P.S. We'll give away a few keys on the streamːsteamhappyː
The day has come! The game is available!
Dear friends! This day has arrived, the game is available to everyone (we hope that at least 5 people really waited for this moment) ːsteamhappyː
Highly Likely is our first but, hopefully, not last project. From the first days of working on the project, it was very important for us that the players enjoyed the game, so we approached the matter with great responsibility and enthusiasm. We have worked and continue working tirelessly!
We are excited, we worry and believe, and also sincerely hope that you have met the game with interest and appreciate our efforts, as well as share with us all those emotions that overwhelm us.
We will be grateful if you kindly agree to share your impression of the game with us. Your opinion will be invaluable support for us. Feedback or a personal assessment, no matter how critical they may be, will allow us to look into the future with confidence, will inspire further fruitful work.
We would like to say a few words about the delayed release.
First of all, our game is a story with a fascinating and rich tragicomic plot divided into acts. It is planned that the game will consist of 6 acts. Initially, our plan was to release 4 acts as the base game, and then continue working on the acts 5 and 6, which would be released simultaneously a few months later as a DLC. But, after some thought, we decided not to divide the game, but to release all the 6 acts at once. We hat to decide if we should postpone the release of the game or release the game into early access with 4 acts, and continue working on the remaining acts after that. You already know our decision!
IMPORTANT!!! Dear players, we want to be honest with you from the very first day, so read this information carefully!
We really want you to have only positive emotions from the game process, but, like in any game, especially one which is still in the process of its creation, there are still a lot of bugs in our game that we work on daily, but our team consists of only nine people, and it’s unlikely that we can do everything quickly, and in this regard we are counting on your patience and understanding.
By the way, you can report the bugs you find in the game HERE
On the other hand, if you are one of those who, on the contrary, likes to participate in the process of creating or testing games, you want to offer your ideas, help with catching bugs, just give advice and share your opinion, then without hesitation purchase the game and welcome to the team! Yes, yes, to the team, and these are not just windy talk, because we will finish the game and release it together!
With deep respect to you, the Mikola Games team.
The Tale of How Our Colleague had a “dialog” with Feminists
Hello, dear friends!
We decided to share one story that happened not so long ago, and believe me, it is to be continued...
You all probably know cases when representatives of the feminist movement (or other movements) expressed their dissatisfaction with certain games, sometimes creating a scandal out of thin air and thereby jeopardizing the reputation of developers, leaving a negative mark on the team and project that often put their soul, time and money into it.
Can you say honestly, you also probably thought that all these were accidents and all these “Robin Hoods” are fighting an open-minded battle, guided exclusively by objective reasons and their inner convictions? As it turned out, this is far from the true, at least the experience of our comrade is an evidence to this.
We will tell you one story from which many of you will learn something new about this business. You’ll be able to take a peek behind the curtain of this lair of hypocrisy, cynicism and double standards.
Our story is about how one of our employees “talked” with representatives of the feminist movement. The word «talked» is not in quotation marks by accident, since there was no communication as such, but instead there was a very funny story…
7. Artem_Orenburg Unfortunately, there were some screw-ups on our part. For example, we planned to give away 6 $100/3000 RUR giftcards, but we actually raffled 7. Well, it would be stupid to backpedal, we’ll have to be more careful in future!
ːsteamhappyːWinners of gift cards with a face value of $ 50 / 1500 RUR:ːsteamhappyː
Along with that, at the very end of the stream, we also gave away additional 5 gift cards with a face value of $ 100 / 3000 RUR. It was a separate nomination from the hosts who chose the winners at their discretion for the best fulfilment of the third paragraph of the conditions of the draw: “Write a funny phrase related to our game using its name, Highly Likely”.
Additionally, we want to thank Wolterhon for helping us conduct the live broadcast!
In the end, we want to once again say a huge THANKS to all of you and wish you all the best! We hope that we see you all again very soon!
Best Regards, The Mikola Games Teamːsteamhappyː
P.S. Now a little about sad things. Friends, our stream yesterday began 1 hour later than planned. After we were able to get it running, we explained the reason. This happened due to technical problems, namely, due to the settings of the broadcast itself, which we decided to conduct directly on the Steam website. But, this is not all the problems, as it turned out after the end of the event – the stream wasn’t recording :-(
We hope that all those viewers who watched the live broadcast will verify the list of winners, which most likely may be called into question by comrades who doubt our integrity.
In addition, we wrote to Steam support and explained the problem, we hope that they will help us in this matter. Perhaps they have records on their servers and they will kindly provide them to us!
Giveaway results! Live!
Dear friends, only a few hours left before the start of the stream during which we’ll announce the winners of the giveaway!
Do not miss the stream: January 17 at 19:30 (Moscow time)
We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to everyone who shared news about the giveaway and helped us to tell you about it.
We wish you all victory and a good mood! ːsteamhappyː
P.S. In order to brighten up our event, we invited one of our good friends to host the stream, she has a wonderful voice and a greatsense of humorːsteamhappyː
Steam Gift Card Giveaway from Highly Likely Developers
Hello dear friends!
To celebrate the upcoming release of the game, we decided to run a giveaway of Steam digital gift cards with a total cost of more than $3000.
But there’s more! During the live stream, we will give away additional five $100 gift cards.
And that's not all! In addition to the gift cards, we will also give away the game keys.
Giveaway rules:
Share this post with your friends no later than January 16! To do this, click "Share" under this post, then "Share directly to my status" and then "Post". This news will appear in your Steam profile activity feed.
Write a funny phrase about our game using the name of the game “Highly Likely” in the comments to this post to confirm your participation.
The draw will take place on January 17 during a live stream. The time of the stream and the link will be announced additionally. Follow the news!
Winners will be selected randomly using the service https://www.random.org/
The cards of the lower value will be given away first, the $100 cards last!
IMPORTANT! If the winner does not meet one or more of the 3 above requirements, they will automatically drop out of the participants and another winner will be chosen. Prizes will be awarded within 3 days in accordance with the rules for transferring Steam gift cards.
Dear friends, make sure that your steam profile in not private in order to receive your prize!
We wish you luck and good mood!ːsteamhappyː
P.S. We will be very grateful if you share this news with your friends on Facebook or Twitter or Reddit. All you have to do is click “Share” under this post, then “Share on Facebook”, “Share on Twitter”, “Share on Reddit”.
*We run 2 giveaways: One for Russian-speaking players, and another for players from all countries except Russia and CIS. The total number of cards in both giveaways is 105.