Close Your Eyes [Old Version] news & patch notes

After the new content update released earlier today, including a new 9th ending, Girl's Graveyard being added to the main game without the need for the Goodie Bag DLC, that DLC getting more concept materials & old versions of the games, WASD movement, etc., had a few minor bugs I wanted to fix along the Rot ending path. I've fixed them now! I expect one more bug patch to fix anything else that may pop up, and then I think Close Your Eyes will be fully completed. Full focus and steam ahead to go to the remake. Hope you guys enjoy the update for the 10-year Yai Gameworks Anniversary, as I'm adding new content updates for all of my games.

Close Your Eyes has now been updated to Version 1.3 for the Yai Gameworks 10-year anniversary celebration! The update includes the following: -Brand new 9th ending added to Close Your Eyes! -Girl's Graveyard made part of the main game (no Goodie Bag DLC required)! The entrance to Girl's Graveyard was moved to near the cassette room. -WASD controls added (also can use E, F, & Shift to confirm, Q, R, Control to Deny). -Can now speed up the credits a little bit. -Achievements for the new ending & Girl's Graveyard ending now unlockable. -Store Page updated. -Goodie Bag DLC's price has been lowered from $1.99 USD to $0.99 USD. 13 new concept art sketches added, 4 new official art pieces added, 52 new "alternate" art stills added. -Goodie Bag DLC also now includes the original Ludum Dare 29 version of Close Your Eyes, the original Redux version of Close Your Eyes, the Beta Test version of Close Your Eyes Redux Final Expansion, the original 2013 version of Girl's Graveyard, the 2014 Girl's Graveyard Redux version, and the January 2018 version of Close Your Eyes Remake (Version 0.01). I hope y'all enjoy! This is part of the Yai Gameworks 10-year anniversary celebration, which is over the span of 477 days (up to August 31st, 2026), releasing free new content updates for all of my Steam games. Can ready more on that here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/377330?emclan=103582791438750063&emgid=514083545905365063

Hey! Did you know we're approaching Yai Gameworks 10-year anniversary? Well, now you do! I've technically been making games since 2013, starting with Blank Slate, but "Yai Gameworks" was made officially in 2015 as part of becoming a Steam developer to release Close Your Eyes: Redux on Steam. So I have some surprises for y'all! I'm doing a HUGE 10-year celebration. What does that entail? I'm going to update every single game I've released on Steam. This will start in a few days from now, but the updates will roll out through the next 477 days (until August 31st, 2026). I will not reveal everything I'm adding to these games here, just the core new additions. I will give no ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) on any of these, just know that I'll post an update on each game's store page when each one is out (or of course, keep the game installed to be notified when the game updates). All of these updates will be FREE to owners of the games (and free updates to the already free games). Here's the full list of what I'll be doing (along with store links to each one): Close Your Eyes : https://store.steampowered.com/app/377330/Close_Your_Eyes_Old_Version/ Adding a new 9th ending, as well as updating the tech side of the game to play a bit nicer with newer PCs. Take the Dream IX: https://store.steampowered.com/app/428870/Take_the_Dream_IX/ Getting a new ending added, achievements, and updated tech to play nicer with newer PCs. Red Haze: https://store.steampowered.com/app/428860/Red_Haze/ Final update with Ending A, the A-Z Door, new secrets and random events added. The game will finally be complete! Close Me: https://store.steampowered.com/app/671980/Close_Me/ I'm going to delist the "New Game+" DLC and make it part of the main game (+OST), add new random events, get a new ending, previous owners of the DLC will get a new costume as thanks for supporting. Twisted Puzzle DLC for Close Your Eyes : https://store.steampowered.com/app/645840/Close_Your_Eyes__The_Twisted_Puzzle/ Will get a new second launch option w/remixed puzzles and extended Ending A, from CYE Remake ported over, to preserve it before a huge reimagining in CYER. Please Love My Computer Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/796910/Please_Love_My_Computer_Game/ Getting a new .exe file added to its files... Found Horror Game 11.exe: https://store.steampowered.com/app/727720/Found_Horror_Game_11exe/ Getting Steam Trading Cards, Game 1 "Attendant" and Game 6 "Ominous Whisperer" are both getting huge updates, Game 8 "In Pale Moon I Saw Her Smile" will be released. Close Your Eyes Remake: https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes/ Big update coming to the game adding a lot to "Close Your Eyes", "Girl's Graveyard", "My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt: Director's Cut", and "Girls Graveyard Mystery", alongside a new Demo for the game released. Feast Your Eyes: https://store.steampowered.com/app/712260/Feast_Your_Eyes/ A HUGE overhaul of Acts 1 & 2 (like, actually a big overhaul that'll add a lot