Too bad Noctis programmer went through an hard time... Last time I checked his website he had blogged about some kind of depression that arised from always trying to be perfectionist. And you can see this if you consider he was about to write everything from scratch for his next version of noctis. He started coding something like a new assembler language (if I remember correclty) which would have later be used to code the game in.

Yeah I used to hang around the forums waiting for Noctis V.

He was developing it in Linoleum, which is his own portable assembly language that he wrote. It's still available and an interesting experiment.