Dear All Amenders,
We have just finished our exhibition tour at the 2023 World Science Fiction Conference. It is an honor to participate in the world-class sci-fi event and communicate closely with all the great designers and sci-fi fans within this industry, and we would like to express our special gratitude to all Lightracer's players who attended. We are currently continuing to develop our second free-download DLC - Stars Will and will be releasing it within November following our plan. Today we will tell more about the Lightracer series further development plan after the DLC2.
When designing the framework of Lightracer: Spark, we like to maintain the core of stories-telling, while exploring innovative gameplay, to achieve a game experience that combines both TRPG style and strategic gameplay of some sort. Until recently, we have noticed that some parts of our system operations are too cumbersome to help build stories and do not meet our expectations. This problem occurs most obviously at the first release of the base game - Spark. Although we have made efforts to avoid the subsequent DLC1, there are still significant shortcomings in the experience due to the overall game framework.
Now the base game Lightracer: Spark has updated the problems of the combat system that were from the collective feedback. The game sells at $12.99 and is packed with two free DLCs: DLC1 - Grey and Green and DLC2 - Stars Will (released in November) with extended game stories. We have indeed considered providing new content in the form of paid DLC in the future, and we understand that many of you want the story to continue, but based on the shortcomings of the framework mentioned earlier and the current feedback from players, continuing development is feasible but not ideal for the result. New stories will not escape the limits of the old game system, so we would rather start over, spend more time and effort on framework design by learning from the experiences and lessons, and release a new game in the future. We believe in the future, there will be a Lightracer game that has a better gameplay system that fits the core of sci-fi story-telling, we hope to live up to everyone's expectations.
Therefore, DLC2 "Stars Will" will be our last released DLC. Regarding the mobile end of Lightracer: Spark, we are actively coordinating with different channels and distributions, hoping to find suitable partners. The starry sea, a long voyage, we will reunite. Thank you all for your support!
P.S. Come for our free DLC2 in late November!