of new content, rework previous areas), and going to release Act 3 so the game finally finished! Red Haze: Bruises Glimmer in Starlight DLC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553270/Red_Haze__Bruises_Glimmer_in_Starlight/ Gonna' try to fix a few things from the base game, and add a brand new second chapter! Decaying Delicacy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488540/Decaying_Delicacy/ A HUGE overhaul and update to make the game a Director's Cut version of itself; adds a LOT of new and reworked content into the game. Price of the game when the update hits will raise by $1 USD, and will finally release the OST of the game as well. Also Steam Achievements. This overhaul is actually huge as I think the game deserves to be so much more than it was. The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl: https://store.steampowered.com/app/667270/The_Miserable_Crimson_Hooded_Girl/ Adds a new mini-campaign you can play after you've beaten the game once, also Steam achievements added. --- There we go. Again, NO ETA for these and will just randomly drop them (with an update to the store pages when they drop) over the next 477 days (to August 31st, 2026), but the first one of these updates happens this week. I hope y'all enjoy~!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/712260/Feast_Your_Eyes/ Feast Your Eyes is now out on Steam! Act 1 is releasing now, with Act 2 releasing on August 21st as a free update for the game. It's a semi-sequel, spin-off, prequel & remake of Close Your Eyes. I hope you guys enjoy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251690/My_Hole_is_a_Mouth_of_Dirt/ "My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt" is now available on Steam for free! Up next, I'm going to finish up and release "Feast Your Eyes: Little Marshmallow"! Hope you guys look forward to it!

Yai Gameworks will be holding an Isolated Indoors sale from March 17th-31st. All of my little games will be at their steepest discounts to date for those staying at home from the Coronavirus. Yai Gameworks Complete Bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/4193/Yai_Gameworks_Complete_Bundle/ I also will be releasing a new game on March 30th, "My Hole is a Mouth of Dirt". A lonely cloaked being called Mole services instructions from what he believes is the voice of God. As he wanders a desolate, otherwordly underground his faith is tested as he must deliver a baby. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1251690/My_Hole_is_a_Mouth_of_Dirt/

The Yai Gameworks 2020 Questionnaire Survey Form: https://forms.gle/aAHSNATPVih4uDcK7 Out of all the annual Questionnaire forms I've done, this 2020 one is the most important one so far. During 2020 and leading into early 2021, I have a sorta' time limit to get to a certain financial point in order to pursue game development full time. So I'm going to be trying my damndest during the next 15 months or so to get games out there and to increase my audience size, otherwise making games becomes a thing I do in my spare time (not the worst thing in the world, but it would limit what I can do of course). I've been crunching a lot of numbers, working hard this last year and processing possibilities to make this questionnaire form, but there's a lot of questions I want to get some feedback for from people who already are into my games. This form will take 15-40 minutes, I ask you please read the text and descriptions I post rather than just looking at the WIP pictures as I will be taking this feedback seriously. I thank you for your time all the same, it does mean a lot to me.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/833020/Dusk_Golems_Anthology_of_Horror/ I have a lot going on the hood and trying to get better how I handle announcements and releases, but I can confidently say (unless the game gets held up in Steam's review process) I'll be releasing Dusk Golem's Anthology of Horror on October 30th for $5.99 USD. It is a collection of three playable short horror stories, "Girl's Graveyard Mystery," "I Haunt this Place" and "Wail of Despair. More info on all three of these games' on the game's store page description. You're going to see more frequent releases from me over the next 10 months. I have been working really hard, but also I have a time limit now in either do or die if I can fully rely on this due to some unfortunate circumstances involving my family being in need and myself needing to be able to provide for myself and others. I'm going to put my all into these next 10 months, and try to complete many partial projects and get them out there (and trust me, I have many). These three games were originally planned to be separate releases, but as they're all shorter and had a core theme between the three of them I just thought it made sense to release them together, plus I love anthologies. I'll try to keep you guys posted, but the best ways to keep up with Yai Gameworks news is to either join the official Discord or to follow me on Twitter. I'll link both below. I hope you guys are having a wonderful Halloween October Month, if you haven't already you can check out a Red Haze Halloween Update currently going on through the month over on the Red Haze page, the Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake- update got delayed some again and I apologize for this but some financial burden stuff came up (CYE-AR- is probably my worst performing game right now, but I promise I'll finish it, it does mean something to me), and I also can confirm there will be a small Red Haze update once the Halloween Event is over. Outside of this I'm gunning to release something or another in November (but not clear which project I'll choose yet), and The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl will release on December 13th this year. Blossoming Yandere will be delayed until early next year. https://discord.gg/yaigameworks https://twitter.com/YaiGameworks

