Will Glow the Wisp news & patch notes

To celebrate the SHMUP Fest, I am happy to announce that Will Glow the Wisp is now available in the following new languages:

• Italian
• Spanish
• Korean
• Russian
• Turkish
• French
• Japanese

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{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28843570/8fc63cf2bcb485f7c3b345e694790a26fd32090f.png I am happy to announce that School of Magic will be part of the Games from Germany steam sale. Take a look at all the great games and wishlist all of them! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1106680/School_of_Magic/

Offline Mode works now again if you log in for the second time and further. To be continued (I really hope not)

After the last update I was contacted by a person who still had the endless loading bug problem. Because of the changes I was able to reproduce this issue more easiliy and I was able to fix it. I am fairly certain I have fund all the bugs now, but you never know. If you still encounter the issue please let me know.

FInally had an idea on how to fix the endless load bug, hopefully this will put it to rest forever.

Hi to all of you, I just released my new android puzzle game Boing. To celebrate that I discounted Will Glow the Wisp by 81%.

Boing

In Boing, players get to relive the joy of knocking down a tower of toys with just one shot! The game's objective is to knock over all the toys before the player runs out of stars.

Trailer

Information

Release Date: Thursday 19 January 2023 Gerne: Casual, Physics Puzzle Download Link: Google Play Store

Thanks to all of the people that wishlisted School of Magic all of you can enjoy Will Glow the Wisp for a mere 1.99$. I had a great time at gamescom and I hope to see all of you again. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28843570/f522e9aea3b5096d2a3991d8600040e65f386572.png

I am going to show School of Magic at this years gamescom and I am really excited. To celebrate I created a new Trailer and I am giving away Will Glow the Wisp for free if enough people Wishlist School of Magic. Here is how the event works

• 10 000 wishlist for School of Magic means that the price for Will Glow the Wisp drops from 2.99$ to 1.99$
• 15 000 wishlist drops the price to 0.99$
• 20 000 wishlists for School of Magic makes Will Glow the Wisp free
• The price will change either by the end of the Gamescom (Aug 28th 23:00 CET) or after 20 000 wishlists have been hit. Keep in mind that Valve still needs to process the request so expect a slight delay, after the event is over.

So if you want to get Will Glow the Wisp for free go and Wishlist School of Magic and just wait 😉

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28843570/675ae3c373a9d86a176bec9913d14b6f9650e6ca.png Many of you requested a mobile version of Will Glow the Wisp and now it is finally available on google play. In celebration I added a new character, that will let you get to the top of the leaderboard if you are able to handle it. But that's not all, you will also benefit from performance improvements made for the Android version and I finally found the bug that caused some players to not be able to start the game. So I hope to see a ton of new highscores from all of you. There is also a new version of the demo that gives you 15 lives. So if you're good enough, you can play the game completely for free. Regards Niki

Server maintenance is now finished, sorry for the inconvenience. Regards Niki

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am in the process of changing some stuff in the database and it takes way longer to run than I expected. I hope / think it should be finished soon but in the meantime: If you experience long loading times when logging in, it is due to the server currently going under maintenance. I will update you as soon as the maintenance is over. Update I changed it so you should no longer have long wait times, but the maintance still continues, so all online activities are right now not possible. I hope I can finish the work by the end of the day. Regards Niki

Another day, another maintenance, I hope I can finish today. If you experience long loading times when logging in, it is due to the server currently going under maintenance. I will update you as soon as the maintenance is over. Regards Niki

I was not able to fix the problems with the server so I will need to continue with the maintenance tomorrow, but for now everything should work as usual. Regards Niki

If you experience long loading times when logging in, it is due to the server currently going under maintenance. I will update you as soon as the maintenance is over. Regards Niki

- Fixed bug where challenge levels did not save the stars - Made a fix that should avoid the endless loading screen some players have - Updated UI of School of Magic banner

Most of you will not know, but I did run an event, because my other game School of Magic is part of Gamescom this year, where every subscriber to my newsletter would get a free copy of Will Glow the Wisp. And to my surprise, almost 40 000 people signed up, because of that I decided to make Will Glow the Wisp free for everyone until the end of the month. Thanks again to all the subscribers who made this possible. If you want to support me please consider wishlisting my new game School of Magic. Here is the trailer to School of Magic

I am happy to announce that the prologue to my next game just released and you can play it now for free. I would love to hear your thoughts on the game and if you have any further questions feel free to ask me.

