Hi everyone I hope you are doing well, today I have some important news regarding the game’s launch date. (prepare for a long post)

I had decided to do not post updates unless it was to announce that the game was available since I have moved the launch date many times but because an issue that it’s out of my hands I decided to give you an update on what’s happening with the game.

Why we do not see progress on the game?

The game have been progressing slowly because I was working with a temporal contract in a big US enterprise. I took this job because it was related to the field of study of the master degree that I’m currently studying and because the game needs more money than the one that we won on Honduras Startup. I finished my contract last Friday but there’s still a possibility that I return as full time in the near future.

So… is there any progress?

Yup, there is some important progress that it was made during this 3 moths that I’m proud of … unfortunately it is more related to an administrative work rather than the game… take a look:

• I have setup an Alpha Test here on Game Jolt (It haven’t started yet but it will pretty soon)

• We are doing a QA to improve the game experience since I feel the game has more potential.

• I have set up our marketplace account so we can deliver the game here on this wonderful platform.

• I’m finishing the Alpha build

• We made a successful Greenlight campaign ( I said “we” because without your support this could not have been possible)

• We are official Steamworks Partners (Filling the paperwork took a lot of my time)

• I’m implementing the steamworks API to the game and setting up an Alpha test there as well

• I’m working on the new brand Image for Gelo Studio with Martina Fackova the artist that help us with the Illustrations for the game

• Gelo Studio is now legally established as a sole partnership

Ok too much blah blah and the release date???

Everything has been working smoothly with Game Jolt and Steam <3 but…. I live in a very…. no… extremely bureaucratic country with a serious corruption and drug dealing problem and for that reason one of the internal requirements to fully be able to work with US companies here at my country is to wait 3 months since I declare that I’ll work as a partner with an US company so they can check my activity during that period and then enable me to have relationships with US companies.

The 3 months period finish on July 1st, so unfortunately I won’t be able to deliver you the game before that date. So I’ll say that the official release date for Human Piñata for now is: Summer 2017

I plan to write an small article about developing a game in Latin America after my experience with Human Piñata since the challenges are way too different.

Sorry for the long post and I really appreciate your support to the game it means the world to me <3 and I can promise you to bring you a great but short gaming experience!

Until Next Time