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Today marks exactly 1 year since Ova Magica was released into Early Access! 🎉
We’re incredibly happy and grateful for the amazing journey it’s been so far. Seeing players enjoy the game, share their experiences, and build a supportive community has meant the world to us.
Your feedback, passion, and love have helped to shape Ova Magica into what it is today. Thank you for being part of this adventure 💚!
To celebrate, we're launching a Screenshot Contest 📸✨!
Whether you're playing the demo or the full version, take your best (or funniest, or cutest!) screenshot and share it with us on Steam.
Rules:
🖼️ How to participate: Upload your screenshot or artwork (when edited) to the Ova Magica Steam Community Hub and post the link to it as comment below this post!
✅ Editing is allowed but no must – feel free to add funny captions, dramatic filters, or anything creative!
💚 Optional: Show your love for the game by sharing your screenshot on social media with the tags #OvaMagica and #OvaMagica1stAnniversary.
📅 DEADLINE: The contest runs for one month. All entries submitted by August 23rd at 11:59 PM PDT will be considered.
Prize:
This is meant to be a fun, social event for you—the Ova Magica community—but for a little extra motivation, we’ve got a prize:
🎁 Winners can choose betweenone Ova Magica Steam key OR a $25 Steam gift card*!
🍀 We’re also raffling one additional Ova Magica key / $25 Steam gift card among ALL participants — so everyone has a shot at winning!
We can’t wait to see what you come up with — good luck and have fun! 🥳
Additional Rules:
By participating you allow us to share your screenshots on social media and other channels.
You may submit multiple screenshots, but each person will only be entered once into the raffle.
*The Ova Magica key will be sent via DM or email and you can re-gift it to a friend if you already own the full game. If you choose the Steam gift card instead, it will be sent directly to your Steam account. To receive it, you'll need to temporarily accept a friend request from the developers.
Development News and Progress
We know many of you are looking forward to the 1.0 release of Ova Magica, and we really appreciate your patience and excitement💚. We're working hard on it — this will be the biggest update the game has seen so far, and also the final major milestone - the full release💪!
That also means there’s a lot involved. In addition to finishing the game content itself, we’re dealing with achievements, localization (over 200,000 words), console porting and certification, QA, Kickstarter rewards, marketing, and quite a bit more. For a small team like ours, it’s a big challenge, and some of these areas — especially localization — are more time-consuming than expected.
Also not everyone knows this, but most of the game is being developed by a single person — ClaudiaTheDev — with the publisher’s porting team working closely alongside her on the console versions. (So that means "We" here).
It's important for us to be transparent with our community and the Ova Magic players:
It will still take a few more months before we can realistically assess the full release timeline. Around autumn, we hope to have a clearer picture of whether a 2025 release — as originally planned — is still achievable. We'll keep
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