Inspired by classics like Harvest Moon with deep social sim aspects of a Persona game. Sunnyside is the next chapter in farming sims.
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I hope your year is off to a great start!
We had lots of exciting things happen at the end of 2023, so here's a round up of all the content from the end of last year.
At the end of December we had our Winter Developer Livestream #7. If you missed it, you can catch up on it below. We took the time to go over all that had happened in 2023 as well as share some of the results from the playtests all you lovely KickStarter backers have been enjoying since last October.
We had a couple special treats for everyone in the live stream. Our incredible composer Matt Thompson, was kind enough to gift the community with a live recording session of SunnySide's Winter Theme. You can check that out below:
Rainy made a "2023 Recap Video" for the community:
Last but not least, we also got a nice gift from Kevin Espiritu over at Epic Gardening, where he officially announced the partnership between Epic Gardening and SunnySide.
2023 was a heck of a year. The highlight for us was definitely giving all of you a chance to finally take another look at SunnySide first hand, and we want to take a moment to thank everyone who has taken part in the playtests so far. We're hard at work implementing some of the feedback we've received as well as fixing up all those pesky bugs, and we're hoping we'll be able to announce another round of playtests soon. Your continued support and feedback has been invaluable, and we're going to keep working hard to make SunnySide the best game it can be!
Cheers!
-Sydney and the RainyGames Team
This means there is about 10 (ish) hours left of the current session.
We've gotten a lot of incredible feedback from all of you already, both in terms of bug reports and issues, but also quality of life and overall flow of the game. We know that a lot of you either couldn't progress through the game because of bugs or performance issues as well, and we want to thank you all for your incredible and gracious patience.
With all of that we need some time to address these reports, requests, and feedback which would allow us to run the next session of playtesting with a version of the game that is smoother, more fun, less buggy, and more optimised.
To make the process of running future Playtest sessions easier, we won't revoke your steam keys, but we will close the game branch on steam after the 16th so you won't be able to play between 16th and our next session. (which will take place in a couple weeks)
After the playtest session is over, you will receive an email with a survey attached.
PLEASE FILL THIS OUT! :)
It is super helpful and important to us to get a survey report from you all at the end of this period of playtesting. The survey results are going to help us gauge how fun and overall "good" the game is. This data will also directly impact what we change, adjust, or modify to make sure the game is hitting all the marks. We hope you enjoyed this first round of playtesting, and we can't wait to have you all in the future session!
-RainyGames
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Some important updates about the upcoming play test:
1. If you have changed your email in Backerkit in the last few days in hopes of getting your key sent to the right email address:
2. We have delayed the Play Test a couple days to Monday, October 30th.
3. On Thursday, October 26, emails will be going out with a link to sign the Merge NDA.
4. Steam Keys for the Play Test will go out Monday, October 30, 2023.
We realize some of you were really looking forward to playing over the weekend, but hopefully the extra couple days will get you an even better version of the game!
Cheers!
-RainyGames