https://store.steampowered.com/app/667270/The_Miserable_Crimson_Hooded_Girl/ The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl Steam Store Page is now properly up. Those who follow me on YouTube or are part of the official Yai Gameworks Discord may have seen me working some on this and talking about it during the last few weeks. This was previously the Close Your Eyes Intermission/2: Glass Vedalia page, but I decided to give it it's own page later as it's not a focus right now and probably won't be for a while. Those who beat The Twisted Puzzle and got one of the keys at the end of that will own this game on release automatically for partaking in that. Notifying in case you're wondering why you already have this game wishlisted/already own it. Sans any major tragedies in my life or Valve making the review process take too long, I'm gunning for that August 20th release date. The game will cost $2.99 USD, I'll post more details about the game in the upcoming week on the Yai Gameworks Discord and Twitter, which you can find links for both below: https://discord.gg/yaigameworks https://twitter.com/YaiGameworks

https://goo.gl/forms/3Q4MfT4vLaNSiUjx2 I very much appreciate if people fill out this Google Doc form, it will be running from February 13th to the 18th and involves a number of questions who's answers I'll be collecting for data for the future. Red Haze will be receiving a small update on February 28th, and several other smaller updates at the last day of every month up until the Big Content Update hits. Blossoming Yandere will release in March or April of this year: https://store.steampowered.com/app/660800/Blossoming_Yandere/ More news, info and questions within the form. Thank you for your time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes_Anniversary_Remake/ Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake- is now out in Steam Early Access for $4.99 USD with a 10% launch discount (this will be the cheapest the game will be in at the very least the next two years, the game will gradually raise in price as more is added to the game). At Early Access launch, I am actively seeking back feedback and going to work closely with the community to shape up the game. At Early Access launch, the full 'Girl's Graveyard' remake is included, with 1-2 hours of gameplay. The 'Close Your Eyes' remake first hour or so is playable, up until the Judith Manor section of the game. 'Close Your Eyes - The Twisted Puzzle' is included, unlocked after 10 achievements in-game are completed, and has a few puzzle solution changes, a few new hidden things, and should give people a varying amount of gameplay time (depending how good they are at the puzzles). I hope you guys enjoy, up until the Close Your Eyes Remake is completed, there will be fairly regular updates. You can play up to the current cut-off point and load your save file when new updates hit to continue where you left off. I look forward to communicating with everyone over the course of development, and hope you all enjoy the game!

A little bit of an update, this is not 100% yet, but it's looking mighty likely and I want to let you guys know ahead of time. It's looking like Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake- will release in Early Access on December 11th, it will cost $4.99 USD and have a 10% off launch discount. It also will be on sale for 10% off during the Winter Sale, but I highly recommend if planning to pick it up to pick it up during these sales. I'll be releasing a big update and up'ing the price to $5.99 in late January/early February, and then throughout 2019 as some big updates hit, I'll gradually raise the price more and more until the final price, which is planned to be $8.99 USD. The price it'll be during December at 10% off $4.99 USD is literally the cheapest the game is going to be for at least the next three years, so heads-up on that one. Want to make early adopters be benefited rather than people who wait for a sale. Anyways, the Early Access release on it's initial release on December 11th will include the complete remake of Girl's Graveyard in it, playable from start to finish. The remake features new areas, new scenes, a new ending, but is not as drastic of a remake as the CYE one and should take someone probably around 1-2 hours to complete (depending on several factors). It'll include Close Your Eyes: The Twisted Puzzle, which is more of a port of the DLC than it is a remake, but an enhanced port which includes some new things with its endings, a few new secrets, and a new areas, plus some altered puzzle solutions. The Close Your Eyes remake on Early Access release is not fully playable yet, it'll be playable up until the "Pancake" scene from the original Close Your Eyes, but the path to get to that pancake scene is longer with new areas, story, reimagined areas, and more up until that point. I will also be working with the community, asking questions, collecting feedback to help direct the remake going forward,I plan to be very active and vocal about CYE-AR-. Just thought I'd let you guys know ahead of time on all of this, if the date changes, I'll let you know.