Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll news & patch notes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/369cfb7612c4e9361e53f73dcf997c715a2a54ea.jpg Dear friends! We hereby present you the DLC for "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll" — "Summer '94»! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3313270/Lyubov_Dengi_RoknRoll__Leto_94/ Also you can get a Steam key on our website.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/7ad67b8212950dbee898ae390d6ed82bb3a0029a.png Dear friends! Due to technical reasons, the release of the DLC for LMR has been postponed to February 13, 2025. The wait won’t be long! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3313270/Love_Money_RocknRoll__Summer_94/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/649ebd9a0611120104735c397a3f8b8ecf25394a.jpg Nihao, dear friends! We have released the translation to Simplified Chinese of the game. Currently, the translation is in the testing stage. You can check it out in the beta_chinese branch: in the Steam client, right-click on the game shortcut — Properties — Betas — beta_chinese. We would greatly appreciate your reviews and feedback!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/50290a0fd2e3fdae817bd1a640fb6e2b550599b7.jpg Dear friends! As 2024 draws to a close, it’s hard not to marvel at how quickly a quarter of the 21st century has passed. For those not born in this century, it might feel surreal, and for sci-fi writers of the past, it would seem even stranger that we still haven’t journeyed to other stars. But we have a fantastic alternative for you! The DLC for "Love, Money, Rock’n’Roll" is releasing on January 30, 2025! Add it to your wishlist here! In the coming year, we wish you strength and resilience. Think of your loved ones, remember those who need support, don’t ignore human suffering, and extend a helping hand to those in need! And if you are someone in need yourself—don’t hesitate to ask for help! After all, Homo Sapiens—this is my firm belief—is a species capable of rising above the natural instincts instilled in us by evolution, and with our hands (and minds), we can build a brighter future! The Soviet Games team wishes you a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/7ad67b8212950dbee898ae390d6ed82bb3a0029a.png Dear friends! Ahead of the release of the "Summer '94" DLC for our game "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll", we have published its Steam page. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3313270/Love_Money_RocknRoll__Summer_94/ Be sure to add it to your wishlist and stay tuned for updates! The countdown is now in months.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/de32872c7a0d97e6b3c45e569c43bed41fb99363.png Good day, dear friends! We are excited to inform you that our game is now fully translated into Spanish! Additionally, you can purchase it at a significant discount during the Steam Summer Sale starting tomorrow!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/a861a5b28534fc8ba267703b2a4eea9ce8a17e13.jpg Good day to you all, our dear players! Finally, we are happy to anounce that the work on DLC for "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll" is in progress! We already finished the scenario and now working on art and music. Stay in touch! You can purchase the game here.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/3de6dc6aaef4c646b9f9a2ca4aa43c16122fa3c8.jpg Дорогие друзья! Мы рады наконец-то представить вашему вниманию артбуки по нашей игре «Любовь, Деньги, Рок-н-Ролл»! В скором времени мы начнем рассылку предзаказанных артбуков, однако мы также готовы предложить тем, кто не успел оформить предзаказ, приобрести артбук по ссылке Спешите, количество строго ограничено!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/bb29b8f3c46a14f305c7cbbde0809eec5e6f8669.png Добрый день, дорогие товарищи и уважаемые друзья! Дабы отпраздновать открытие Мастерской в Стиме и в качестве благодарности контентмейкрам, сегодня мы хотим объявить конкурс на создание модификаций по нашей игре «Любовь, Деньги, Рок-н-Ролл»! Немного правил: 1. До участия допускаются ВСЕ модификации. 2. Мы не ограничиваем вас в выборе наполнения для модов, однако надо понимать, что чем больше у вас будет заимствованного контента, тем менее мод будет выглядеть оригинальным. Также у нас нет четких требований к длине модификаций – мы уверены, что будущие победители вполне способны в этом вопросе руководствоваться собственным здравым смыслом. 3.1. Заливать моды следует в Стим: https://steamcommunity.com/app/615530/workshop/ 3.2. А также для участия в конкурсе ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНО создать тему на нашем форуме для более удобного остлеживания прогресса и консолидации работ: https://sovietgames.su/forums/forum/lmr-mods-contest Создать тему лучше заранее, даже если ваш мод еще не готов. Сроки: Работы принимаются до 20.12.2023. Победителей будет выбирать квалифицированная экспертная комиссия. Призовой фонд: 1-е место: 30000 рублей. 2-е место: 15000 рублей. 3-5-е места: по 5000 рублей каждое.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/f29199c88c390266195ed9f0ec2d81bf8ff1e641.jpg Good day, dear friends! At long last we've added Workshop support on Steam! Now you can make your own modifications and sahre them with community. You can find Workshop here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/615530/workshop/ Modmaking guide: https://docs.lmr.su/shelves/modding

