Hello everyone! And Happy New years to you all!!

**(If you don’t feel like reading all the development updates you can skip to the bottom for the raffle event information!)

We hope you all had enough time to rest and relax and if not then we’re cheering for you may your break get here soon

Our team has been slowly getting back into development, for those unaware still OUR KICKSTARTER GOT FUNDED LAST YEAR AND WE COULDN’T BE MORE GRATEFUL

With that in mind for those that have been wondering we would like to give an apology for our lack of Patreon updates for a while now, this year we plan to have a lot more updates on the platform and interact with the community there more at the end of each month.

Besides that our Kickstarter money has been slowly coming in in parts and soon we’ll have our entire budget ready to go! with that we’ll soon start preparing for the voiced names that were paid for during the campaign and we’ll slowly be preparing everything else that we will give more clean updates on as we go in more general dev logs (if ever we don’t post an update on socials there’s a high chance we’re doing it on our Discord! Besides that due to our Tumblr failing us a bit and Instagram being a bit limiting etc. Twitter/X has been our main area for updates and any other posts so keep an eye out there!)

Besides that due to the team being overloaded with work and the discord community being a bit deflated around the time of the popularity poll we also had to cancel any extra illustration and content for the community near the end of the year hence the lack of a final illustration for Andrew, Jean and Vince for the popularity contest near the end of October, we will most likely do something for them still though whenever the team has less on their shoulders to honour the contest but for now it isn’t on the top of our priority list also partially because we don’t want anyone to feel like any of the love interests are getting special treatment over others We did of course still keep the tradition of one of the love interests covering a christmas song for the end of the year which you can find on our youtube channel right here!

Soon our producer and writing team will have a meeting on overall development scheduling for the year that will then be discussed with the rest of the team, our director is still largely unavailable due to illness but the team will still do their best to be transparent and keep going! We’ll make sure your beloved boys will be home soon with all the power we have!

With all the new people here though we would like to respond to some general questions really quickly!

Will the game be available for mobile/android?

Sadly at the moment and most likely in the future we don’t really plan on releasing a mobile version of the project, after Threads of You: Beyond the Bay is complete our team is scheduling to return to two demos that we left behind for a while now so porting the game to mobile isn’t really something we had in mind

"Can I volunteer to translate the game to another language?"

At the moment same as with the past demo we don’t know how drastic any script changes or anything may end up being, so we won’t be looking into any official translations until the project is done basically

Is it alright to create my own merchandise of the cast?

In case you’re planning to sell anything then as long as it’s your own work do go ahead! If you’re making anything with the official art of the game then as long as it’s for private use it’s completely alright but we would prefer it not be sold then. And in case of any fangames or fan projects you’re basically good to go as long as you specify that it’s a fan project and link back to the original!

What are all the references in the current demo?

They’re basically just references for other visual novels and or our staff members, we asked other devs if they would like to or if it would be alright to reference them in our project for some because they are friends for others because we just really like their work, we plan to eventually make an official list of those when we have time!

Will the full game be free?

The full game will have to be purchased unless specified otherwise like in cases of backers

There’s still a lot of playtime in the free demo though so we hope you’ll give our boys a shot and visit them in Brine Bay

When is the game planned to release?

Originally we planned to release the game in 2026 (aka this year) and we are still very much hoping to do so, the only wrench in the schedule is our director not having the ability to be present so in case of any delays naturally our community will be informed as soon as we have clear information

Where do I report bugs?

Our usual system is to have the person reporting open a ticket on our discord server and write to us about the details of what happened there! It keeps things in order but you can very much also just comment on our itch page and we’re bound to see it eventually, apologies if we don’t respond on most socials we’ve been less active on a lot of them since our main update socials account did end up being Twitter/X due to the amount of people there

This is a good time to mention that yes we also know about the Kevin eye glitch and some of the other ones they’re a little haunted don’t worry about it don’t mind me covering his eyes i’m not doing that not at all (we don’t know why they do that but we’re working to fix it it’ll be fine by the time of release)

How do I get my supporter/backer role on Discord?

You basically just have to open a ticket and send up proof of backing!

Is the project based in Malaysia?

Our director (and studio founder and main person there basically) is based in Malaysia but the rest of the studio team and Threads of You team is from all sort of places in Asia, Europe, America and whatnot! You can find the studio teams introductions somewhere on our socials from some time around the end of 2024!

For any other questions you can feel free to ask in our discord server! We can also respond in a future dev log naturally

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With all of the general updates in mind while the team is sorting themselves out after the new year and after organizing themselves during the directors leave we have a little event prepared!

An OC creation event!

Create an OC and enter the raffle for a chance to win art from our studio teams lead artist!

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