"Many people from around the world are enjoying Will Glow the Wisp and because of frequent requests, I decided to add a translation into simplified Chinese to the game. I hope you enjoy it."

As some of you already noticed there were some performance issues when loading levels if you had a ghost selected. In addition to that, the high scores took a very long time to load. The issues where the increase of players because of the free weekend, got my server to its limits. In order to fix that I reworked how I accessed data in my backend and now all these performance issues should be gone. Regards Nikolas Crisci

Beat me to get a free key

To prove that you beat me, post a screenshot of the "I give up" achievement showing your steam account name here. You can get this achievement by beating all the beat the developer challenges, which will unlock while you play Will Glow the Wisp. I will send you a key for a friend via steam.

A new version of Will Glow the Wisp is available, here are the changes: - The bug that the star character could kill enemies when he was a ghost is now fixed - The game did get a bunch of performance improvments

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28843570/5626ea545f7714ae237f4b7e5552ef94b523b9bd.jpg Will Glow the Wisp is now playable in the toy musem of Nürnberg (Spielzeugmuseum) for the entire month. Not in my wildest dreams I imagined something like that. So if you are near Nürnberg and want to play awesome games made in frankonia like Chromagun VR from Pixel Maniacs or Avorion, this is your chance ;) Link to the musem https://museen.nuernberg.de/spielzeugmuseum/kalender-details/games-made-in-franken-1706/

I visited the "Pixel Maniacs" in Nürnberg to talk with them in their "Pixel Blah" Twitch stream. If you speak German and want to know more about the development of Will Glow the Wisp, you should take a look ;) Link to the interview

