Dear friend,
It is well known that fairies are one of the most shy and timid magical creatures out there. So it is with great unease that I confess, I have not been still even though I have been hiding from you...
Kinnekulle Vårrundan
I hesitate showing The Merry Fairy at real life events. To be properly experienced, my enchanted cottage requires a calm and silent surrounding. However, I decided to participate at Kinnekulle Vårrundan, because this event is extra special. During the first weekend of May, all artisans around Fairyland are invited to open the doors to their workshops and many local folk come to experience two days of creativity, ingenuity and lots of great fika. What better way to showcase my little magical cottage?
If you are one of the magical creatures that came to meet me, Hi there! I hoped a handful of people might come, but no more than five or so. And yet as the sun caressed the part of Fairyland that I call the Wizards Meadow, I received visit after visit and filled my heart with delight and inspiration as I met so many creative, curious, ingenious kindred spirits! I hope you will consider contacting me. Right here on Steam is a great place and it helps me a lot, but any other way is great, too. I even fixed the links on my website, www.TheMerryFairy.se, and started to draft a kind of a very fairylike social media activity plan!
Indie Assemble
Meanwhile in the digital realm, more magic is happening! This Merry Fairy is very happy to partake in Indie Assemble, a global celebration of Indie Games curated with a lot of care and love by Excalibur.
Indie Assemble features over 1,000 indie games from a wide variety of genres, made by over 600 game studios from no less that 63 countries around the world. “The interest shown in Indie Assemble has been astounding” says Giorgio Catania, Founder of Excaliber and curator of the initiative. “I wasn’t expecting such a massive response, but once word spread through the channels frequented by international indie developers, participation requests started pouring in nonstop. And since Excaliber’s mission is to foster the growth of the video game industry, with a particular focus on the indie scene, expanding the reach of the promotion as much as possible was a natural and spontaneous choice. Because, as I have learned from my many years of experience in the field, there is strength in unity.”
Thank you so very much, Giorgio, for organizing this beautiful and very helpful event!
The Merry Fairy Demo update
With so much going on socially, it almost feels like Vårrundan and Indie Assemble conspire to save the poor little bugs that found a nice and warm home in my latest build. I can, however, happily report that I did find quite a few of them, and guided them gently outside my cottage, where they belong.
I am planning one last big update for The Merry Fairy Demo, before I focus my full and undivided attention towards the full game. The Demo update's greatest focus is on performance optimisation and bug fixing, but it does carry a bit of shiny new features and content as well.
What, the public demo version is #35?!!!
It's been a while since I gave the public version a try! Meanwhile, besides a lot of optimisation, stuff moved around a little bit in the cottage, fresh content appeared in the guestbook and the Decoration pages gained a bunch of extra buttons.
I still seek magical creatures to help me test the last Demo update. If this is you, please reach out right here on Steam, or on my Discord server.
Thank you for reading this! 🌸🌸🌸
