Chapter 1 Steam release news (Patreon)

Some news on the Steam launch! 

As per usual there is always something going on when it comes to us and releases, haha! It's always a learning experience, especially the first time around on Steam, but amongst a few things I realized today that the price for the game was incorrectly configured too high. When I lowered the price it ended up needing a review from Steam, which automatically blocks you from beeing able to launch until the review is completed. Of course I was worried this would take a few days and spent a good amount of time reading up on this process... and a lot of valuable fixing time vanished. It took several hours to get it sorted out but in the end we got it approved from the Steam support. 

On top of that though, Steam communicated to us that they strongly advise us from releasing the game at this time, due to the fact that the steam winter sale is coming up on the 22nd of Dec up until 5th of January, and it will drown out the visibility for new launches. It's a tough decision because on one hand we have worked our assess off for a long time  and we are so close, but on the other hand, when steam tells you to hold off, and we've been working on this for so long, what's about 2 weeks longer, that could make all the difference. I wish they would have told us this sooner obviously.We're learning so much about this for Chapter 2 as well which we will be able to release soo much easier.  We've been working tirelessly to get you the steam version this weekend as we usually do around releases, but this is different, this is the entire chapter 1 and improved as well. We want to make sure its a better experience all around so that also means fixing some gremlins of the past, some scenes, some renders, some animations, that we were not so happy with. After all The game series is a labour of love and dedication and we want it to be a great experience! By high demand added in the " less smoking" option that we added in chapter 2.

We weren't planning to go back and add this feature because it is a lot of work but we were inspired by feedback, and revisiting the game ourselves.  We're talking several hundred renders that now have a smoke or no smoke version.  I for one have not slept more than 4 hours in the last 72! Running on fumes at the moment, and need to recharge my batteries soon to wrap up the remainder and take extra . We've talked about steam for a long time, I've worked on the steam client for a long time, and we're so close now! 

For those who want to help us gaining more visibility you can add the game on your steam wishlist.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1333560/Timestamps_Unconditional_Love/

Thanks everyone for your continued support. It's really awesome and motivating.

Aesouh