Hey all, Bauske here.
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season! First off, I want to say thank you for your patience with this project. I feel like this year slipped away from me due to a number of factors. I had so much planned with Micro Stream RPG and unfortunately didn't get to do much of any of it. Between game issues, connectivity problems, and general life hiccups, things didn't turn out the way I wanted. I won't try to make excuses, but I do apologize for the long delay in getting any sort of updates out.
On that front, I've rebuilt some of the game engine and pinned down what I think was causing issues beforehand. Not only did my copy of Clickteam Fusion, the program I used to create Micro Stream RPG, go corrupt, but so did an extension which linked the game to Steam. Both of these were responsible for some of the issues the game was having, like crashing, locking up, and shortcut keys activating in the background. Never expected the program itself to sabotage my efforts. But, after reinstalling and rebuilding, it seems to be working properly now.
I've also reworked most of the connection coding to hopefully keep the game from randomly disconnecting from chat and/or stalling up. It's taken weeks/months of testing, waiting, and making sure the game stays connected to Twitch, but overall it seems much more stable now.
My hope was to surprise you all with a new update by mid December, but obviously that didn't happen. What I'm currently working on is taking a little longer than I expected to finish, but I hope it'll provide some fun content for you all to enjoy once I get it done. Currently I have dungeon 3 completed and dungeon 4 is about halfway done. I'm also trying to get the companion app to a place where it's useable for everyone as well. This will let you customize your character, view your progress, see your badges, bestiary, and more.
My plan at the moment is to finish this next update and get it launched hopefully by the end of January, and then release the companion app shortly afterward. I apologize again that it's been so long between updates, but as a perfectionist (I know, I know...) it's frustrating to push out an update that still has issues. I want to make sure the game is running as smoothly as possible without causing problems, and I'd rather the next update fix things than push out updates that cause more issues.
In any case, that's all I've got for now. Again, thanks everyone for your patience and for sticking with Micro Stream RPG. Hopefully this next year will help push the game forward and we can get out of the Early Access state! Have a wonderful new year with the people you care about and I look forward to chatting with you more in 2026!
~Bauske