Hi everyone.

Thanks so much for playing my little game, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

I am sorry for having been silent for so long, but with a life as a software developer during daytime, it can sometimes take some strength to get going.

Penguin with a Pumpgun is not dead, but there are some changes to what I have been informing and I want to elaborate on those.

The updated Penguin with a Pumpgun, that I have been working on is currently postponed a bit.

The same game, won\'t appear in this game\'s repository (Penguin with a Pumpgun/pwp2023), since I realized that I risk ending up killing the old game if I replace it here. I am hugely for game preservation and if I put it visibly away I am afraid it will die. For that reason the next release of Penguin with a Pumpgun will be a separate release and it\'s current state is probably not the final state.

Not releasing it for free is a change, but I will do what I can to make up for it some way.

This means that the Steam version of Penguin with a Pumpgun is in it\'s finished state. Patches can come (I\'ll take all the feedback I can get), but the game won\'t change enormously from here.

What WILL happen to the current game on Steam:

• Engine update from a very penguin-with-a-pumpgun-2023-tied engine to PEngine 2025, which I am working heavily on at the moment.

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• PEngine2025: will bring optimizations, so even though it\'s not a terribly hard game to run it should run better on lower hardware than estimated as minimum already.

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• PEngine2025: Improved input management with support for all major gaming platform controllers (PS3, PS4, PS5, XBox360, XBoxOne, Nintendo Joycon-pairs, Switch Pro controller and SteamDeck).

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• PEngine2025: Big change in asset management for better memory handling.

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• PEngine2025: Multi-camera support... I have plenty of use of this in mind. The current prototype is to play the game in stereoscopic 2D.

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• PEngine2025: Lots of under-the-hood-improvements

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• PEngine2025: Solves some issues with multi-screen setups. These changes have been patched into 2023 though.

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This update will help me in my work on the sequel (pwp2025 currently) by slowly reiterating over the engine while finishing pwp2023, that means I will have even more cool tools available to make the next game.

The current date for the PEngine update is, with a possibility for change, somewhere mid-January 2026.

I dream of releasing the MonoGame-based engine at some point because I believe it will be a great prototype tool for 2D fanatics like me.

I have opened a Discord server where I will share work-in-progress and such. I\'d also love to get your feedback here (or there).

See you there!

https://discord.gg/9k2xsbPy88