I am currently working hard to get Will Glow the Wisp on XBox, which includes an Update to Will Glow the Wisp. But in the meantime this: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28843570/ed2d80a5fb83dd2bd62125594f310d9073290674.jpg I recently released a game called Zoo Party on android. It is a puzzle game where you control up to 16 animals with one finger. Because it is Christmas I wanted to give you guys free keys to the game. If you decide to play the game please let me know what you think. Link To Google Play Here are the keys 0RNGS6SLDVTA2XPQ1SMSPGP 9XL37L9K3458MNJ3C5A3S0G SAWLQ8QURA1YUG9ST9FD7HD XVB4TCP827MM7CTZQSY6NV0 Q42JU33DVH0E0LJSXMM0MZQ HXV9HZ2K9CB51624WYB8F39 XL6LA55QPNPPT8CBV3PPDTY ZYKEAQ74Y2J1JDTMYUC9UZ3 B2NJK0300NMM1RHH67HHAMV K4X07G903Z231J16NSHVNM4 SKW7AGXSKBFXG639Z7KBMY9 M09SAA92W732DY1G63LJZKD R2GP4KS8AMGCWM0PAH21CZR 759NJ7VXVCQTWA7CNM6H05S LLD07EUMFZTFG32BL6Y100X R33Z4FA1016NG2CMURHQ7C5 EHFGYMBESDE97N95H0AFE4K 79YAR7EB2C8F2FSS1275WNM UPFW4Q6NQF1VJPZX5VP1Z4U P7B234FDKTHQHMLCSTJ1GRW FCQ9R2SMXNVK8MG0CK3ECZ6 1L2NBPN6VXNKVV75QS33Z1P 0XDXDATLXQ0YBH0DB00QYCQ 5TS0J6BSG7QTTQFQ32Z5UJ6 2EDWB4B8RKLJAXNBB0KEVYW JLR5DZAJ31RX8446SUQUVUJ GWSJY0XNXTUMDM48AN20EHP JZZE25301XXTNHFU3B3HW2X 59JU43KVJ27MJ58F4XFP6GR PQ7XGMA6WA5WQ791K9HZ6YN 6AELYMN5B9WV17A4R1H5XSN YE7UZ8EUC4QYN4ZE7JW09UZ A9YHGKWTFAAZY5MF7RZ5N7P BMSUKMY3Z7ZUF8QV1XHCX6Q C0MK3QX6DFFN0KNSSJQBMV4 J3FDKWCWVS17CRP79LHH5Z3 PEYM9FFR8NG263C42QWD7LE UXQRW5A2QGYP9KZM0YRKLNN XZ2PT73C88R1X4MFK5KYYKS Z3CJT8FXJLD94KWQK9WUEBB HDU2W83AWNDDXD33WF4Z24R R3SU1W44XNY9CU4DFUC23LM RTWFEJV5JUMN94DDM9UYSHN L7P73AM9EPAKB6ZE568LUE4 WPPZ1KZEE5J1GG6461XAASV 77MWZDK4PDFVVM3TQY6D55U UW8BL42B7X8G5WC0FJEFW0D Z9PJXQ9FUGZBUCK7391MELH 7R50EA0216DQWAF5ZZQ3Z74 XX0JNPWQHBFCYZSNWMM9YXG AKCB660J2SAZ8SAFA861W7V BREX3ZJ6X6DGP2AUMLXQKNN B7T18FL2432PLHD8U22KVVS KWNCPPV8H0NJ9AU6R62W2QT VUUG6K7KM7E5CLJ3Q4UBUXU 8HKE5LW5PYTLRWX8QCH1B05 BHB6JUGAW4U11ZCXLAZF8CH H0251UHWLNGJEQMBD6BH4E3 21TU4X6XVLM3BQE4H6PU0TS 965L1N7G9Z00SXWTQMJAGNA BYEZVTBT1M9H5HFEDWNMP6T 6S2JTZ53XRW62DGU39707PS 09T2WBCA37S17C2AVND821P 3V302YLW2NXFBKA3VSRUEBV H7DYFLBU1JXYS6K2PV2N19J JN9BBYR8NWDAT3A4E5VE94U VVC92LYVERKU93VE0S6B5SQ 7BFJFPA3FVLBU6HPFQ2QCMS KH0JK7P0FLZDZJY0WBQDS4X 1HKAWBVZZRPKWA14WRU5GCX PJDENQQZ7K9N15N1139Y45U GRCJS5Q0XZ9PKRZNTY36TA1 LFC5SSY8PPWBMH3RSTKYDPH 7KVHD02PQLMRBWSYZVJ9HQM W36KH9DQJ9FNZGUXHRRJKD7 LZ2169PRC7VH8Q3TAYA84MA 2YHJZ50ZB6R687XLSG7NZCS BLZHDPCT66ER6Y8HBS6AK5X 2WXAKDWR0BKPCSLT1QKP3W4 RJESDSAZ81PTSPECJBGLK49 4Z1HQGCMT2GTZ9E25UVELND 8FFEZT1G8C7CDQKBMT3RPU4 CPXB7GC72PDFA3JNKTAM3XB 03GD2QAYNGZQXZFZ2N01UCJ H5X8Z0CJB39011ZDYVBSFU1 4QDZZHMXEXML7GY8VA90VFA EDT2ZKMGQ0PJHPD0KQ4P5RN MEX6U6NK5Z6NSA6BBJTTRDK V6NYB6JYVXASFVADP4GJ9BR 33MFFLNP5LWLF43237C45YM SEMSUMT6Q32YXCURL55UTTS C5SUSQXG58HDHP5XCN1S4GN CKMD0Q0VP771JC6EM0Y14QM MLS5ZJUZCSP2X0JDD6SPBZ0 Z83QG0QBKHM6WFNW8F3J7NS 261F7QBBGRDVUNKQ3DHU005 RWET029PELKAWXU7AGSPUHL 1GBCGYZQW89PWL65U9YHDHR F1JWP0RSU8MC9XRTUB7MZWK YALLTZ6CMEJKSCYM05FNECH

Hi to you all, I just set the version 1.2 of Will Glow the Wisp live it includes the following changes: - Improved UI to contain more Information during Level Start - Some minor Bugfixes - Added a Privacy Policy Screen one time when you start the game - Extended the Options to contain the Privacy Policy - Added a way to play Offline, so none of your data is being transmitted. I hope you enjoy these changes. As a side note, the work on the XBOX One version is continuing and I am expecting to release a version in August this year. As a part of that I am also planning to release a bigger update for Steam, including additional languages and some not announced changes, so keep an eye out. Regards Niki

I recently changed the price of the game from 7.99$ to 2.99$ and I wanted to explain to you why. I asked around my circles and I got mixed feedback, once people played the game most people would say that the old price was fine or even a bit cheap, but if they did not know it a lot felt it was too expensive. I think the main reason for that is the art style and to a lesser extend the genres. After a long internal struggle I decided to cut the price down to be more in line what people expect, because I want people to have fun with my game. I wanted to thank everyone who paid the full price. If this change in price makes you angry please contact me at [email protected] and we will come up with a solution. Regards Niki