I had big plans for this year (2022). First of all the plan was to do some promotions for Hearthlands to see if there's still interest for the game. If there was I would consider making an update or even a DLC. This would require new assets, which isn't cheap, so I wanted to make sure this was worth the investment. Hearthlands has been quite popular, which I'm very thankful for, but I feel it was missed by many people due to a total lack of marketing (which isn't something I'm good at or really interested in). So I was planning to get into that kind of stuff this year. Another plan was to implement sound effects for Elsewhere. This is a long and tedious job, since I estimate the game needs about 600 sound effects. Every sound effect needs to be found, purchased, processed, adjusted, added to the game and tested. I wanted to finally give Elsewhere a wider release and sound effects were an absolute must. As I was in the middle of both, the bad things happened. I don't want to talk about the bad things, they've been talked about enough, just gonna say that at first they put my ability to do what I love in jeopardy and now my very freedom is in danger too. At the moment I'm still able to accept payments, but this may change overnight. As with my freedom - I just have to see what happens. The thing with promotions is simply not possible at the moment, so it has to be postponed. As staying focused and productive became difficult, a few months ago I decided to take a break from implementing countless sound effects and do something new instead. Hopefully that will be released before the end of the year. A silver lining I guess. Sound effects will hopefully be finished by the end of the year too (if of course I'm able to keep working). Though I decided not to wait until they are all done and polished, and release an intermediate update with about half of them implemented. Version 0.2.2 is available now and includes almost all mob and machine sounds plus a bunch of others (roughly half of total) as well as some fixes and improvements. More info on the website: https://elsewheregame.net I didn't do or say anything public since late February, basically hoping it all just going to end soon and I will pretend to myself that nothing happened, so I'm sorry for the silence. Nothing is dead or abandoned, just didn't work out quite as planned. This has been a wild ride. In other news, last year Hearthlands was part of the Jingle Jam by the Yogscast, who I've been a big fan of since the good old SOI days. Check out the VOD here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKbc7h518n8 A couple of months ago one of my favourite city-builder youtubers GamerZakh made a video about Hearthlands! He compares the game to the unreleased Medieval Mayor which was supposed to be the next game in the Caesar/Pharaoh/Zeus/Emperor series. Can confirm that Hearthlands was inspired by the lack of a game like that. Had to do everything myself:) Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8uKNKwPN8A I haven't watched either of the videos, since it would be too nerve racking for me, so I hope they're saying good things about the game. Let's hope it's just good news from now on. Thank you for your support! Stay safe, Sergio