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/ea65c7157d15fe2857b31def382f3c1e42ba267a.png Good day to you, dear friends! On the 4th of August, exactly a year ago, Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll was finally released on Steam. Looking back, sometimes it appears as if that happened mere moments ago, and sometimes as if a lifetime has passed. Human memory is fickle like that, changing and shifting depending on your perspective and context. Nevertheless, we aren't just resting our oars — in the very near future, we will be releasing Steam workshop support! We know many people have been waiting for it, and we ask you to wait a little longer — just a few days. Besides that, we will soon start sending out physical artbooks to those who have preordered them. Plus, a certain, very limited, number of artbooks will become available for purchase. Naturally, we have plans for the future besides LMR as well, and you will definitely learn of them when the time is right. Stay tuned!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/67a9a1c71a769fc5e71d705b98c9eacc22a821ed.jpg Dear friends, wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This time we won't be talking about how difficult the past year was (and how difficult the next one may be), but instead, we ask you to just look at the picture below and remember that sometimes our lives may go down a very different route than what we'd expect. We know that many of you are waiting for Steam Workshop support, and we hope you'll be glad to hear it will be added as early as January 2023! Additionally, we'd like to offer our sincere gratitude for all the support and encouragement you've shown us this past year. It means a great deal, and Soviet Games would never have existed without all of you. Just as a reminder, Steam is holding its Winter Sale up until January 5th and Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll is available with a 50% discount!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/e9dbdb079a1707e57449a06162ea18a678e4d498.jpg Good day to you, dear friends! Steam Winter Sale is starting, which means the time has come for discounts! You can now buy Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll 50% off on Steam! Additionally, we'd like to present to you our digital artbook! If you made a preorder, you can claim it here: https://lmr.su/account As for our plans for the near future, we're still working on Steam workshop support. If we talk not-so-near future, we can't say anything concrete just yet, but in the new year, we promise to surprise you with something new in every sense of the word.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/f96f78aaf47960fc58ac49e796051d86ed0f2220.jpg Hello, dear friends! Autumn sale is starting on Steam and this means that it's discount time! You can get "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll" with 30% discount!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/9b8b736d2525f9de5340797a82e61193df9ac977.jpg Good day, dear friends! Enough time has passed since the release of Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll, and in this post, we'd like to share our plans for the future. 1. We are actively working on the production and mailout of the physical goods (artbooks, physical editions of the game, etc.) Unfortunately, the task is made a lot more difficult by the circumstances that have affected everyone in our country. 2. We are making progress with enabling Steam Workshop for the game, which, in turn, will allow for easier creation of user modifications. 3. We are trying to upload the OST to streaming platforms (Spotify, Yandex.Music, etc.) However, here we have also run into gigantic difficulties, and we cannot tell you if the OST will ever appear there since that doesn't depend on us. Even though we do have some approximate target dates for these tasks' completion, we cannot possibly voice them to you since, in the current uncertain situation, anything can happen. One thing we can say is that so long as we have access to computers and the internet, we keep working! We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who keeps supporting us and our games! We hope that in this difficult time they help you get distracted from the current events.