Hi scottwolf14 what you should do is click the follow button on the devs page. This way anytime the dev updates their Development Log Itchio will send you a notification to the email you listed when you made your account. Hope this helps Take Care 😉
Even if you say that it doesn't change how there hasn't been much of any developer updates here on itchio. I had hoped we'd see an update in the fall and now Winter is rolling in and nothing. No devlogs no nothing. I'd get it if you recommended I become a patron and join the discord but publicly speaking they haven't said anything since the past update earlier this year. It builds as much anticipation as it does skepticism with the new update that hasn't arrived. I can only hope they get it out soon in 2026.
Chuckles just remember most of the devs don’t make games full time. This is a hobby for them that most of the devs barely make any profit after paying artists and buying assets or characters. Shacks my head I have actually looked into creating my own game I have written a few stories and converted them into actors script. Chuckles then I found out that the assets I would need to use such as individual houses for each different character and the city I had written and each business that my character went to would have to be created or bought down to a glass 🥃 or table. So I had to go back and rewrite around 50% of the original story to fit. After doing that I didn’t like how it came out so I’m making my own custom building some were free assets I have converted or added designs on or into it. Just one scene could take a couple weeks to create just depending on how many items in it. So a hour on game play could actually take around 6 months to a year and sometimes longer just depending on how much time the dev is able to spend on the game chuckles not counting any errors that happens in the files or glitches in the graphics. Hope this gives you a little insight on just a fraction of what a dev has to do. P.S Any new creator I would advise you to build your City/Town and have all the business and parks/Subway or other screens then write your story around that instead of trying to find assets then using poor quality ones. Be warned creating a game is similar to opening a small resale shop. Like making a company name and logo then getting the business license to protect your brand. Then creating email and other social media accounts for your company and making each web page. Set up accounts such as PayPal or other banking accounts in your new company name. It can be a pain and a money funnel more of your money going into it than coming out. Business license fees to social media fees and fees for music, character, clothing sets and many more assets you will need. Or you could go AI route as many are going now. Well good luck
I was simply making a point that they haven't done a good job with communicating their progress. Or keeping those who aren't patrons at the very least informed of how things are going. They had this next update scheduled for the fall of this year and didn't meet it. A simple preview would've sufficed to at least let us know that they're still working on the game or why there has been a delay.