BIG Shrimp News!


Huge, huge news.

First off; apologies for the super late update; a lot of life and development stuff happened in the interim between now and then, mostly good news though! 

Most pertinently though, the biggest news is Shrimp itself; after careful deliberation, we're going to take a very big move, which is changing the entire framework that Shrimp will be playable on. Not the engine itself, but the accompanying framework that we are using the build the game and determine major facets of its gameplay. Here's what this means.

  1. The final release will be a bit pushed back, but ultimately much quicker in the long run. Before this move was made, we were in the alpha beta phase, and obviously this pushes it back to the development phase. However, 99% of the assets from before are reusable and therefore completed, which means that most of the work is the setup and reconfiguring the gameplay loop and features.
  2. Change of the gameplay loop and genre; before, Shrimp Magicality was just a simple walking simulator. Now, with the change in framework and improvements, it'll have a lot more gameplay meat; we're planning on giving it an action RPG edge for the dreams, which means that there will be a lot more to do. The actual number of chapters, or 'Dreams' will remain the same, as the general length of the game.
  3. The game will be a lot less jankier. This is still technically our 'first' full game in Unity, but the difference in accessibility and quality in the framework switch is already absolutely immense. Everything flows much smoother, development is easier, and a lot less buggier. This, combined with our teams growth in experience, will absolutely 100% be reflected in the final product. 

With that being said, we're going to be pulling the downloads for now in anticipation of what we're cooking up. Development is still going blazingly fast (yes, the difference really is that big), and I don't foresee this having a major impact on development time and release. 

I think we'll be able to give the full Shrimp experience before the end of the year. Expect a lot more updates a lot faster as well!

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