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Smitty 2
4 months ago

Smitty 2 Game Jolt page is now live!


Started development in April 2024, Smitty 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Smitty's Journey.

Since April 2022, I began development on Balls n' Stars 2 to celebrate the first game's 5th anniversary, after Round Rotate 2 ended up becoming a lost cause after I accidentally formatted my SSDs unceremoniously days prior to the day I began working on BnS2. And 2 years later, I decided to pause its development in favor of this project instead, because Smitty has come a long way, especially in 2023 when he received a burst of popularity. So, thanks for that!

Anyway, I've set up the Game Jolt page since May, but didn't actually finish it since I have no screenshots to show yet. That's gonna change today, because starting now, all progress videos will be shown in this page as they were posted on both Twitter and my Discord server (please join, by the way, we can be friends too!).

I hope you're looking forward to Smitty 2 and everything it has to offer over the first game!

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