJ Freda could not solve some problems, and Sonikku apparently was made at AJ. He then immediately had Stealth take over.

We will continue to keep tabs on this, and have any further details as we get them.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 1/4: This is simply unbelievable. AJ Freda, AKA Tails, who is part of STJR, has decided to take a leave of absence from the team for who knows how long. Here’s what he said:

I’m taking a vacation from STJr for an undecided length. I’m tired of working very hard on something and being yelled at for things I am not capable of doing.

I started on SRB2:Xmas in late November and spent over 100 hours on the code. There were problems I couldn’t fix since I don’t know C. I was not being lazy.

Sonikku has yet to comment on this, and the Sonic Scene will try to contact him as quickly as we can.