Cover art by my little cousin, Cass

Big Changes

Hello everyone! This post is going to be quite short, again. I don't really wanna have a long winded intro and just want to get into what these 'Big Changes' are. But before we get into that, I want to start off by saying the game is still actively being worked on and is going smoothly overall! I'm sorry I haven't shown much new, interesting stuff pretty much since last year. A lot of the work I've been doing is mostly back-end stuff, technical improvements, and optimizations. Things that shrimply aren't that interesting to talk about.

Anyways, what's changing?

Going Solo

IIn the Spring of 2024 I had asked @graeme of 2 Left Thumbs if he would be interested in working with me to help publish Gappy's Adventure. Now, Almost 2 years later after he had decided to take Gappy under his wing, I have made the decision to step away from the 2 Left Thumbs publishing label and have decided to continue development solo.

This decision was made almost entirely for personal reasons, mostly boiling down to me just wanting to be in total control of Gappy, and it's continued development. Warts and all.

Now of course, people will immediately jump to the idea that there was some falling out or huge drama behind the scenes. There wasn't, the split was civil and done respectfully on both sides. I genuinely do wish Graeme and all future 2 Left Thumb projects the best! And I don't think he'd mind me repeating that he wishes Gappy and myself the best going forward! And I give my deepest thank you to Graeme for the help he's given me up to this point, and for even giving me a shot at something like this in the first place! I am forever grateful <3

With that being said, expect a extremely small update to the current browser demos coming soon, to remove the 2LT logo from the boot-screen, just to clear up any confusion for people just discovering the game. And one other small change...

Current Roadmap / Next Demo

Some of you more observant readers may be wondering where the public playtest that was promised today is at?

I am sad to inform you that the public playtest has been cancelled, and has no plans to return in anyway.

This may come to a shock to many of you, and I am sorry for those who were waiting to get there chance to try the game out. The honest truth, is that I just wasn't happy with the state of the game to show it off publicly, and I'd like work on the game in it's current state just a little longer and have the game's presentation be more "playful"

Less "The game is still being worked on, tell me what you think" and more "This is just a taste of what the game will be like, tell me what you think" if that makes sense.

With that in mind, the current demo's version number will be changed from 'V 1.2' to 'V 0.5' in conjunction with the 2LT change mentioned earlier. This is a very minor change, but it's something I think is important to convey to players just stumbling upon the demos now. And for those who are in the know, the game has improved drastically since that first demo launched. I'd like to give the honor or '1.0' to something that I believe deserves the respect B^J

So. If there isn't going to be a playtest, than what CAN we expect? Here's what I have mapped out!

• NEW TRAILER / A new trailer will drop that doubles as an updated version of the current trailer on steam, and will reveal the games release date

• NEW DEMO / A new demo will replace the current demo found both on here and on itchio, and will include 8 levels instead of the current demos 4. Along with all changes made sense that original demo's release! This will also be released during a STEAM NEXT FEST event (I won't spoil which one, you'll have to wait and see!)

• ONLINE EVENTS! / Online events are planned before the release of the game thus far, more might be planned later but for now you can expect at least 2! One Well-before release, and one leading up to release day!

I won't reveal when the last two "things" will occur, but you can expect the new trailer to drop this summer! So stay tuned! Realistically, It will probably release in tandem with one of these updates :-)

ARTIST CORNER : My Little Cousin Cass

My little cousin, legal name Cass Newwert Johana, begged to do art for Gappy Bi-Monthly.

I honestly don't know if he's related to me or not, he says he knows someone on my mom's side who sounds kinda familiar? He's been blowing up my whole family's phones and emails trying to reach out to me so I assume he has to know someone right? I don't know.

Anyways, here is his rendition of a hypothetical movie poster for 'Gappy : The movie' which he illustrated on a napkin.

He's just about to graduate 8th grade, so keep him in your prayers.

Closing Remarks

See, Told ya this would be short.

I'm sorry these last two updates have been pretty unremarkable. I double-pinky promise I will show off cool new things! They are coming! Please be nice to me!

I'd also like to close this by saying on last time, thank you Graeme for all you've done for Gappy. And I appreciate you being so understanding of my decision. Best of luck to you!

And to you, the reader, thank you!

God speed.

- Levi Ramirez