Drift Stage - Post Steam Launch Overview.

Drift Stage. Steam Early Access Launch, 2023 Review.

Welcome to the Summer 2024 "Drift Stage" overview. The nature of this announcement serves as a follow-up and update on the development status of Drift Stage, and as well as a preamble for the announced "Steam Community Content" update.

The mixture of circumstances and previous delays; combined with a demand far exceeding the capacity of "Super Systems" as a studio - made for a very unpredictable and challenging launch.

Despite the necessity for an unannounced, unadvertised release - in January of 2023, Drift Stage's reception and interest far exceeded any internal predictions or metrics.

**For the first time since 2016, Drift Stage's Early Access release announcement saw engagements of over 100K people. **That's more than any trailer, demo build, or soundtrack release since the original video that launched the project in 2014.

2023 Publishing Talks & Reception.

If you are interested in publishing "Drift Stage", contact "Super Systems Processing" via our listed e-mail address at:

"Drift Stage: Steam Support Page"

One of the main goals of this delayed "Early Access" release - somewhat of a contradiction in itself; was, and continues to be - seeking a publisher to pick-up development and bring the resources required to complete Drift Stage, and bring the Steam version to a releasable state - where the fundamental issues of production funding and lack of a marketable "game" vs. a unfinished prototype - are solved.

Talks stemming from January of 2023, all the way through to November of 2023 - almost met these goals - and the final decision not to move forward was due to the same issues that lead "Drift Stage" to such a delayed and rocky development - since 2019.

A signature required on a document - allowing for the legal transfer of the games Source code, to the interested publisher - could not be obtained; not without undue effort - and not in time to fit the game into the time window required.

This process was time consuming, resource intensive, and costly; and should have - under any other circumstance - allowed for "Drift Stage" to be acquired and finished by a professional team - with a budget.

**With that stated - the document issue has been dealt with - and any future publishing opportunities can move forward. **

2024 - Steam Community Content Update.

In the interest of providing new content, and requested features while new software updates or publishing opportunities are not available; "Super Systems Softworks" has prepared a set of "Steam Trading Cards" and their accompanying "Community Features".

Series "Zero" contains seven unique trading cards, with the chance to unlock Profile Backgrounds, Steam Chat Emoticons, and Profile Badges - each with their own rarity and drop rate.

Please look forward to an announcement [very soon]; as this fresh content has just been cleared for release.

New Official Drift Stage Website and URL.

Drift Stage's website has been relaunched, compromising of a new platform specifically built for Drift Stage. This user focused design acts as an archive and central hub for Drift Stage's previous demo builds - media assets - and videos.

Potential for development of new updates and expansions on this platform will continue into 2024.

https://driftstageofficial.com/

Outstanding questions, new customers - a new era.

To clarify any confusion regarding Drift Stage's development status, this testing build of "Drift Stage" was left unreleased since late 2019 - due to internal conflicts with Drift Stage's only programmer leaving the project unannounced. These same problems prevented the aforementioned publishing agreement in 2023 from finalizing. I apologies for the continued issues with the original development team. Their actions towards Drift Stage are out of my hands and have contributed to years of set-backs for the project as a whole, and operating "Super Systems" as a studio.

With that stated, and already known by most of Drift Stage's fans and player-base - I would like to move on to the current and relevant topics of this project - as any updates to the current version of Drift Stage is dependent on acquiring a publishing deal - with the resources to finish and maintain the project and IP - or hiring a skilled programmer, willing to put in the effort to independently finish and deliver Drift Stage.