This is a very important moment for us—the completion of Phase 1 of development—and since we rely heavily on Itch’s algorithms, we want to get everything right: version 0.8.9 will be released after version 0.9.9. Initially, we planned to release version 0.8.7 to the public this spring, but numerous comments about the high difficulty level forced us to change our plan and release 0.8.9 instead, in which we added a difficulty mode selection and fixed some issues.
The public release of 0.8.9 is intended to support the launch of the major version 0.9.9, which is possibly the most important version of Phase 1 of development to date.