Hello fellow engineers! Today is the first anniversary of the launch of Alan's Automaton Workshop. It has been truly an amazing, fulfilling, and very busy year for us. This is the developer, Alimen speaking. And I wish to thank all of you who joined us in our first year. Sorry for havent updated our news for a while, due to some of my personal reasons. But thats okay, cause were back! And were eager to share some more with you. First of all, the Trading Cards! By the moment you read this post, the Trading Cards should have been released, and you will be able to get them by playing AAW. Unique profile backgrounds and emoticons were also released to the Points Shop. Hope you enjoy them. We also adjust the backend settings of Cloud Save sync function for Linux and Steam Deck, so we hope it will work more correctly on both platforms now. However, there are still some issues on Mac that we're working on, and we'll keep the community informed as soon as we have progress on that. And for the feature which all of youre looking forward to, the sandbox mode: sandbox mode has been tested and tuned, and we're now adding some sandbox-exclusive devices, such as a full octave bell set, and random number generator, etc. Hope them could help to unleash all your creativity. The sandbox mode is expected to be online at the first week of March.
Before the sandbox mode, there will be a small update about UI improvements. The update will allow player to use full-frame / full-screen diagram panel, in order to make editing diagram more efficiently. And there will also a balancing update after the sandbox mode were released. The update will focus on Chapter III levels and the certifications, and add a new issue of Automaton Journal in library. Phew, thats about everything. Once again, thank you very, very much to everyone in the community, and see you in the workshop!