Merry Christmas everyone ;)

Ho ho ho, it's Christmas again.

Anyway, sorry I've been quiet again for a month or however long it's been, IRL has been busy. It's now Christmas eve, and I seem to remember saying at one point that both the final Stormside update, and Studio Hearts 0.2 would be released before Christmas. I can't remember if I said that in a PM to someone, or in Discord, or here somewhere, but I suppose it doesn't matter. Turns out I bit off more than I could chew with that deadline, so I have good news and bad news.

I will start with the bad. Stormside update still isn't finished. I've had much more limited time than I wanted after returning to work after the Studio Hearts 0.1 release, and I decided to work on both at the same time initially, before kinda going all in on SH over the last month. So Stormside will be my priority for January. This does however bring me to the good news.

Studio Hearts 0.2 is finished, and will be released today, at some point in the next few hours. (I'm currently doing some final testing to make sure I don't have to travel back home to fix shit after I go to my parent's place tomorrow. There will probably be typos, but those can wait until after I'm back)

Christmas eve is most likely a kinda stupid release date from a business perspective, since I assume everyone is off visiting family and stuff and won't be around to play it, but since I said both things would be released before Christmas, I'd like to get it right for at least one of those two things, so I'm gonna do it anyway.

I'm also going to be shifting all the branding here over to SH some time between Christmas and new year, but that shouldn't really affect anyone. Just some name changes for tiers, new banner, etc.

The new update is quite a bit bigger than the first one, sitting at something like 2700 renders and just under 200 animations, hence why it took about 3x as long to make (Though luckily for me, I didn't have to build any new systems this time). There's a mostly full changelog in the game itself, but I'll post it in the actual release post as well.

I don't have too much else to say at the moment, other than I'll check all my messages and things between Christmas and New Year. I briefly looked at them today and saw I had a whole bunch I had no idea about, so clearly when I "fixed" my notifications before, I didn't actually fix them.

I hope everyone has a good Christmas, or if you call it something else, or don't celebrate it at all, just have a good day in general lol