An Update From the Dev Before Tomorrow's Release

Before tomorrow's release, I just wanted to put out a little message.

First and foremost, let me just say what a long and crazy journey it's been getting to this point. A lot of blood, swear and tears has been poured into this game, and I hope that it truly shows in the finished product. While this has been a one man operation the whole way through, no man is an island and it's important to give credit where it's due. To everyone on the Solarus forums and on the Solarus discord who has taken time to help me, whether it be through my various questions or by helping me with my coding struggles, you guys are the best and I TRULY would not have been able to do this without you all. Same goes to family, friends, anyone who has taken an interest in my game, you've given me the inspiration to keep going and seeing it through until release, of course including you who is reading this now.

Now to you, thank you so much for taking the time to even check the game's page and an extra thank you for taking the time to read this message, it means the world to me. I do hope that when the game is released, you will consider picking it up and exploring the world and dungeons I've built, but either way this is more than enough for me. But know that if you do decide to purchase Long Steel I will be forever grateful. Ten dollars means different things to different people, for some it's just a drop in the bucket, to others it's a massive deal. (To me, it's a halal platter with all the fixins ;P) So regardless of what it is to you, it's priceless to me that you would spend any kind of money for something that I made.

To close this out, I do just want to be transparent with all of you. As I've said before, this has been a one man operation, and while I want more than anything to say that this is a fully fleshed out experience, bug free no problems, I know that may not be entirely realistic. I spent a pain staking number of hours running the game and running the game, but I'm sure once the game is out there, some of you may experience some bugs or issues (SHOULDN'T be anything game breaking unless somehow I REALLY messed up lol) that me and my play testers haven't encountered. Know that it is not my intent to release an unfinished game, if that was the case it would've been out much sooner. But I am human and mistakes do happen and all I want to to grow from this experience and make Long Steel the best game it can possibly be. With that, I am leaving an email where you can leave criticisms of any kind at the bottom of this message. Whether it be a bug you encountered, something you don't like about the game, a pixel you think should be placed differently, whatever it is. An email sent is an email read and that's a promise. I want nothing more than to gain your trust as a game developer.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this message and I hope you will consider questing through Melas!

Thanks, Kyle

SUPPORT EMAIL: kyletassonegames@gmail.com