It is time: The grand winner of the Copy Ability Contest is now officially revealed! I want to thank everyone who took part in this event, it truly was a blast to see everyone's efforts. You are all winners in my eyes, and it has inspired us to put in our all as well! So, without further ado...

Chess Kirby, a brand new power, will be making its way into Kirby & The Eternal Paradise as part of the Copy Ability roster! Heavily derivative of the most popular game of all time, you'll soar diagonally with the Bishop's strength, attack in an L formation with the Knight's finesse and summon Chess Pieces into the field. Fortify your offense & defense with this strategic management ability and exert complete rule over the board (and your enemies)! Full details on the moveset won't be revealed until a later date, nor will the ability appear in version 0.4, so please be patient with us as we try and make it the best it can be.

There was no visual design given as part of the submission, so we came up with a hat ourselves! I want to give huge shoutouts to everyone mentioned in the picture, without whom we could not have shown all this today. Go give them a pat on the shoulder, they deserve it!

So... is that truly it? Is it really over?

...As it turns out, not at all! We also have 12 RUNNER-UPS which I've chosen to also have an appearance in the game, albeit not as Copy Abilities! Whether a costume for a subgame, part of a background element, easter eggs or something completely different: those designs & ideas will live on! We will be revealing the identities of these runner-ups over the course of the game's development, each one having a news update describing how they'll be featured.

We hope you'll look forward to the reveals!

Thank you to everyone for the support. See you next contest!

P.S. - Today also marks the 1st year of development done on the game, hooray! Here's to a productive 2nd year!