Hello everyone, Lina here! 🎴🎄
First things first, we'd love to wish you all a Merry Christmas from the whole Mango Factory team!
It's been a roller-coaster of a year for us and we're so honoured having you all along for the ride! That said, we've got plenty of gifts to share with you all, starting with this stunning holiday artwork from our Art Director AlyenGhoul!
With our Absolute Plastic Surgeon's birthday likewise being December 25th, spotlighting her here was an easy choice. Check out all the little details!
Now onto the (slightly) more meaty stuff!
We're very excited to talk about a few digital events we're taking part in over the coming months, starting with Southeast Asia Games Onward 2024!
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25278687-Virtual-SEA-Games-from-SEAsia/sale/seago
As an Indonesia-based studio, we were so honoured to be invited to one of the largest showcases of our region’s upcoming games, and we hope you'll all come check it out! There's additionally a video presentation being hosted on December 29th over on the organizer’s YouTube channel.
Then in February, we'll also be a part of Two and a Half Studios’ event called The Storyteller’s Festival, a big celebration of narrative games and visual novels! More info on that next month, but we'll have something very special for the occasion!
In February 2025, we'll be releasing a content update for the Kumitantei Demo Version to polish it up in line with our standards for Episode 1, including bugfixes, QoL improvements, new features, and what we're revealing today... Tsubaki Inōe as a brand new Battle Demo opponent!
Tsubaki will be bringing her unique Palaeontologist Talent Card, as well as her unique animations and a bunch of never-before-seen character sprites from Episode 1!
Eagle-eyed viewers might also notice the suspiciously-Trial-Grounds-shaped backdrop, could this update even bring a change of scenery for the Battle Demo? Only time will tell, so stay tuned for next month.
As a final surprise for this month, we'd like to share with you a brand new track coming with the Demo Update titled “Nyanus, Your Overseer”, courtesy of our Composer and Audio Director Hundotte. Please enjoy!
To wrap this up, we'd like to again wish our whole community a wonderful holiday season and good tidings for the new year. We're able to keep working on this project we love because of you all, and we'll never ever take that for granted.
We have so much cool stuff in store for 2025 and we genuinely cannot wait to share all of it with all of you, so stay safe and have an Absolute Christmas!
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