December 25th, 2020 Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone. The Fall 2020 academic semester is over, and most of us have got a nice break from school and/or work right now. Enjoy this new background preview. Progress has been slowly but surely creeping forward. However, I have come to realize there are some things that should have been clarified much sooner, and that is solely the fault of my own. And it's because of that lack of clarity that things are quickly becoming a textbook case of the inexperienced developer, despite my best efforts to avoid so. Hopefully, this will change the course of that. There is no concrete release date for Aspiring Light, but rather general timeframes being set for it. The reason is simply that life can't be predicted for both myself and the others I have been working with, and that there are many things that may get in the way. The initial "release date" goal was all the way back in May 2020, and you can likely guess how close the actual release date will be to this. The game's store page was put up at a very early point when the game had little development and artwork done, in order to maximize visibility. However, this for some reason translated into meaning a concrete release date had to be set, even if it was delusionally unobtainable. And while technically, release dates are set by the developer and can be changed any time, it doesn't exactly look good pushing it back multiple times. A release date should have been announced with the game mostly finished instead, and clear expectations should have been made. As aforementioned, the new goal is for Q1-Q2 2021. And while I will be striving for this to become reality, I cannot guarantee it. But what I can guarantee is that Aspiring Light will come out, but developed at a work rate that allows for other life's duties to be managed for everyone involved. See you all in the new year. -JY_2000