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/026bc6ee05d7e2aaf27d0993a2725e99e6c1b61d.jpg Dear friends! We are starting to distribute keys for love, Money, Rock’n’Roll on mobile platforms! To claim your key, similar to a Steam key, you will need to log in at https://lmr.su/login and press the button of the desired platform. In the future, once the game is released, you will need to enter said key in the special window that will appear at the end of the fifth ingame day. Keys for Android, iOS, and Steam can still be purchased on our website up until the release date with the bonus of all future DLCs. Remember, “Love, Money, Rock’n’Roll” releases on all platforms on August 4th!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/3f6c4140862f5b35d0bc68aa315de34cdd76ccb7.jpg Dear friends! Today is the day when exactly a month remains until the release of our new game, "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll"! We have come a long way, one that would've been impossible without you and your support! Since the last blog post we: 1. Implemented the backer list with the ability to search by name. 2. Put a lot of work into preparing the game for launch on Google Play and App Store. 3. Solved a number of problems not directly connected to the game itself that had been mentioned in the May blog post. 4. Fixed a great number of small bugs that had been found by our community (thank you guys very much!) and showed up when creating especially exotic and difficult situations for the game. 5. Implemented new outlines for narrator names, now they look much better than before. 6. Improved sprite texture quality on mobile devices. 7. Added two more backgrounds. 8. Finishing up the addition of backer names to the credits — gotta have the final list for that! 9. Finishing up the system for giving out preorders on mobile platforms. As we'd mentioned before, after today we will not be accepting any more names for the credits, but you will still be able to make a preorder and receive all future DLCs (and a digital artbook). We'd also like to remind you that you can buy a key to the game right now on our website. And one more thing: the image in today's post isn't random. What it means, however, for now, you'll have to guess.

Hi guys! We know we have players all around the world, so we ask you for a little help. We need to translate 350-400 (description for Steam) words from English to French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brasilian Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. So, if you're native of these languages, feel free to contact us at [email protected] !

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/a7890590cc611878ff3ed22492f0215c538de5e9.png Good time of day to you, dear friends! Our main piece of news for today is the updated demo version of the game. But for starters, let’s review what’s been done in the time since the last post. The list of changes isn’t that long this time, but each of the entries includes a large amount of work in addition to, as always, a significant number of small changes behind the scenes. 1. Remade the file structure, which allowed us to significantly reduce loading times, especially on mobile. 2. Changed old and added new character animations — now they look better and more alive. 3. Added a second, “Modern” menu style more suited for mobile devices. If you liked the old one better, don’t worry, it didn’t go anywhere, you can always choose it via an option in the menu. This task took up quite a lot of time and effort since the last blog post. It may not look like it from the outside, but making GUI is hard! 4. Added the ability to view animated CGs in the gallery. 5. Updated several more CGs. 6. Updated the appearance of the main ingame interface. Now, regarding the demo version: it is already available for download on Steam. Though there are no changes to the story, the new demo features updated character sprites, animated CGs, many other smaller changes, and, most importantly, completely remade underlying code. We hope that in the light of the full game’s approaching release, you will find it enjoyable to refresh your memories of the demo. (You can expect the update to be pushed to mobile platforms in the nearest future.) And finally, we’d like to invite YouTubers and other influencers to receive pre-release (a week or two in advance) access to the game and give their opinions/make videos about it. If you find the prospect interesting, you can send us a letter to [email protected]. Just keep in mind that there will be a review process and an application doesn’t automatically mean you’ll receive a copy of the game. Don’t miss your chance to make a preorder until July 4th to see your name in the credits and get all future DLCs for free (you will be able to receive a Steam key immediately after purchase).

