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Kandria has finally entered beta, and the keys have been rolled out to all the Kickstarter backers of the Hunter tier and above. We've already got some good feedback in from that, and are continuing to polish the remaining areas.

The Kickstarter is finally well behind us, and we're back to working on the game full-time. Not that we ever really stopped working on it, mind you, but at least there's a bunch of distractions now well behind us. But, let's still quickly summarise all that went down, eh?

This is a short overview of the development that's gone into Kandria, the open world action RPG I've been working on in recent years.

It's finally here, the Kickstarter for Kandria is now live! Check a look: kickstarter.com/projects/shinmera/kandria

Okey, June is the month! The Steam Next Fest and the Kickstarter are both happening this month. Be sure you won't miss them!

It's been a long time since I wrote anything just for myself. There's been updates here, but they've all been either for Kandria, or of a very technical nature, to announce things to the few out there that land in the nichest of niche intersections. Thanks for reading, by the way!

Another month of polish, Kickstarter prep, more polish, and also some news on conferences! Plus, a small peek at the final boss fight. Exciting!

The steam demo's now over, and we've started polishing up the next demo. A lot left to do, but we've solidly entered the overall polishing phase of the production. As you might know, the last 10% takes 90% of the time, or something like that anyway! We also have some more news about the Kickstarter...

Another month, another update. Some important things to talk about this time. Namely, a new free demo on Steam, the Kickstarter pre-launch page being up, and our progress on the overall game!

Just a quick update about Kandria: there'll be a free demo available on Steam tomorrow, 1st of March. The demo will go live at noon GMT! It has a number of improvements from the old demos, not just limited to bug fixes. I hope you give it a look and wishlist it on Steam!

January's already done with, and there's a lot of stuff brewing behind the scenes. One of those things I can already announce now, and I'm very excited to do so!

Wow, it's already been another year! When I was thinking about writing this year roundup for Kandria, I started getting the sweats, because I realised just how many things changed and happened during it. Even now writing this I'm not sure how well of a job I'll be able to do to summarise it all without forgetting about important details. However, since you can go read all the monthly updates, I'll just take this as a good sign that we made a lot of progress!

November has been filled with horizontal slice development! Nearly all our time was spent working on new content, which is fantastic! The world is already four times as big as the demo, and there's still plenty more to go.

An event-ful month passed by for Kandria! Lots of developments in terms of conferences and networking. This, in addition to falling ill for a few days, left little time for actual dev again, though even despite everything we still have some news to share on that front as well!

A shorter monthly update for once, as this included two weeks of holidays, in which we were both morally, legally, and bound by higher powers unbeknown to us forbidden from working on Kandria. Regardless, progress was made, and news are here to be shared, so an update was written!

Big news this month: there's a new free demo release (!!), news on the Pro Helvetia grant and on Gamescom, and a lot of stuff to look at that we worked on!

A big ole update for Kandria this month!

Another month filled with a lot of different stuff! We have a lot of conferences coming up, there was a bunch to do for marketing, the game has seen a lot of visual and gameplay tweaks, and we've started doing a lot of direct playtesting. Finally, the music has also made a lot of progress and the first few tracks are now done!

There's a lot of different news to talk about this month, so strap in!

Another hectic month gone by. Getting Eternia: Pet Whisperer done and published on Steam in such a short time was no small feat. There were a few hurdles along the way as well, especially when it came to getting it ready for Steam, but overall I'm really glad we managed to get it out. Having a bona fide released title is amazing!

What a hell of a month! We got a lot done, all of it culminating in the release of the new vertical slice demo! This demo is now live, and you can check it out for free!. This slice includes an hour or more of content for you to explore, so we hope you enjoy it!

I can't believe it's been two months already since the year started. Time moves extremely quickly these days. Anyway, we have some solid progress to show, and some important announcements to make this month, so strap in!

I hope you've all started well into the new year! We're well into production now, with the vertical slice slowly taking shape. Much of the work in January has been on concept and background work, which is now done, so we are moving forward on the implementation of the new features, assets, and writing. This entry will have a lot of pictures and videos to gander at, so be warned!

Well, 2020 has certainly been a year. Given the amount of stuff that's happened, and especially the big changes in my life around Kandria, I thought it would be interesting to write up a review on the entire year. I'm not going to go month by month, but rather just give an overview on the many things that happened and how I feel about it all, so don't be surprised if I jump between things a little bit.

Kandria now has a Steam page! Please visit and wishlist! It would help us a lot to get the game promoted on Steam. As a result of the Steam page and other unexpected changes, this month was pretty hectic, too, so there's a lot to talk about.