Here I am again for another yearly post!

Yet again a lot has happened since this year so here we go!!

Last we talked I had taken a step back from making video games until sometime mid this year I was approached by a game studio about helping out with programming their games so I've been busy doing that and doing that inspired me to get back into making some of my own stuff soooo back in July I started working on a mini project called 'Down With Hell: Crystal'

Trailer: Down With Hell: Crystal Reveal Trailer

I hope any old Rusty fan can find joy in this project : )

The Down With Hell series should please anyone who loved Rusty's and wanted more from the series!

I don't talk too much about my personal life online as I try to stay fairly anonymous but I think I'm okay spilling some of my life details here as this is a personal place for me anyways.

I got engaged to the love of my life on Sonic movie 3 release day of course cause my fiancé and I are hella nerds like that, I've gotten a new super hot rod pc that has allowed me to work on stuff much faster and of course I got my new job as a programmer for an indie game studio.

I've been working through some hard moments as well but all in all this past year has been a great one for me I've grown a lot as a person and I'm proud of who I'm growing into and I hope you can see that growth through the games I make. In that growth I've found a new better name for myself that being Melanie or Mellie for short, it's a name I just sorta connect with and it makes me feel more at home with myself.

That being said all future games are going to be published under 'Mellie Devs Games' until further notice : )

If you're an OG Rusty fan and your somehow reading this thank you for having played my terrible little game way back when, you inspired me to keep going when others kept telling me I should stop and because of you I'm where I'm at today, I hope you're doing well and that you too are also growing into a wonderful inspiring person with your own amazing story!

Happy six years of Rusty's Emporium Of Fun PROLOGUE

Thank you for reading and sticking around all this time

Sincerely

-Melanie S. (MDG)