Dear Players,
Today marks a significant milestone as we officially launch "Shanghai Summer" on Steam!
This journey, spanning over four years, saw us through the challenges of the pandemic, team transitions, and substantial content revisions in 2023 to leverage our team's expanded capabilities. Finally, we are proud to present the fruits of our hard work with you all today and extend our heartfelt thanks for your patience and support.
Looking ahead, we plan to continue to polish the game to ensure the gameplay experience can be as smooth and immersive as possible.
Optimization and Bug Fixes: Our immediate attention post-release is on addressing any emerging bugs and fine-tuning performance and narrative elements, guided by community feedback.
Dialogue Box and Character Emoticon: To make up for the lack of voice-acting, we plan to further implement a feature that would allow the design of dialogue box to change based on the emotions of characters within conversations, while adding more character emoticons that are already in game.
Additional Bad-Ending CGs: High on the priority list, we're committed to creating new illustrations for a few Bad-Endings that currently lack exclusive CGs.
Character Animation Improvement: Character’s animation, especially for special interactions, will be improved to enrich the sense of immersion.
Digital Artbook and OST: A digital collection of all original art materials from the past four years will be compiled into a DLC, alongside the original soundtrack. We’d also like to take that as an opportunity to commemorate how the project has evolved throughout the development.
Community Item: A variety of Steam community items, including profile backgrounds, animated avatars, badges, emoticons, and trading cards, will be released at a later time.
Our goal is to complete these updates and enhancements by June 2024, prioritizing in-game optimizations. While developing additional art resources may take time, we're dedicated to producing high-quality content promptly and appreciate your patience.
After the Lunar New Year break, we'll re-engage in development at full capacity to address bugs and enhance gameplay. Your feedback is invaluable to us as we strive for continuous improvement. Whether you prefer to leave us a message on the Steam Discussion Board or engage with us directly on Discord at https://discord.gg/QbqJwHWBTn, your suggestions are crucial in our quest to refine "Shanghai Summer."
Wish everyone a prosperous Lunar Chinese New Year.
With Love and Respect,
The Development Team
