Hello everyone!
For some time we've been busy with our next update and if you aren't a part of our Discord server it very well may have seem a bit silent around Golden Light. To break the silence we got some important news to share.
Price increase
As we've already stated a couple of times both in our update posts and Early Access message on our steam page: we have plans to increase the price of the game. The initial plan was to do that upon release, but after we took time to overview the progress of Golden Light development and an increased scope of the game with features that weren't planned in the very beginning, stuff like Online Co-op, Meat Royale game mode and future additions, we've decided to pull the lever. There's no particular date or time for that, but we expect it to happen very soon after this post goes up. While the price hasn't changed yet - be sure to grab Golden Light if you wanted to for the current price.
Partnership with a Publisher
This may come as a surprise to some (even us, really), but soon we'll become a real indie dev with a Publisher on our side! Currently we're in process of signing up stuff and soon we'll be able to share more about this! This partnership will allow us to continue development of Golden Light comfortably and let us add even more meaty fun to the game, as well as to take more time to polish already existing content.
Speaking on the matter of time, let's jump into next bulletpoint.
Full Release Window Change
Our first plan was to come out of Early Access somewhere in the end of Q3/start of Q4 2021, and now, when we know that we won't die from hunger in the coming months - we've decided to shift full release window to Q1 2022. This way we'll have more time on our hands to add more stuff and polish the game, and for you it means that you'll get even more meaty goodness from Golden Light! With a new release window we won't stop pushing one major update once in two-three months and also can plan for new stuff after full release.
Next Major Update
The next major update is planned to release in a month, although you can experience some parts of it right now on the development branch of the game (alongside with bugs and instabilities that tend to happen on development branches C:<). Here's what you can look forward to:
- Online Co-op story bits and ending
- New system that lets mimics, monsters and friendly folks to pick up items. Sometimes you'll have to steal it from them!
- Cages biome visual overhaul to make it more unique, alongside a new enemy
- Pets improvements and an NPC that lets you heal them
- New boss weapons
- New mementos
- An even more clear visual navigation in the field
- Lots and lots of bugfixing/co-op stability imrpovements/optimization
- and more...
If you got any questions - be sure to ask em here on steam discussion board, or in our discord server if you want to get in contact with us even faster. https://discord.gg/f9YTrJjS7J