Happy New Year!! (Patreon)

I say thank you to all of you like every 0.003 seconds but I'm going to take this as an excuse to express how much my life has changed over the last two years all because of you guys.

A bit over two years ago, I was miserably trudging through a retail job having zero idea how to do the things I wanted to do. When I released Shifter Labs 1 in October of 2022, my whole world changed wildly towards something I could have never even dreamed of, getting to do this full-time for an audience who are excited to see my work.

While 2023 was full of growth and new beginnings, having worked on Shifter Labs 3 for most of that year, 2024 was full of introspectiveness. In February, a very close friend of mine came out to me as someone with Disassociative Identity Disorder, which was the first time I had ever met someone who was a part of a system, and at first it really freaked me out. I felt like my whole world was suddenly thrown upside down because, up to that point, I presumed I knew pretty much everything to do with what a personality was.But it was because of that that I turned inside myself and decided to really think about who and what I am as a person. Who my characters are and what they mean to me, and what kind of person I wanted to express myself as, as in regards to sexuality and gender.I stopped being only Chaos, and only a boy, and began presenting myself as Ruin on Discord, and also taking both masculine and feminine pronouns. Since then, it's been an incredible feeling getting to see what I am, and what kinds of old mental blocks I was having against myself.

I also went to my first furry convention ever in March, which was an absolutely incredible experience, and I hope to go again in 2025~ Hopefully I can go with my friends lol, but it'd be incredible to see potential people who might recognize my game, since I did meet a few people who said they vaguely heard of my game. That was mind-blowing lmao.

I'm still learning, of course. I'm still figuring out myself and who I want to be, and not only that, where I want to go. Since we launched Anchor Horizons, I've been really excited to jump into another large project and make it something I'm just as proud of. I'm also going to be doubling down on quality over speed. I want to put games out that don't require multiple bug fix updates, and I wanna be known as someone who puts out cool stories, with cool gameplay, paired with sexy stuff too.

Here's to say, thank you, all of you, for sweeping me off my feet to a career I never thought I would ever have. Someday I hope I can see myself on the stage of the Game Awards. Someday.

Happy 2025 to all of you! <3 <3