Announcing the Awakening Update

Hey everyone,

We've been on the quieter side over the past couple months, but don't worry, we weren't hibernating. In fact, today we're excited to announce our biggest content drop yet, the Awakening Update. Due to its scope, it's taken a bit longer than past updates, but we're currently targeting a release in mid-to-late February.

Here's what you can expect:

Brand New Game Flow

We've heard your feedback on pacing and game flow, and have made some major changes to improve the player experience.

The largest change - Cassidy no longer wakes up between dreams. Instead, your dream is one continuous experience.

As for the waking world - we've done away with the concept of "time" as energy to be used. The waking world is much more freeform with lots of new things to do (more on that in the bit).

We've tried our best to retain the elements that are working, while adjusting other elements that needed some love, and introducing new elements to fill out areas of the game that were lacking.

Game flow is an area that we will continue to expand on in future updates to make sure the player experience feels well paced.

Meta Progression

This is a big one - we've spent a lot of our time this update introducing layered progression systems that will alter the Dreamscape, increase Cassidy's strength, provide fun goals and drastically flesh out the Waking World.

Without revealing too much, 6 major new gameplay systems are being introduced to make sure that playing Dreamscaper over time is as satisfying as first picking it up!

Here's a sneak peak at one of those systems:

Updated UI

Our UI got a facelift across the Waking World. You can expect an improved user experience and new visual stylings for this coming update. Here's a look at our redesigned map:

New Content

Due to the size and scope of this update, there will be less traditional new content, such as items, enemies and levels, but we'll make sure to sneak some in before coming back to new content as a focus in future updates.

We'll have a more thorough rundown of all the cool changes you can expect for the Awakening Update soon! As this is such a meaty update, and has taken more time than our regular updates we want to thank you for sticking with us.

• Rob, Paul & Ian