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/a987233261eee00a48bdc17c538995875728cfb5.png Hello, dear friends! In these complicated times, all of you, we’re sure, are waiting for good news. And we have just that! To get straight to the point — you can receive a Steam key for LMR right now! In the past month we’ve done the following: 1. Finished additional script direction. 2. Added another two — final — animated CGs. 3. Conducted wide-scale mastering of music and sfx. 4. Finished the system for keeping track of read text. 5. Made a multitude of small changes to a large number of CGs. 6. Added three more animated versions for backgrounds. 7. Added another background. 8. In accordance with our vision (and in big part based on the feedback of the people who have already played the game), remade the faces of two of our main girls — Himitsu and Kagome. You can see their new appearance in this post. 9. Added several more emotions to various characters. 10. Added the ability to play or stop music during game pause. 11. Started displaying the currently playing track during game pause. 12. Added title videos when launching the game. 13. Normalized texture appearance on iOS, significantly reduced game size. 14. Added screen shake effects during some scenes. 15. Added the ability to change screen refresh rate. 16. Implemented the system for Steam key distribution. There is, however, less pleasant news. Unfortunately, we are forced to delay the release of “Love, Money, Rock’n’Roll” by two months — to August 4th 2022. Let us explain this decision. The game itself, as a piece of artistic production, is complete (with a few minor details yet to be added — more about that at the end of the post). However, it’s been 10 years since the first release of Everlasting Summer; the world has changed, the media space has changed, and we have changed. We cannot simply upload the game on a file sharing service — all of you are waiting for it on Steam first and foremost. And to have it there, we still need to see to a number of procedures not directly tied to the development process. These include marketing, economic, legal, and other processes that are necessary to ensure the studio’s continued existence. And, due to the situation in the Russian Federation that we’re sure you’re all familiar with, we have encountered significant difficulties in this regard. Unfortunately, we are sure that none of you have been unaffected by these events, so we hope that you will understand why we had to take this step and forgive us one, final, small delay. As for the specifics, we cannot disclose everything publically, in part due to contractual obligations. We hoped to the last moment that the newfound problems would be resolved sooner and we would be able to release the game by June 2nd. But man proposes, and God disposes… Now for a few words as to why it’ll be two months specifically and not two days or, say, three weeks. Large companies like Steam and Google aren’t just sitting around and waiting with bated breaths for us to deign and provide our game for them to check. Often, verifying a build may take up to a week of real-world time. We have a small, (still) independent development team, and a single person may oftentimes handle a much wider sphere of duties than their colleague in a different company. Unfortunately, in the past two months, we have had to spend a significant amount of time resolving issues that we never intended to be handling in the first place. As for what we have left to finish in-game: supporter names (first iteration complete, requires some polish) in the credits; developer credits; work on mobile versions, including a new adaptive GUI for them; various minor improvements that we didn’t plan on adding initially but would be nice to have if possible. And finally, regarding key distribution. On our website (NOT in the letter you might have received), you can go to the “Orders” section (https://lmr.su/account), type in your email (the one you used when making the preorder), and receive a Steam key. Game distribution on mobile platforms will start later — they have a very different system, which also became an indirect reason for the delay. You can type in your desired name in the credits on the same page. We tried to load in the nicknames from the google forms that we had received, but unfortunately, not all of them were correctly filled in.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/19b84830f984042b91061862d0965d25f9591134.png Dear friends! As most of you already know, recently we have started sending out emails asking our backers for their desired names in the credits. If you are a backer and haven't received an email from us, please: 1) Check your spam folder. 2) Search your emails for "[email protected]" sender. 3) Check your blocklist in case [email protected] ended up in there. Even if you have lost access to the email address you've made the preorder from, in most cases the issue can be resolved. If doing everything of the above hasn't achieved any result, please drop us a message to our VK group messages or an email to the aforementioned address. Important notices: 1) We have received quite a few preorders and errors are statistically possible (and even likely), but every single one of our backers is accounted for! 2) So far, we have sent emails to the backers who made a preorder before April 11th 2022. Everyone who has and will make a preorder after this date will still get every bonus we have promised, but the emails will arrive later. 