Hey everyone! Sorry about the lack of updates and general radio-silence from me. It's been a hectic couple months for me since I started my first real job and moved to a new city for it. These big life changes were the reason the original release date was in Q2 of 2024. While I could have released the game by the original release date (fun fact: June 20th), it would have been pretty buggy and I don’t think I would have been proud to release it. As a result, I delayed the release all the way to November of 2024 (An exact date will be announced later). Development will be much slower considering my new 9-5, but I believe 5 months will be enough to create a fully realized and polished game.
I’m really sorry for not updating you guys about this earlier, I haven’t gotten used to having a community following my projects. That being said, I would really love to get this community involved in development and meet you all! I’m going to make weekly Toastercide updates from now on and I would love to host a meet and greet/playtest session this week. I have a bunch of minor updates, a major mechanic change, and an unreleased level that I would love to get feedback on. For those of you who are waiting on the playtest, this is your chance to get a key directly from me (there’s 650 people waiting for the playtest, and steam assigns keys randomly)!
If you are interested in meeting the developer of this silly game, join the discord via the link below, and meet me in the Playtest voice channel Thursday 9/5 at 8pm EST. I hope to see you there and I’m excited to meet you all! If you can’t make it, don’t worry, I’m planning on having these sessions regularly (maybe bi-weekly?). Let me know what else you would like from me (Q/A, Development Streams, etc)!
-Ryan
TLDR: I’ve been very busy with new life changes, but I finally have some updates that I am going to show off in a playtest session Thursday 9/5 at 8pm EST.
Discord Event Link: https://discord.gg/28kBHkhN?event=1279588601235116113