Happy New Year!

New Year, new routes, huzzah!  This is a quickie, but if you backed at a level that gets you the Made Marion Mega-Guide, please take a gander under Studio Updates.

Studio Updates

1. I decided to shutter our studio website experiment because I didn't have the time or bandwidth to run a website along with everything else. It was too expensive for not enough exposure because holy geez do I not have time to play SEO games. velvetcupcakegames.com no longer exists.
2. This means I will be finding a new place to store updates to the Made Marion Mega-Guide. Those of you who backed the Mega-Guide will receive a new download key from Backerkit once I release the Will updates (I'm late on that, sorry!) and that copy will contain a new download location for updates.
3. I have started a company Bluesky, since that appears to be where people are finally solidifying after the Twitterpocalypse. You can find us as Velvet Cupcake Games:  https://bsky.app/profile/velvetcupcakegames.bsky.social

Development Updates

• I've been dealing with some major hypersomnia (bordering on narcolepsy) since December, which eats into my work hours. I'm working with my new specialist to get on chronic fatigue meds, which can be helpful for long haul Covid folks, but the wheels of medicine turn slowly and we need to find a solution that costs less than $18,000 for a three-month supply.
• That said, John Chapter 1 is coming along and I'm setting a hopeful end of January, definitely mid-February due date for its completion.
• We will be in a ton of Steam festivals through Feb-March and will have a sale going for at least some of them (I just learned I might be able to run a discount for more than one fest if they overlap).  Watch our socials (Tumblr and Bluesky) for info!  I'm hoping to have a video preview of John's route out for the fests as well.
• Why are all the Steam festivals that are a good match for us running Feb-Mar?  I don't knooooow, but I think the festivals themselves have noticed this and hopefully they'll spread themselves out more next year. :-p

That's it for Jan, see y'all mid-Feb!