a proposed sequel, "milliways: the restaurant at the end of the universe", which was to continue from the ending of the original, had problems from the start in 1985, until it was cancelled in 1989. this was due primarily down to the facts that there was "no solid game design, nobody to program it, and the backdrop of infocom's larger economic problems". the beginning stages of the game were leaked in april 2008, however the majority of it had yet to be written by the time it was cancelled.