Hey y'all, Ape here.

First off I wanted to thank all of you for your extreme patients with the team and I, this project has turned out to be way bigger than anyone of use could have imagined. I've said this a couple times now but I'll say it again, Deception of Fate is the very first project I and a couple others have ever worked on. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you guys for being patient and supporting us.

Now for what you guys are really here for, an update on development.

Well to start off, I'm happy to say Deception of Fate is in a really good spot right now. Almost everything is done, all we're really doing now is animating some cutscenes, dubbing every line to Russian, and overall bug fixes & optimization. However, this doesn't mean that the game is near completion, we'll most likely have to delay the full release to 2024. I know delays are never fun, but if we were to release the game too soon, we would really disappoint our loyal fans.

There many reasons as to why this projects has taken so long, one of the biggest reasons being game development isn't our life, tons of the team members have jobs and or schooling that simply takes priority over this project, though if we could make this our entire life we most certainly would. Another reason the full release isn't out yet is due to the fact that some of us (me primarily) are learning as we go, this means some assets were produced all the way back when we started, this usually leads to the style of the game being mismatched with the more recent assets. Another thing that we've had to go back and improve is a lot of the programming, tons of the old scripts present in the demo are now outdated, so we've had to go back and enhance/redo those.

Developing this game has been a wonderful ride, and every step of the process has felt as if we were walking in heaven itself. Again I want to thank all of you for all of your patients and support, this game probably would be cancelled by now if it wasn't for you guys.

With all of my explaining done, I think it's time I end this article. Big thanks to everyone who read the entirety of this article, I had a lot more fun writing this thing than I originally expected. Be sure to keep your eyes pealed for more of these things along with some up coming teasers.

Thanks for everything!
-Ape & the team