Happy 4th Anna-versary, everybody! Believe it or not, today's date also coincides with the Lunar New Year, and it just so happens to be the Year of the Snake! I would say that means the Venom Brigade could bring us good fortune this year, but with this level of trust, I get the feeling they'd turn to mischief, instead.
Let's not worry about them and instead get into some announcements:
Two Huge Milestones!
In case you haven't checked the store page for this game recently, we've just recently crossed the threshold of over 500 total user reviews of the game, and since most of them are positive recommendations, that means Annalynn's Steam rating is now "Overwhelmingly Positive!" And this happened just a few days after 11 thousand lifetime units were sold on Steam, as well!
These are both milestones that I never even would have thought would be possible to reach, and it's only thanks to everyone who has bought, liked, and spread the word of the game to their friends that this many people have picked it up and recommended it. From the farthest, absolute bottom of my heart, THANK YOU so much.
So, what's next for this game?
Where Is 1.7?
If you missed last year's anniversary post, I mentioned that 1.7 was starting to be worked on and that I was estimating a Q2 2024 release date. I'm...a little late on getting that update ready - sorry! Between some features taking longer to implement than I had anticipated, as well as some personal setbacks on my own end, things did not progress as quickly as I had hoped for, and for that, I apologize.
However, I do have some good news - the 1.7 update is just about feature complete and is ready to undergo testing! While I still don't have a definitive time frame for when this update will be ready for you to play, rest assured that it's very close to completion. Stay tuned for more updates on this update!
As for 1.8...
Future Updates and Games
One reason why this latest update has been taking a while to get finished is that I've been investing more of my time into figuring out what project(s) I'd like to work on next. Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love giving back to the community with these gameplay updates (seriously, they wouldn't have even been possible without your support), and there's still plenty more updates that I want to do, but I also want to have more games of mine out there. I'm hopeful some of you will agree with me on that!
I won't get into too many details, since there's not a lot that can be shown for these upcoming games at the time being, but since I'm (more or less) the only person working on developing the gameplay updates, that means my attention is rather split between updating this game and creating new ones.
So, once the 1.7 update is finalized and released, this will be the latest planned update for the foreseeable future (barring any bug fixes that may be necessary).
I'm not saying that this will be the end of all updates forever - like I said, there's still a lot more stuff I'd like to add in the future - but this does mean that all of my current focus will be spent on getting more games off the ground. And yes, that includes more Annalynn!
When I do have another game ready to showcase, you'll know about it as soon as possible! Hopefully this gives you something to look forward to, and I greatly appreciate your patience waiting for it.
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That's all there is to announce, for now! Once again, thank you so very much for your continued support, and I hope you'll stick around for my future projects! Until next time!
- Cruise Elroy