Hello SunnySide Family! 🌟The wait is over!🌟 [h2][b]SunnySide is officially out now on Steam! 💞[/b][/h2] Get ready to find harmony in the Japanese countryside, cultivate new relationships and create the home of your dreams🏡✨ Watch the full Launch Trailer for SunnySide: [previewyoutube=1wDQmpX_7to;full][/previewyoutube] Start your farming journey today and get SunnySide now on Steam - with 20% off for a limited time! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1746930/SunnySide/ ___ It’s been a heck of a journey, but we’re finally here: Launch Day! Let’s get the business out of the way, and then we’ll have some personal notes from the devs at the end of the update. Some Notes for our Homesteaders: [u][b]Controller Support[/b][/u] Controller Support in SunnySide has been marked as partially compatible. There currently isn’t an on-screen keyboard when using a controller, which is something we are working to implement post-launch - we’ll need this for the console release. We recommend that you play SunnySide with keyboard and mouse for the best experience, however you can play with controller if you choose - just be aware you may find an odd menu that doesn’t have controller support. Please feel free to let us know through bug reports of any issues and we’ll work to fix these as soon as possible. [u][b]Demos[/b][/u] We’ve made some changes to the save system since the last demo update, so unfortunately saves from the demo won’t work with the full version of the game. Please clear your save folder before beginning a new full-game save. You can find the save folder in your Documents>RainyGames>SunnySide inside you should be able to see your saves alongside a folder called “CC”, this folder contains your last character you made for the character creator. If you’d like to preserve your last created character for the character creator, delete everything in the SunnySide folder except for the folder “CC”. If you don’t care about keeping it, just entirely delete the SunnySide folder. If you’re struggling with Steam Cloud, please post to the Steam forums or our Discord server and we’ll help you the best we can. However, we will be pushing an update to the demo. Anyone who downloads the demo after today will be able to continue their demo save into the full version. [u][b]Performance[/b][/u] SunnySide is a huge game with an open world map and the potential for many hours of gameplay; with 113 plants to grow, 24 animals to raise, 27 NPCs to get to know and numerous side activities. The town of SunnySide is designed as a living, breathing place, and has been built by a very small development team We’re aware of some frame drop issues in certain parts of the town. These are a result of building interior maps loading in when you pass them. We’ve done everything we can do to optimize those smaller maps, but are now working to change how and when they load in. This is the first thing we’ll be working on in the coming weeks. We sincerely appreciate your patience while we get everything fully optimized, and we hope you can still fully enjoy the game despite the random pops. [u][b]What’s Next?[/b][/u] SunnySide has been a labor of love since 2020, and RainyGames has every intention of continuing to support it as long as players love it! Our first priority is going to be smoothing out bugs and performance and giving hotfixes, and then we want to move on to QOL updates and then see what the future holds. Player feedback is really important to us, and your feedback will help shape what bug fixes and QOL improvements we include post-launch. ___ We also have a quick note from the devs: [i][b]Rainy:[/b][/i] SunnySide will forever have a special place in my life. After Covid, my personal life started looking very bleak, the future looked uncertain and a fog of negativity was surrounding us. To borrow a sentence from Sean Murray, the creator of No Man’s Sky: “In the face of adversity, I always just kept my head down and did what I know how to do: make games” so that’s what I did. SunnySide was the escape, the only bright light in our life while reality looked scary. I started the Kickstarter campaign hoping people would fall in love with the atmosphere and the world I was envisioning in my head, but in all honesty, I never thought it’d be successful let alone become as big as it did. I am incredibly grateful and lucky to have had such a talented group of people join my efforts in bringing this game to life. I poured my heart and soul into this game and I hope this very first game of ours manages to find a place in your life as it did for me. Thank you for giving us a chance. <3 [i][b]Sydney:[/b][/i] My relationship with SunnySide was only ever meant to be as a KickStarter backer. (Yeah. I backed the game at an embarrassingly high tier). What started as an offer to help design a cooking system turned into the craziest adventure of my life, and I’m so thankful to Rainy for trusting me with such a fulfilling business partnership. I’ve only ever wanted to help him make the game of his dreams, and now more than ever I’m fully confident that we’ve achieved that. I’m also really thankful to Rainy, his partner Lauryn, and the whole SunnySide community for welcoming me and letting me add my own ideas and designs to SunnySide, and also being so patient with me when I maybe didn’t do the best job. I never thought I’d have the opportunity to be so creative and to share myself with so many people in such a personal way, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what the future of RainyGames looks like. <3 <3 (And shout out to Kevin for being the best partner ever, for keeping me fed and watered and making sure I actually sleep <3 ) If you decide to buy SunnySide and play it, please do consider leaving a review. Not only does it help us understand our community, it also goes a very long way to maintain motivation and morale. Even if you have criticism to share, we want to hear it! The best thing you can do for SunnySide is tell your friends about it! Follow us on Socials, share our posts, and if you love SunnySide, please don’t be shy to tell the whole world about it! The better the game does, the more likely we’ll add more content, so let the word of mouth do its thing! If you’re interested in the Patch Notes between the last demo update and today’s release, you can find them here: https://rainygames.co.uk/patchnotes/patchnote-1511.html