3) Later on, we will be sending out another wave of emails, this time asking for your preferred platform. We'd like to stress that it is critically important that you receive an email from this wave — otherwise, you may be left without a key. 4) We don't have a dedicated IT department and support service, so please be patient if we can't reply to you right away.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/01a7295e3625227a6b1ce0da743e45db49fae98a.jpg Dear friends! Today we'd like to present to you a report on the work done in the past month: 1. Finished 85% of additional script direction (up to 50% since the last blog post). 2. Optimized the amount of RAM the game uses doing fast-forward. 3. Added a minor variation for one of the backgrounds. You'll have to see which one in-game! 4. Finished two more animated CGs. 5. Slightly adjusted in terms of appearance, as well as optimized technically, the main interface (textboxes). 6. Significantly reduced game size on Android. 7. Remade the footnote system — it should now be much more convenient and easy to use, with a clear indication as to which word(s) a footnote is for. 8. Added and placed new sounds — about 100 effects such as wind noise, shutting doors, buzzes, gunshots, strums of guitar strings, etc. 9. Made a gallery for replaying the songs heard in-game, viewing seen backgrounds and CGs. Also added an interface for viewing their variations (such as CGs with various emotions). Creating the gallery took more time than we anticipated. 10. Added more character animations for specific situations, improved some models' technical capabilities for animation. We also made even more small adjustments, bug fixes, changes than last month, and it would be impossible to mention all of them here. Speaking about what we have left to do in terms of the game's main functionality, that would be: keeping track of seen text (for skipping only it and not all text) and auto-forward. We also have a weighty backlog of tasks that mostly consists of bugs and small features. Most of them aren't that significant — we doubt most players will even notice them — but some are more apparent, such as a better outline for character names. Despite the difficult situation in the country and the world, at the moment the release date remains the same: 2nd of June 2022. You can still support us, see your name in the credits, as well as receive valuable bonuses and DLCs.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/1c148cc4609c32181c5c9eb07ec5ea68ec5d4106.png Good day, dear friends! With the current events unfolding in our country and the world, today we’d like to limit ourselves to listing everything we’ve done in the past month and our plans for the nearest future. 1. A lot of work has been done on script direction, including scene transitions and custom positions for sprites. I’d like to clarify that this is additional work tied to improving the experience — the main part is long finished. 2. Added new sprite emotions for particular situations. 3. Added new sprite animations (nods, steps, etc.) for particular situations. 4. New functionality added for playing animations at particular points as the text appears on the screen, which allows us to make the sprites react more dynamically to what’s happening instead of being limited to a single standard change of emotion. 5. Optimisation done for small screen resolutions, antialiasing implemented without any loss of performance. 6. The sprite display system has been improved to ensure a lower chance of bugs in the future. 7. Early bets-testing has been started, first feedback received from people outside of the actual game developers. Opening beta-testing to the people who have preordered the game (meaning the “Beta tester” tier) is planned a bit later, after the first testers catch the critical bugs — if any. 8. Two new backgrounds added, animations added to several more. 9. Three new animated CGs added. 10. Easter eggs added. You’ll have to find them yourselves! 11. Translation system has been completed (English translation is ready). 12. An enormous amount of small optimisations, additions, and bug fixes have been made, impossible to list all of them here. The release date is still set to 2nd of June — no changes here. Initially, we were planning to bring you some good and even unexpected news today, but it so happens that we’ll have to postpone them to Match. We really hope that by then the situation stabilizes. We understand that computer games aren’t a priority at the moment, but we’re still doing our best to deliver a truly quality product for all of you! You can still support us, see your name in the credits, and receive all future DLCs. Be kind to yourselves and other people of planet Earth, don’t make Catherine cry!