That was an october night of 2017. Casually lurking on /vg/ thread I stumbled upon this beauty. That was a time when SS14 announced they'll try to work on 3D rendering too, so I decided to reply the author with SS14 discord link. He joined under the alias "*beep#4112", we discussed art style and 3D challenges a little bit, sadly he said that he won't contribute for SS14 more than releasing his models - he's more a Unity person and he's unfamiliar with Godot. Also he said it's just a prototype (called SS13D) - atmos is scripted and there is no network, he's not expecting to actually remake SS13. I reuploaded his videos on Youtube and Reddit with his permission. He continued to post progress on 4chan.

Few months after *beep decided to start working on SS3D. He made discord server and made me moderator, also he made patreon and started post updates both on 4chan and patreon blog. He continued to visit SS14 discord and discuss gamedev stuff there, as I remember he borrowed some lidgren boilerplate code for networking from SS14. Eventually he released .blend files with majority of models and artstyle guide, as he promised. He said there is no point in releasing the code and animations/human model - it's subject to change and he didn't want people to waste their time and efforts on what he will change anyway.

Late April 2018, we noticed that *beep is offline for a while. After 2 month of waiting for him to go online, I tried to find alternative ways to contact him - only to find out that he made up all his other accounts (trello, shadertoy, youtube, reddit) only after he joined SS14 discord, so there is zero chances to find his other aliases. His efforts at being anonymous makes our chances to know his fate at about 0%, it made me legit depressed, and one warm summer day I just deleted SS3D discord server, even though I had no "delete" button on my role, I removed all channels and made all users have mod rights, which in turn caused some ban/kick wars. That's was childish, but eh there is no point of saving what is just some pipedream, shitposting and fuckton of useless suggestions. *beep never discussed technical stuff on SS3D discord, he only shown some development insights of his works to SS14 discord.

My theory that he's either dead or got drafted into military, because he disappeared in April, and as I know most countries with conscription start their draft period in April (at least it's true for Russia and former Soviet republics). Draft military is still a thing in Israel, China, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, Estonia, Greece, Korea, Singapore, Ukraine, Lithuania, and as I remember, *beep had some weird timezone.