Hello everyone! There haven't been updates to Environmental Station Alpha for some time now, and I wanted to explain why & what I can do about that in the future. Over a year ago I noticed that a graphical effect in the game had broken down while applying some simple bugfixes. Basically all underwater/hot areas (i.e. areas with a wavy effect) appeared completely black on my computer. Since the effect was done via a plug-in, my options seemed to be either to remove the effect entirely or re-do it from scratch. I opted for the latter but due to working on ESA 2 (and later Baba Is You) the re-do ended up being a much more demotivating task than what I expected. Long story short, the game is still unupdated because of this, but I plan to finally fix the problem and get the game to a patchable state again. I wanted to say this to explain why some bugs are still unfixed (even though I claimed to fix them). The other thing relates to some recent posts about Malwarebytes Anti-Malware reporting ESA's files as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). I noticed that the party developing MAM had reported going to be stricter with PUP detection in the future, so this issue is probably a side-effect of that. In the past the AVG anti-virus program also briefly considered games made with the same tool as ESA to be harmful. I'll contact Malwarebytes about this and hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. Sorry on both of these accounts and thank you very much for your patience! I hope ESA 2 will be able to deliver more of what you enjoyed in ESA (in case you did in fact enjoy ESA!)

Hello everyone! There haven't been updates to Environmental Station Alpha for some time now, and I wanted to explain why & what I can do about that in the future. Over a year ago I noticed that a graphical effect in the game had broken down while applying some simple bugfixes. Basically all underwater/hot areas (i.e. areas with a wavy effect) appeared completely black on my computer. Since the effect was done via a plug-in, my options seemed to be either to remove the effect entirely or re-do it from scratch. I opted for the latter but due to working on ESA 2 (and later Baba Is You) the re-do ended up being a much more demotivating task than what I expected. Long story short, the game is still unupdated because of this, but I plan to finally fix the problem and get the game to a patchable state again. I wanted to say this to explain why some bugs are still unfixed (even though I claimed to fix them). The other thing relates to some recent posts about Malwarebytes Anti-Malware reporting ESA's files as Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). I noticed that the party developing MAM had reported going to be stricter with PUP detection in the future, so this issue is probably a side-effect of that. In the past the AVG anti-virus program also briefly considered games made with the same tool as ESA to be harmful. I'll contact Malwarebytes about this and hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. Sorry on both of these accounts and thank you very much for your patience! I hope ESA 2 will be able to deliver more of what you enjoyed in ESA (in case you did in fact enjoy ESA!)