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/eaf50a6eb6a0d4c3dfc75bb30ff06f46a225857c.png Dear friends, the Christmas and NY holidays are behind us, but as they say, for a real game developer, every day is a holiday (we wish it were true)! In the past month, we spent a lot of time improving the existing sprite animations and adding new ones. We hope that now our characters will look even more alive to you! We are also finishing up the work on the game's code — even though the main functionality is long done, we still need to round up the less demanding tasks like the gallery, the credits, and achievements. At the same time, we have started squashing bugs, of which there are quite a few at this stage. We're not only talking about technical bugs but also stuff like character expressions incorrectly placed in the script and sounds playing at the wrong times. We are planning to start testing proper pre-release beta-versions on PC as early as February, then begin adapting the game for mobile devices. It is important to remember that the development itself isn't the only thing we need to handle. The process of the game's approval by online storefronts (Steam, Google Play, App Store), can take 1 to 2 months. So in actuality, we need to have the more-or-less final version of the game "on-hand" long before June 2nd. That's it in terms of numbers. As for the game itself and the experience it will provide, I never tire of repeating: the full picture creates a much more vibrant impression than the sum of its parts. Well then, we hope that this synergistic effect will work not only on the developers themselves but on our players as well. From our side, we'd like to give you a humble gift: everyone who has already made the preorder (as well as those who will have preordered from today until the release) will get the game's PDF artbook for free! And those who have already bought the PDF artbook will receive the digital OST! Finally, we would like to offer to your attention the evolution of the sprites for secondary characters between the demo version and now. You can see your name in the credits, receive all future DLCs, as well as the aforementioned and other bonuses by supporting us here.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/21a4a2372ec285bd3c27c5484e93b2ced3ae9a28.png Dear friends! The year 2021 is coming to an end. Today I don't want to talk about how difficult it's been for all of us — you'll hear plenty of that elsewhere. Let's focus on the positives: in the departing year, the text for "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll" has finally been completed, then assembled into the in-game script. An enormous amount of work has been done on the programming side, the art, the animations, several more music tracks have been recorded, ambiences finished. To be honest, this year has been one of the best as of late in terms of the work done — this is a year I'm not ashamed of. And most importantly, we have the date — the 2nd of June 2022 — when the long-awaited release of our long-awaited game will finally happen. I'd like to use this opportunity to wish myself and every other Soviet Games employee patience and persistence in this last stretch of development. And to all our readers, players, sponsors, and just anyone else interested — good health, happiness, more positive and less negative emotions, as well as emotional warmth to your families! It may be that today, more than ever before, fiction (be it literature, cinema, or video games) can become the bridge to connect our extremely polarized world, help different people, even those with very little in common, understand each other, and bring hope to those about to despair. We sincerely hope that that is what our game will be for you — even if for the few (or many) hours that you spend on playing it. And of course, we will see you here, in the same place, next year, to talk about a new project, new challenges, new goals, while remembering the long road we've walked together! You can still support us by making a preorder, seeing your name in the credits, receiving valuable bonuses and all future DLCs.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/a0ae979303ba304e6995fa3c3a7a0f2438743931.jpg Hello, dear friends! We know that many of you have been waiting for the end of Autumn to learn the release date of "Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll". We're pleased to reveal just that: the game will come out on the 2nd of June 2022! Finishing the core codebase took somewhat longer than we initially anticipated, but this time we can assure you, firmly and clearly, that LMR will be released at or before the aforementioned date no matter what! Until that time, we will need to complete and polish all the animations for all the characters (both in terms of actual Live2D models and porting them to Unity3D). We ended up having 35 of them just for the secondary characters! Also, it's always hard to achieve perfection in anything concerning code, but we're really trying to do just that! (just kidding.) In all seriousness, besides just being playable from start to finish, there's also a whole lot of little things that are necessary for the project to take its final form — the form of a commercial product. We won't bore you by listing every task from our bug tracker, we just want to let you know that we're working on them. The last but still very important aspect will be mobile device optimisation, which we've mentioned before. There's still a whole month left before Christmas and the New Year, but today, looking back at the work done, I would like to thank everyone who worked on the project! No matter the size of their contribution. Not all of them were with us from start to finish, not everyone spent years of their life on the game, but all did something to bring LMR closer to release. Perhaps a status report/blog post is not the best place for lyrical digressions, but at this moment I remember the music track Sparkles from Everlasting Summer. One day, it appeared in our IRC channel (the ancient thing!), brought by its composer who preferred to stay anonymous. Which is great but in and of itself not that