I'm sad to announce that discord is banned in the country for the programmer I was working with. Unfortunately, this means the goalpost of having a demo made in time for Half Life 2's 20th birthday is indefinitely pushed back. Until I can find another godot programmer to hop on board to be able to directly communicate with, I don't know when development will return.
In other news, the Half Life collaborations have been a go for about the last 2 weeks, surprisingly, zero participation on the edit collaboration, and I'm unaware of any new posts with #hl2bday for the other collaboration (but hey we got a judge!)