Greetings Mistwalkers and Therians,
We hope you are enjoying your winter holidays. We have good news for you, but first here is what happened last year.
Our games are passion projects and we give everything we can to them, even when the odds are against us. That way of thinking can make us "overpromise", and this is what we did in the news about the 2024 planning, we would like to apologize for that.
Instead of doing half-baked updates to meet our promises, we decided to just stop, take a step back and rethink our situation. Getting out of the production for the games gave us the opportunity to explore new avenues for the studio.
Our first big news it that results for our exploration came in just a few weeks ago, and it was very positive! It's money stuff so we can't talk about it, but we can start talking about the future (without "overpromising").
As for today, our game engines are considered done, both systems are unique and offer a good support for gameplay and storytelling and they were designed for never-ending games. Future updates will be only game content, but we will have to change the way we do them.
In all Virtys history, we got an incredible help from the community. We think part of our future is to take that a step further. Our engines are built in a data-first way, meaning that we could have a community-based team thinking about new content and we could have a way to translate that to community-based game update.
What we will do starting in January is to give a better structure to this cooperation and see where is lead us. On the technical side, we already started work on the production pipeline for both games to be ready for new release and there will be an infrastructure upgrade in February to make sure our servers are up for the long run.
We won't do any promise on updates count and dates, this would be futile. We will give you everything we can.
The second big news is that Cloudigger, our lead writer on both Mist Legacy and Therian Saga, will come back to help us. He had to step away for a few years and we know the impact was felt a lot in the games. This is not a full-time return, but having one of the founders back home is really a big boost for us.
And finally, there is a third project for Virtys on the horizon, we are nowhere near the big reveal, but this project is the catalyst that allowed us to secure the future of the studio. In due time we will tell you more.
For Mistwalkers: Because of climate change in Valsonge, there won't be any snow for Christmas in your domain, but we reduced the price of all items in the game shop so you can make yourself well dressed for when the snow comes.
Thanks for playing with us!
