Hello, everyone! It’s been a while! I hope all’s going well for everyone.

I thought maybe I wouldn’t be able to make it in time, but the newest story of the Dreaming World, Deep Down the Wishing Well, is now out!

I wanted to have it ready for today for one main reason: Ten years ago, on the 6th of July of 2015, I released my very first game, The Stairway. I wanted to do something to celebrate this decade of game development, and what better than making something related to my first game itself? It’s probably the most unrelated story to the other available ones so far, but if you’ve played The Stairway before, some things in it might feel familiar. It’s a very old project, but I recommend playing it before reading this story to experience it in full.

Comparing Deep Down the Wishing Well with The Stairway, I feel like I can see my progress in these last ten years. Back when I made it, a lot of things about the Dreaming World and its concept itself didn’t exist yet, but now, it has been finally linked together. Even if it takes long to come back to this plotline, it will happen eventually. The world and stories I’m making are becoming too big to contain in a single game, so consider Stories of the Dreaming World a complimentary project to anything else I make in the same setting.

With this update, the dev notes booklet has also gained more pages. It’s around 31 pages total now! I also updated some little details from the previous story, like making the map corners a bit more rounded, and fixed a couple talksprites.

It might be a while until I add the next story, but I’ve got ideas and the overall outline of how much I want to include for the rest of this project. There are bunch of scenes I haven’t been able to resist writing before going to sleep lol. My next plans include some other projects at the moment, so I’ll be focusing on those first, but I’ll come back to this when possible!

Thank you so much for supporting what I make all this time.

Even if you’re just passing by or reading this by chance, thank you for checking out my life’s work. This may just be a collection of sparse stories as it is right now, but I hope that with time, I can make it a world worth experiencing as much as I treasure it in my heart.

For now, see you next time!