Wow it's already been a year! A whole 365 days! An entire rotation around the sun!

I know I can't believe it! it really does feel like just yesterday I pushed that cool little "publish game" button but I guess it's been abit longer than that.

Making this game has been really fun! and quite the learning experience I do say! ohoho! I've learned alot while making this game, like if you asked me what a surface was, I couldn't tell you! but know I'm a real coding wiz! using such advanced functions like, xor and draw_surface_part_ext I'm a real pro!

And I like to think I've gotten alot better at writing too! Now that I have alot more actual experience of doing it. It's always been the part of the game I've worried about the most. At first, I was really apprehensive on whether or not I actually should have dialog in the game. But I've always felt the cutscenes add alot more meaning to the songs and what happens in the game. Not to knock the base game or anything. But in its current state, to someone who isn't willing to read through hundreds of phantom arcade's tweets and just wants to play a video game. It's impossible to know what's going on. Which isn't a great thing when you're trying to make a story in my opinion! I've always favored having the games story be in, y'know. The game! and not requiring searching for outside context. That being saaaid, there probably are better ways of doing it that aren't through mountains of text in between gameplay like I've been doing.

Honestly going into this I thought I could finish the game in a year but y'know here we are, uh... 3 levels in out of 7. Yeah, I really want to try to pick up the pace abit with development, which can be difficult since we're just 2 guys. (with the occasional help from deklaswas for coding stuff and ampersand for playtesting) I'm not at all trying to say I don't enjoy working on this game but I don't really want to spend several years of my life working on a fnf fangame y'know? Theres other stuff I wanna make!

But thats enough from me! I give you the honor of being enlightened with...

"uh i guess all i would really wanna say is that working on free download over the past year has been really cool. i dont think ive actually gotten a chance to like improve on my stuff musically in a long time by getting feedback from people im working on an actual project with. i kind of gave up on music for a while lol. having like an actual community that really enjoys the stuff you make is something i've never really experienced before so being in the server and interacting with people is a really bizarre experience for me but im really grateful for it even if its a pretty niche community"

Thank you funne, very cool... I also should mention that funne also posted a cool little track to celebrate the anniversary!

I wanted to end this by saying thank you to everyone who has played the game! It means alot to me and funne, and its awesome to see everyone's response to the game and everyone's kind words really mean alot to us two fools!!!