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes_Anniversary_Remake/ Hope everyone has a happy Halloween! Released a 20 minute demo of the Close Your Eyes side of the CYE Anniversary Remake demo on Steam, full game releasing in Early Access (with the full remakes of CYE and Girl's Graveyard on EA release) on November 26th for $4.99 USD (with launch discount). Also a reminder the Red Haze Halloween Event to play an exclusive area and earn Halloween costumes ends on November 5th. Everyone take care, and Happy Halloween~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes_Anniversary_Remake/ I'm trying to schedule out some stuff right now after some unexpected life bumps like the passing of my best friend and a family situation, and not announcing anything else yet as it's not ready enough to put an exact date on (Game 3 of FHG11.exe, Red Haze update, Arctic Haze, etc.), but there's something I can put a date on right now. Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake- will be releasing on Steam on November 26th in Early Access for $4.99 USD (with a 5% launch discount and a further 5% off with the Yai Gameworks Complete Bundle). The Early Access form will on release include: -The complete remake of Close Your Eyes, with brand new areas, scenes, characters, reimagined segments, and more surprises with a total of 10 endings to obtain. -The complete remake of Girl's Graveyard, the precursor to CYE which also features some new scenes, story beats, and details. -The Twisted Puzzle expansion, it's identical to the DLC from the original game with one addition I won't spoil, but it is included on launch. The game is gunning to release out of Early Access on April 29th, 2019, though more modes will be added over time, I'll be taking player feedback and asking direct questions to Early Access players for development, and the price will increase a couple times before release as more is added. What will be added in the coming months, with an update every month or two, is the "Close Your Eyes: Anniversary Mode", "Girl's Graveyard Hard Mode", the brand new scenario, "Close Your Eyes - Beneath the Surface", two miniature side modes in "Close Your Eyes: Hushed Hour" and "Close Your Eyes: A Ghastly Tale", and a fully explorable hub area between game modes known as The Annex. I can 100% guarantee unless my house gets destroyed by fire or something, it'll be releasing on November 26th. Hope to surprise you guys with it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/727720/Found_Horror_Game_11exe/ It just released for $3.99 USD (with a 5% off discount on release, and an additional 5% off if you buy it off of the Yai Gameworks Complete Bundles). It's an episodic game of sorts using community involvement, Game 2 will unlock when players find the Red Circle, Blue Triangle, and Yellow Square in Game 1, but the earliest Game 2 will release will be next Monday, as one of my closest friends committed suicide on Monday, and dealing with some grief and doing some things this weekend as a result. I hope you guys enjoy Found Horror Game 11.exe, it's first game available, the upcoming 10 games, and the whole experience.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/11443099/87382f1f1604bb52b4fa97076bf64a0930ec6211.png I've released a 320-song Album for music from all of my games over the last 5-years. The full album of 320 songs is available there in the link above if you click it, music from my last 5 years of game making. Can listen to it freely, though I do highly appreciate support if you decide to buy the whole album for $8 USD (or can buy individual songs for $0.50 USD). This album is a collection of the entire original soundtrack for the games I released during my first five years of making games (between 2013 - 2018). It includes the original and able-to-distribute music for Blank Slate (original Ludum Dare version), Girl's Graveyard, Close Your Eyes , Take the Dream IX, Red Haze, Cootie Patootie , Close Me, Please Love My Computer Game, Found Horror Game 11.exe, and Dusk Golem's Red Haze of Horror 3D, as well as some scrapped songs. This does not include outside tracks as that would've needed me to re-license everything again, and decided to keep this to the original songs by myself (and a few by friends I have been given complete permission for free reign over). All come in .mp3 format. I hope to keep surprising with all that I do. The money earned from this is going right back into future projects.

