July 17, 2022

 Hello to our amazing community.

I wanted to put out this update to let you know about a change in the release date for Spellbound: The Magic Within. Spellbound: TMW will now be released in September 2022 approximately 30ish days after its intended release date.

There are a couple of reasons for this change and at Wyrdren transparency is important to us so we thought we would keep you in the loop.

Number one, due to some very overly cautious calculations when planning our budget, we now have some spare funds. We have a couple of places this can be reallocated and improve the game and want to take the extra month to really add some finesse.

Number two, we do not do crunch, we never have and never will. The extra pieces we want to polish up could have been added before the original release date but this would have been with increased pressure on the team. Our team is very, very small even for an indie. We have one person working on game development and one on socials and community, crunch would be detrimental/impossible for the two of us to take on without serious consequences and it’s something I as director am unwilling to put onto the team. I want a sustainable workplace so that we can bring you even more games in the future.

I know that our community will understand us taking the extra month as it will mean an even better game. Both Annie and I appreciate all of the support you have been showing us on social media and at events. We are both gamers and we know how disappointing it is when a game's release date is changed but we hope that you will understand that we want to keep the team from burning out and to bring you the best adventure possible.

Thank you again for all the love, Stay Wyrd. xx