Good Day Folks,

Today I've come with a rather important and major announcement.  Well a number of them actually, good and sorta bad news depending on your viewpoint.  Don't worry,  it's nothing terrible!  Anyway, let's start with the good stuff.

This update includes an additional route and new CG.  The stuff that you've come to love and that I hope you enjoy!  This new route is a bit shorter than the other routes that have been added in, but that's primarily because of where it branches off at in the game itself.  Nevertheless, I'm certain that you're going to enjoy it even if it is a bit shorter than usual, there's still quite a breadth of content to explore if you're willing to replay a few options here and there.

And do you know what it means to have this route added in?  It means that we've reached the 50% mark!  We're halfway there, with 8 of the routes scripted progress has been going smoothly at a nice even pace for these past few months and if all goes well I'll be able to meet that January 2023 release date!  Cheers for that!  It's been wonderful to see the game change and evolve over these past 6 months and it will continue to do so but at this point, I'm happy to take a breather to see how far it's come along and I hope that those of you who've stayed with me till that point have noticed the changes as well!

Those of you that have been staying up to date, did you notice that there's a steam page for the game up as well?  If you've downloaded the game thus far, I'd highly recommend wishlisting it and sharing the page with your friends, family, and peers if you think that they'd be interested in this game as well.  It'd mean a lot to me if you did! 

 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058090/The_Game_of_Fourtune/?curator_clanid=... 

Alright, so we've gone through most of the good news here comes the bittersweet stuff.  Now I've been extremely happy putting out updates, showing route after route as it's been completed, and gleefully enjoying the comments, reviews, and thoughts from various people.  However this is where that ends, development is going to be going into a more quiet phase now.  By that, I mean that I won't be uploading any more game updates here on itch until the final game is complete.  Unless there's some hidden game-breaking bug that I missed in this update pops up, but otherwise, this is what you'll all have for the foreseeable future. 

That said, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop posting updates.  I'll still be doing devlogs from time to time as well as letting you all know how progress is coming in these next few months.  After all there's still a lot I feel like I want/need to talk about with this game so I'll still be around.

But... if you really want to see how the game is coming along, really want to help with the development, I'm currently looking for some beta-testers for the game primarily to help improve the overall feel and flow of the game and to make sure that I don't miss any bugs or errors.  Especially since there's a lot of content for this game it's important that I have a variety of people that can ensure the game's in a solid-state.  If you're interested in helping out, then feel free to reach out to me through the following means.

Email: Kenneth3k1@gmail.com

Twitter

Discord

Thank you all for your support thus far and I hope you look forward to the game in its full and grand glory in the future!  Until then...

Good Luck and Good Fortune!