Dear friend,

In about 14 days, 6 hours and 33 minutes, I will release the full version of The Merry Fairy (it will be less than that by the time I finish writing this). My heart beats faster at the thought and I have little patience to spare any minute away from my computer, to the detriment of my family, friends and beautiful garden. But the last time I 've been in the forest, my dear old troll friend whispered to me:

He does not code, but this is what got stuck in my mind when I heard him, and its a perfect format right now.

If I feel fear, it means that my focus is not in the right direction. The Merry Fairy is a creation of joy. It is my expression of love of live and hope for the future, so if I feel anything else than happiness when creating it, then somehow, somewhere, I strayed away from the path I wish to take.

So I am writing this to promise you that I am doing my best to focus. No fear, only joy, and I hope you will feel it in abundance when playing my game. With this comes another merry set of promises:

• The Merry Fairy Demo will forever be available. I have no intention of taking it down and I designed with the careful intention to be a trustworthy perpetual scrapbook journal for any magical soul out there who might have a need to spare some hard earned money. As of a few weeks ago, the development branches between the Demo and full game have parted ways and are no longer compatible, so I currently have no further demo update plans. But I do hope that in the future, I will add more content and with a little luck, I hope I made it easy enough to be able to provide that even if The Merry Fairy and The Merry Fairy Demo are two distinct creations now.

• The Merry Fairy will cost USD/ EUR 9.99 and all future game updates (of which I hope to have for as long as I live) will forever be free. The 9 is important because on the 9th of July is my birthday and this is a gift to myself. This is why I tweaked both the USD and EUR main currencies to reflect that even though the parity is not the same. All other currencies supported by Steam will be at Valve's discretion. I strongly suggest to not talk to me about currency parity unless you would enjoy a long and intricate debate about fairness, capitalism, and the current state of the world. But if you insist, please....

• Talk to me on The Merry Fairy server on Discord[discord.gg]! It has a small but absolutely wonderful community of magical souls who inspire me with their kindness and creativity every single day. It is also the platform where I am online most of the time.

• Finally, please know that I have done almost no marketing for The Merry Fairy. If you are reading this, it's the equivalent of Tik Tok's no hashtag trend: I suppose my game was meant to find you, and if it did, I sincerely hope you enjoy it enough to recommend it to your friends.

By the way, I just noticed this shiny new thing you can do in the Steam editor, and I cannot not try it! I can make a Button, like so: The Merry Fairy server on Discord[discord.gg]

I will now go back to adding more shiny stuff in the game! And every now and then, I'll be somewhere around here: