Hello there fellow earthlings!

TJ here with some pretty awesome news on this fine day. Many things have happened since our last update here on itch.io. We went straight back into pre production so we can get the team redirected onto our bigger goals for Ecliptic. We got to experiment, reassess design pillars, work on concepts, finalising the full story and scripts. Amongst all of the serious hard work the team has been doing to get us ready for Ecliptic development round 2, there have been some fun business adventures in the background. 

GRANT FUNDING?

We applied for our first funding round, it was a lot of painstaking hours and lots of long days for the admin team but we did it! While we didn’t get the funding we applied for, we did get some wonderful feedback about our pitch and the game itself. Next up on the funding is trying for a grant that suits our project a bit more,,,, intimately. :) So stay tuned for that eventually!

SOCIAL MEDIA! 

Yes! While we have been sinking our teeth into some juicy game lore and art, our very own Celest <3 has been working away at our social media presence. You can now also find us on instagram as well as youtube and X. 

https://www.instagram.com/madewithcookies

PRODUCTION

As this dev log goes live we will be transitioning into production for Ecliptic ahead of a very exciting date later in the year. For this mysterious event we might be a part of, we will be pushing forward for our official demo! It will feature Act 1 of the game as a more linear progression of the star signs rather than the most polished rooms we could string a story between. 

STEAM PAGE?!?!?!

We have squared away a lot of the business related things for our studio for now, having a real bank account (wild) and an actual business registered in our country (yipeee). 

Eventually that meant … we have set up the steam page for Ecliptic!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3025870?utm_source=source

While our game is going to be available on steam as coming soon; we will still have our demo listed here on our itch.io. It may not be the most up to date version of our game (coming with that,, mysterious event we have later in the year) but once the game is released it will also be available here too! 

There are so many things to do when developing a game for commercial release which is both a bit scary and very exciting. Now it’s time to figure out marketing! And getting ourselves wages so we can have dumplings together and bubble tea :)  Here’s to also being along for the ride, game developing as indies is so rewarding but also difficult; I can’t wait for Ecliptic to be in front of people again soon. 

TJ 🐸