I have been working so hard to be able to pull this off, but finally I think I can fully announce the line-up of games that Yai Gameworks will be releasing between the end of July and the end of November 2018. I have been working really hard since the year began, juggling a lot of projects, and there's still more to finish and juggle after this, but finally far enough along to announce this properly. Here's what Yai Gameworks will be releasing over the next few months: --- https://store.steampowered.com/app/727720/Found_Horror_Game_11exe/ "Found Horror Game 11.exe" will be releasing between July 27th to August 6th for $3.99 USD. Follow the story of Ina, a gas station attendant, in an episodic horror game where the community must work a bit together to unlock the next sequence of the game. --- https://store.steampowered.com/app/680300/PeeTee_Babybuu/ "PeeTee Babybuu" will release between August 27th and September 4th for $2.99 USD (with the Soundtrack and Art collection available for an additional $1.99 via DLC). --- https://store.steampowered.com/app/428860/Red_Haze/ "Red Haze" will have it's big content update between September 28th to October 12th as a free update to the game (but shortly the price of Red Haze will go up to $2.99 USD). The Store Page is not live yet, but at this time there will also release a new spin-off Red Haze game known as, "Dusk Golem's Red Haze of Horror 3D", which will cost $2.99 USD as well, though those that posted in the Red Haze Steam topic before this announcement was posted and followed the instructions will get a key for the game early. --- There is not a Steam Page for it yet, but between September to October Rincs and I will be releasing a short horror game we both made involving a bag store. More details to come, this one is working on a strict time table and will be releasing not too long after the store page goes up. --- There is no Store Page yet, but in releasing on October 30th, 2018 for free will be "Horror Game Anthology", a horror game anthology with short horror games made by different indie horror game developers. I'm holding and compiling the anthology, and it won't be releasing under Yai Gameworks collection due to being an effort of several indie horror game devs I just so happen to be hosting, but I will post the Store Page when that goes live. --- https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes_Anniversary_Remake/ Between November 26th - December 3rd, we'll be releasing in, Early Access "Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake-" for $4.99 USD. The Early Access Remake on release will include the full remake for Close Your Eyes, the full remake for Girl's Graveyard, it will include Close Your Eyes: The Twisted Puzzle, and it will include a new scenario known as, "Close Your Eyes: Hushed Hour". The remakes include a lot of new content and various scenes upgraded to be better than ever. --- Beyond that is an enigma for now. As long as I don't have serious health or livelihood issues or anything of the like, this WILL be concrete. I had chosen from past mishaps and bad judgement to hold off revealing these dates until they were near certain, other projects are not certain right now so will see them down the line. I hope you guys enjoy the sorta' rapid 1-month apart releases I'll be doing over the next few months!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgOXbvCUYAEegMh.jpg Yai Gameworks Steam Developer Page is now live! You can follow the page to receive notifications when we release new games, plus is the new developer page for us on Steam so shows a lot of what we're up to actively (which frankly, is a lot. Despite delays, things are coming along nicely). Today also marks the beginning of the 2018 Steam Summer Sale! All of Yai Gameworks' catalog of games will be on sale. Most notably, Red Haze will be the cheapest price it'll be for years, once the Summer Sale is up I'm updating the price from $1.99 USD to $2.99 USD for the upcoming big content patch update, if you guys don't own Red Haze but want it now will be the best time to purchase it. Close Me, Close Me's extended New Game+ campaign & soundtrack DLC, and Close Your Eyes' Girl's Graveyard and soundtrack DLC all will be on sale as well. If you own Red Haze before July 8th, make sure to read and follow the instructions here to get a secret surprise in a month or two: https://steamcommunity.com/games/428860/announcements/detail/1664523682560878190 I hope you guys are having a wonderful summer! Will be releasing a few things within the next few months I hope to surprise you all with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/680300/PeeTee_Babybuu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKNKOCGKHw https://store.steampowered.com/app/706710/Close_Your_Eyes_Anniversary_Remake/ The game will be releasing in Early Access (but including the full remakes of Close Your Eyes and Girl's Graveyard on release with more game modes added over time) on August 31st, 2018 for $4.99 USD. There's many more surprises in this remake than what I show as well... Hope you guys enjoy it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/712260/Feast_Your_Eyes_Little_Marshmallow/ A slow-burn quiet surreal horror game that's a semi-sequel and spin-off of Close Your Eyes, which combines the previously announced "Close Your Eyes: Intermission" and "The Crack I Found That Taketh" into one singular game, mixing together fixed camera angles and 2.5D gameplay. There will be a lot more on this game in the days and weeks to come. It's releasing on May 21st 100% for $3.99 USD, with the soundtrack releasing on the same day for $0.99 (preview on the store page for the soundtrack for the music): http://store.steampowered.com/app/712270/Feast_Your_Eyes_Little_Marshmallow__Official_Soundtrack__Other_Goodies/ Hope this quiet little horror game will surprise you guys.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/700290/Close_Me__New_Game__OST_Selection_Soundtrack/ The DLC includes a small little expansion to the main game that should add 30-120 minutes to your second playthrough (New Game+ stuff only appear once you've completed the main game once), as well as the Soundtrack for Close Me. It comes together in one package for $0.99, with a 5% discount on launch (and a 10% discount if bought through the Yai Gameworks Complete Bundle). I hope you all enjoy~