remarkable. However, many years after ES's release, we received an email from one of the readers who specifically mentioned how much he liked this track. The only track not written by our two main composers. So, as they say in expensive soft-covered motivational books, even the smallest thing can be important to someone! To end this post, we'd like to once again thank you for your support! You can still make the preorder, receive valuable bonuses as well as future DLCs, and see your name in the credits here. Keep in mind that the preorders will be closed soon! Also, the physical goods mentioned in those preorders — the disks, the artbooks, etc. are exclusive for those who make a preorder and will not be sold at later dates. As an illustration for this post, we'd like to present you with a video of Ellie's new animations and her rehearsal space!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/66470448821ed07b02e9ec5842440b3368d5e1cb.jpg Hello, dear friends! Unfortunately, the new Coronavirus wave has tightly gripped our country, so first and foremost we'd like to ask you to take care of yourself and your close ones! In the recent posts we promised to bring you good news this Autumn, and Autumn is not yet over! In all seriousness though, we're all still working tirelessly to bring Love Money Rock'n'Roll to completion at the earliest possible date. However, there's little chance we'll be able to do so in 2021. Naturally, we have some internal approximate milestones, but we want to finish the game as soon as possible without sacrificing its quality, so we think it'll only be right to announce the exact date when we're absolutely sure of it ourselves. But we promise that before the end of Autumn, we will tell you the release date we'll stick to for sure! Game development is often not a consecutive process where task A follows task B, and only then comes task C. The terrifying expression "mobile device optimization" doesn't mean that we'll first polish the PC version and only after, once it's 100% ready, we'll put it aside and start porting the game to Android and iOS. The way Unity (and Renpy in a lot of senses) works is that most of the game's contents (the text, the illustrations, the music) doesn't depend on the engine and the platform — thus, while we're finishing up these aspects, the programmers are busy with the necessary adjustments for mobile platforms. Still, I'd like to clarify that the core of the game is being made on PC and for PC — and that has to be kept in mind. On the other hand, it'd be wrong to discriminate against the people who are waiting to play LMR on Android and iOS specifically. On the substantive part of the game, we still need to animate some sprites (unfortunately, the process is taking more time than we anticipated) and prepare the background ambiences (opening doors, sizzling eggs, etc.). We plan to finish these tasks this year. I'll clarify that even without this content, we're actively testing the game. In this difficult time (and it IS difficult, no two ways about it), I'd also like to give a special thank you to everyone who supports our studio — both materially and morally. It's important to understand that without you, the game would've never become a reality (which it absolutely will)! I'm not talking about likes or comments specifically right now. I see the general picture, the platforms besides Steam and VK, and the enormous amounts of support that are simply invisible to most — in emails, in personal messages, even in comments to Everlasting Summer. We all want to express our gratitude to those people! There are moments when a kind word can do more than any material aid. You can't finish the book for the writer, the track for the musician, the code for the programmer. Well, okay, you technically can, but believe me, it's not a good idea. I understand that this post sounds like an excuse — and it is. But be sure, no one is waiting for the game's release as much as the people working on it. However, exactly because we're working on it, we understand that a release in the next month or two is impossible. Additionally, today we'd like to show you another vocal track from the game, which you can enjoy together with Kagome! You can still support us by making a preorder and see your name in the credits, as well as get all future DLCs.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28304860/deab8887af67db0f137273035c4ae6f5594e4cb1.jpg Dear friends! The last day of September bids us farewell with its crimson rays of sunlight, which means the time has come for yet another progress update. Every game comes a long way from its conception to release. And even in the latest stages of development, different beta versions may be quite different from each other. Even the very term “playable” doesn’t make the product ready to be shown to a wider audience. What we want to say is that our game is already playable, but we still need some time to polish and get it to shape. Objectively, there are some areas that can be left as-is, and others that can’t. Believe us when we say we’re not nitpicking or trying to fix what’s not broken! What still needs work: background ambiences, small heroine sprite adjustments, direction, translation, some residual code issues. We promised to bring you good news this Autumn, and we’ll absolutely do just that! After all, the season has only just begun. For now, you can still support us and see your name in the credits, receive valuable bonuses, and all future DLCs.