These past few months, we’ve been working hard on finding the right partner to help us make this game a reality. Today, we can finally share the exciting news: [h3]SUN AND SERPENT, the development studio working on BLADESONG, has signed a publishing deal with UK-based publisher [url=https://store.steampowered.com/developer/mythwright]MYTHWRIGHT[/url]![/h3] Mythwright has only recently been founded by a team of veterans with decades of combined industry experience, having worked with games such as Alan Wake II, PC Building Simulator, and Going Medieval. We are proud that Bladesong is one of the first few games to be signed under this new label. What does all this mean for the game? First of all, it means that we are now able to build up the team a little more. Narrative designer [b]Harry Tuffs[/b] is getting to work effective immediately, and my brother [b]Jonas Kuri[/b], who has been my trusted advisor from the day the idea first came up, will work on the game’s design full-time from September. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44245257/5ed310ecdedbc3a3539c1c24b0c388b0af4d3903.jpg[/img] [i]Christian, David and Harry inspecting a Petersen Type H replica.[/i] Second, it means that Mythwright will take care of all the things that we don’t have time for or aren’t particularly good at. They will help us keep track of social media, support community events and spread the word about the game through their marketing sorcery. They will also make sure the game is properly localised and tested (though the fixes are still on us 🙃), and advise us in questions of the game’s creative development. But, and this is a very important point, both sides understand what Bladesong is all about and agree that SUN AND SERPENT are the creative owners of the game. Our vision for the game will not change, nor will the way that we interact with you, our community. To kick off the collaboration, Mythwright came to visit us in our hometown Braunschweig last week. In addition to numerous discussions around the game and where we’d like to take it, we visited the Municipal Museum in the old town hall to find a [i]huge[/i] Zweihänder, and inspected and held some modern-day swords so everyone could get a feel for them. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44245257/7b7d641fccd3151d0ce7e67f0e5ca2dc7f128c53.jpg[/img] [i]The massive Braunschweig state guard Zweihänder we found.[/i] One of the reasons we spent several months talking to numerous publishers is that we wanted to find the [i]right[/i] partner, not just the one that leaves us with the biggest piece of the cake, but the one where our guts say “Yep, these are the people we want to work with.” We have without a doubt found them in Mythwright and we’re proud to be partnering up with this fantastic team. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44245257/d099908822f038512392e2ddbc26ee5abaeb0c32.jpg[/img] [i]The gang united, Stuart of MYTHWRIGHT and David of SUN AND SERPENT crossing swords.[/i] If you have questions, our [url=https://discord.gg/bladesong]Discord[/url] is the best place to ask. Ellie (@eball__) and Amy (@amy.mw) from Mythwright are around and together with us devs, will answer what they can! Onwards! – David and the Bladesong team ⚔️ [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44245257/d344ca3920ede554d7f5210dc15834b3279267b8.jpg[/img] [i]David’s daily reminder to never swing decorative swords.[/i]