http://store.steampowered.com/app/700290/Close_Me__New_Game__OST_Selection_Soundtrack/ The DLC includes a small little expansion to the main game that should add 30-120 minutes to your second playthrough (New Game+ stuff only appear once you've completed the main game once), as well as the Soundtrack for Close Me. It comes together in one package for $0.99, with a 5% discount on launch (and a 10% discount if bought through the Yai Gameworks Complete Bundle). I hope you all enjoy~

I thank you all who participated in the Yai Gameworks 2018 Questionnaire survey a couple months back. As many are probably aware of I am a man of many ideas, and indeed probably too many. I release 2-3 games a year but dates get pushed back, some are left idling for months to years before they eventually release. I won’t promise this won’t change, but as a solid effort applying some strategies I’ve learned within the last few months and a plight to achieve one of my dream games, Complete Isolation, I will explain a crazy thing I’m about to try and apply myself to do, then the reasoning, and finally the specifics. Between February of 2018 to April of 2019 I want to release 12 video games onto Steam. Now there’s a few reasons I have chosen to attempt this honestly foolish errand, especially foolish for me. I originally had set my sights to work on a dream project I’ve had in my head for many years, my first actual big project titled, “Complete Isolation.” I held a funding campaign for this game back in 2013 on Indiegogo, who’s funding has been used for all my projects to produce the music you all hear in my games. Still, here we are five years later and CI still does not exist. I want to make it, I desperately do, and I originally had planned to commit myself to it this year. That was until all my analysis, self-reflection, crunching, talking with others, and reason pointed me to pursuing another goal first, to do something else foolish first so that CI would be a less foolish endeavor and a safer bet. You see, Complete Isolation is planned as an episodic gameplay experience. Episodic releases work best on a timed release manner; being timely with episodes is important. That means having a good groundwork you can easily build off of, self-discipline, a solid plan and commitment, and short development cycles. These are all things I need to master, and trying to wrangle that first-hand on an episodic game would be setting many up for disappointment of delays when I inevitability failed to deliver on time. I need to practice this first, but in a form that isn’t both as anti-consumer and as financially risky as a longer term episodic game. Climb a hill before a mountain kinda’ thing. Add to this CI needs to look the part, it has a bigger investment, bigger cost, and as I’d be tackling a large chunk of the game myself from coding to design to music and writing and voice directing I’d need someone to do the art, a pretty sizable amount of drawn art and sprite work as well. But the needed art amount is hefty, and I’m not in a financial position to offer a decent payment upfront. Rincs, my partner in crime on projects who’s done the drawn art on my projects, hasn’t seen a cent from Yai Gameworks sales and I feel awful about it. I need her for a longer term but don’t want to run her ragged, and need to pay her properly for her work. I should save up and split profits, but even that is a huge uncertainty. I need to secure more income, and allow her more time to do art for the project between her busy life. Add to all of this having Yai Gameworks name out there and more experience under our belt can only be a good thing. I decided to propose a challenge to myself, a series of experimental games on a planned and tight schedule. This is a way to work myself to a position where I can hopefully form the experience and conviction needed to do an episodic structure, all while getting more games and experiences under my belt. All while hopefully earning some money and making some more things available to all of you guys I hope that y’all enjoy. It may even work out to be a good way to market it as the steps up to try and achieve Complete Isolation. There’s more to all of this. But I plan to in the upcoming week make a video detailing it all a little further. This plan isn’t just to make more games however, it’s to make an over-a-year plan and stick to it. The first game of this challenge is already released, it can be found as Please Love My Computer Game on Steam. However, I will now detail the rest of the plan to you all. I cannot guarantee I will be able to meet and achieve what I hope to, but I can tell you I’m going to be working hard to achieve my own dreams which I view this as a crucial step towards. So if things pan out, what can you all expect? APRIL 2018: -”The Crack I Found That Taketh” A nearly dialogue-less 3D exploration and discovery experimental game about a crack in the floor. MAY 2018: -”Red Haze” big content update The big content update for Red Haze hits, including all endings, new areas, new story, new secrets, lag fixes, more scene skips, and more. JUNE 