Update #24 (Publishing News & Expansion!)

Hey Everyone!

We've got some big news... We've got our Publisher! 🎉🎉🎉

This means some massive expansion within the next few months, DLCs, PS5 and Xbox ports, and MUCH more! (More in "The Details"!)

Now let's get to our update!

**We and I (The Dev) apologize for the late update this week! We've had some massive Publishing work that has consumed us the past week, and I personally apologize for the delay:/

Highlights:

⋅ Publishing Deal! 🎉🎉🎉 (WOO)

⋅ Level "Factory" (577) Optimizations and Updates

⋅ Level "Hotel" (5) Procedural Expansion (More types of Hallways, turns, and endings/exits)

⋅ Further VHS Filter Polish and Optimization

Coming Soon:

⋅ Expansion!!! (Lots to talk about here!) (In "The Details")

⋅ Puzzle addition poll! (set for Thursday! 10/12)

⋅ Entity (Felix) Remodel Leak! (Due to some revisions and extra work we've decided to push this back a few more days:/) (Now set for Sunday! 10/15)

⋅ Even More Optimization!

⋅ Seamless Level Transition Work! (Update set for Sunday! 10/15)

⋅ "Childhood Memories" Challenge procedural Animation and Navigation system work! (possible leak within the week)

⋅ DLC and Release Poll! (Set for Friday! 10/13)

⋅ Alpha 4 News Update and Poll (Set for Saturday! 10/14) (I and The Team apologize for the delays here:/)

The Details (For Nerds):

This week, before we dive back into code, let's take a second and final dive into some publishing and expansion info & updates!

First things first... We've got our Publisher! After a few long talks and going through details we've decided to Sign with Playism! 🎉🎉🎉

This means some serious expansion very soon after everything clears in approximately a week! Let's see what's in store!

⋅ ) Team Expansion! With our new increased funding we've got some pretty big expansion and new positions to fill in the team! Character Animators, Sound Designers, Texture Artists, 3D Modelers, VFX Artists, and finally some New Devs! We're hoping to get most of the positions filled by 2 Weeks from now! So we can expect some serious upgrades in development speed very soon! (we will be holding a few applications on the discord server for a few positions if anyone here is interested!)

⋅ ) DLC & Porting News! Another perk of our new publishing deal is guaranteed (and cost covered) porting to both PS5 and Xbox! Which is quite a big weight off our backs personally. Porting, for those who haven't priced it out in their spare time, costs on average a mind boggling 70-150k... PER Console👀. Which is a massive perk alone to have covered and out of our budget🎉 But additionally, we also now have some solid foundation for DLCs with guaranteed full covered funding! (and possibly 4 new and already set levels) We are however still experimenting with the idea of the length and how DLCs will be implemented, and I and the team would like to hear your thoughts on it, so stay tuned for the DLC and Release Poll set for this Friday!

Let's all get ready for some massive expansion and some much needed new Dev faces!

Until next week,

Cheers!

Sven