2018: -”Unlabeled” An 8-bit game inspired by Hellnight and Nanashi no Game about an NPC in a small RPG village that one day gains sentience, and begins to be stalked by an ever-evolving monstrosity. Partner up with other people in the village that can permanently die at anytime, leading you down different storyline paths. JULY 2018 -”Hellscape” You are a Demigod on a dying world abandoned by the True Gods. Walk among men and explore the hellscape left behind,meeting devotees, non-believers, deformed and withering beings who may love or hate you. You may guide them to nurish a future, or trample them into oblivion. What gift may you give a disgusting world with no hope? AUGUST 2018 -”The Killing Kink Nunster” A B-Horror Comedy game about a group of college kids who all are a bit messed up and kinky getting trapped in a cathedral with the monstrous nun known as the Killing Kink Nunster, who wishes to eradicate their sin and pay their dues with their blood. It’s a lot weirder and even more twisted than you think. -”Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake” A remake of Close Your Eyes with new content, a new scenario, a remake of Girl’s Graveyard, new modes, a new open world connecting world, and a lot of surprises to prep for the eventual sequel. SEPTEMBER 2018: -”Cootie Patootie” A reimagining of a previous game I made for Ludum Dare. Join Cootie Patrootie as she goes on a magical journey of self-discovery to find love! OCTOBER 2018 -”RODE: Remorse Observation Dream Emulation” For the 20th anniversary of the cult gem, LSD: Dream Emulator, have this 3D first-person love letter to it. NOVEMBER 2018: -”Box Pusher” A nice relaxing little puzzle game about pushing boxes. It might seem a little off, but that’s probably nothing. JANUARY 2019: -”The Seafaring Incident” You’re on a seven day cruise in the Pacific, but something is very wrong. Over the course of 7 days you’ll need to investigate these mysterious circumstances and work out how to keep your head above water. FEBRUARY 2019: -”The Silhouette of the Alluring Rose” A more normalized RPG Maker-esque dark fantasy puzzle horror starring a frilly girl… IN 3D! April 2019: -”(untitled at this time)” An experimental little MMO experience in a Yume Nikki-esque exploration game. Regardless, this will be a busy year, and I hope to surprise you all throughout the year. The easiest way to keep up with Yai Gameworks news, socialize, little surprises, and collaborate is to join the official Yai Gameworks discord, which you may find here: https://discord.gg/EVwaARY

I thank you all who participated in the Yai Gameworks 2018 Questionnaire survey a couple months back. As many are probably aware of I am a man of many ideas, and indeed probably too many. I release 2-3 games a year but dates get pushed back, some are left idling for months to years before they eventually release. I won’t promise this won’t change, but as a solid effort applying some strategies I’ve learned within the last few months and a plight to achieve one of my dream games, Complete Isolation, I will explain a crazy thing I’m about to try and apply myself to do, then the reasoning, and finally the specifics. Between February of 2018 to April of 2019 I want to release 12 video games onto Steam. Now there’s a few reasons I have chosen to attempt this honestly foolish errand, especially foolish for me. I originally had set my sights to work on a dream project I’ve had in my head for many years, my first actual big project titled, “Complete Isolation.” I held a funding campaign for this game back in 2013 on Indiegogo, who’s funding has been used for all my projects to produce the music you all hear in my games. Still, here we are five years later and CI still does not exist. I want to make it, I desperately do, and I originally had planned to commit myself to it this year. That was until all my analysis, self-reflection, crunching, talking with others, and reason pointed me to pursuing another goal first, to do something else foolish first so that CI would be a less foolish endeavor and a safer bet. You see, Complete Isolation is planned as an episodic gameplay experience. Episodic releases work best on a timed release manner; being timely with episodes is important. That means having a good groundwork you can easily build off of, self-discipline, a solid plan and commitment, and short development cycles. These are all things I need to master, and trying to wrangle that first-hand on an episodic game would be setting many up for disappointment of delays when I inevitability failed to deliver on time. I need to practice this first, but in a form that isn’t both as anti-consumer and as financially risky as a longer term episodic game. Climb a hill before a mountain kinda’ thing. Add to this CI needs to look the part, it has a bigger investment, bigger cost, and as I’d be tackling a large chunk of the game myself from coding to design to music and writing and voice directing I’d need someone to do the art, a pretty sizable amount of drawn art and sprite work as well. But the needed art amount is hefty, and I’m not in a financial position to offer a decent payment upfront. Rincs, my partner in crime on projects who’s done the drawn art on my projects, hasn’t seen a cent from Yai Gameworks sales and I feel awful about it. I need her for a longer term but don’t want to run her ragged, and need to pay her properly for her work. I should save up and split profits, but even that is a huge uncertainty. I need to secure more income, and allow her more time to do art for the project between her busy life. Add to all of this having Yai Gameworks name out there and more experience under our belt can only be a good thing. I decided to propose a challenge to myself, a series of experimental games on a planned and tight schedule. This is a way to work myself to a position where I can hopefully form the experience and conviction needed to do an episodic structure, all while getting more games and experiences under my belt. All while hopefully earning some money and making some more things available to all of you guys I hope that y’all enjoy. It may even work out to be a good way to market it as the steps up to try and achieve Complete Isolation. There’s more to all of this. But I plan to in the upcoming week make a video detailing it all a little further. This plan isn’t just to make more games however, it’s to make an over-a-year plan and stick to it. The first game of this challenge is already released, it can be found as Please Love My Computer Game on Steam. However, I will now detail the rest of the plan to you all. I cannot guarantee I will be able to meet and achieve what I hope to, but I can tell you I’m going to be working hard to achieve my own dreams which I view this as a crucial step towards. So if things pan out, what can you all expect? APRIL 2018: -”The Crack I Found That Taketh” A nearly dialogue-less 3D exploration and discovery experimental game about a crack in the floor. MAY 2018: -”Red Haze” big content update The big content update for Red Haze hits, including all endings, new areas, new story, new secrets, lag fixes, more scene skips, and more. JUNE 2018: -”Unlabeled” An 8-bit game inspired by Hellnight and Nanashi no Game about an NPC in a small RPG village that one day gains sentience, and begins to be stalked by an ever-evolving monstrosity. Partner up with other people in the village that can permanently die at anytime, leading you down different storyline paths. JULY 2018 -”Hellscape” You are a Demigod on a dying world abandoned by the True Gods. Walk among men and explore the hellscape left behind,meeting devotees, non-believers, deformed and withering beings who may love or hate you. You may guide them to nurish a future, or trample them into oblivion. What gift may you give a disgusting world with no hope? AUGUST 2018 -”The Killing Kink Nunster” A B-Horror Comedy game about a group of college kids who all are a bit messed up and kinky getting trapped in a cathedral with the monstrous nun known as the Killing Kink Nunster, who wishes to eradicate their sin and pay their dues with their blood. It’s a lot weirder and even more twisted than you think. -”Close Your Eyes -Anniversary Remake” A remake of Close Your Eyes with new content, a new scenario, a remake of Girl’s Graveyard, new modes, a new open world connecting world, and a lot of surprises to prep for the eventual sequel. SEPTEMBER 2018: -”Cootie Patootie” A reimagining of a previous game I made for Ludum Dare. Join Cootie Patrootie as she goes on a magical journey of self-discovery to find love! OCTOBER 2018 -”RODE: Remorse Observation Dream Emulation” For the 20th anniversary of the cult gem, LSD: Dream Emulator, have this 3D first-person love letter to it. NOVEMBER 2018: -”Box Pusher” A nice relaxing little puzzle game about pushing boxes. It might seem a little off, but that’s probably nothing. JANUARY 2019: -”The Seafaring Incident” You’re on a seven day cruise in the Pacific, but something is very wrong. Over the course of 7 days you’ll need to investigate these mysterious circumstances and work out how to keep your head above water. FEBRUARY 2019: -”The Silhouette of the Alluring Rose” A more normalized RPG Maker-esque dark fantasy puzzle horror starring a frilly girl… IN 3D! April 2019: -”(untitled at this time)” An experimental little MMO experience in a Yume Nikki-esque exploration game. Regardless, this will be a busy year, and I hope to surprise you all throughout the year. The easiest way to keep up with Yai Gameworks news, socialize, little surprises, and collaborate is to join the official Yai Gameworks discord, which you may find here: https://discord.gg/EVwaARY

http://store.steampowered.com/app/796910/ I hope you guys love it, I really hope you do.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/796910/ I hope you guys love it, I really hope you do.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/796910 Please Love My Computer Game, a FREE game release, is now on GameJolt, itch.io, & RPGMaker Net: GameJolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/Please-Love-My-Computer-Game/318797 itch.io: https://aestheticgamer.itch.io/please-love-my-computer-game RPGMaker Net: https://rpgmaker.net/games/10350/ Steam release will come soon but first needs to get through Steam's review process. Please Love My Computer Game is a little free game of cryptic mysteries, road blocks, atmosphere, and discovery. "She waits. Explore an abandoned house in black and white as you solve cryptic puzzles and try to make discoveries. If you like to work with others to discover things, then you may like this game. I hope you love it, I really hope you do."

http://store.steampowered.com/app/796910 Please Love My Computer Game, a FREE game release, is now on GameJolt, itch.io, & RPGMaker Net: GameJolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/Please-Love-My-Computer-Game/318797 itch.io: https://aestheticgamer.itch.io/please-love-my-computer-game RPGMaker Net: https://rpgmaker.net/games/10350/ Steam release will come soon but first needs to get through Steam's review process. Please Love My Computer Game is a little free game of cryptic mysteries, road blocks, atmosphere, and discovery. "She waits. Explore an abandoned house in black and white as you solve cryptic puzzles and try to make discoveries. If you like to work with others to discover things, then you may like this game. I hope you love it, I really hope you do."