Still alive, still relatively healthy both physically and mentally. Lost many friends but now helping to bring the fight on enemy territory and hopefully change the future of our war.
Thank you all for you support, I've been feeling it all these two years in the army as a boost for my morale and financially through the sales of Titan Chaser and my other games, and it helps significantly.
Can't wait for the time I can make games again. Yearly selfie as a proof I still exist. Cheers to all, over and out!
My 2023 Life Update
August 25 marks exactly 1 year since I joined Ukrainian Armed Forces to defend my home from russian invasion. So I hope you understand why I don't have any updates on released or upcoming games. This year I trained in Great Britain (thanks friends for all you help to us!), and then served in relatively safe places, doing mostly paperwork, until recently I moved to the frontlines to work with UAV data and artillery.
But more importantly, few days ago russians killed my best friend. He died as a hero, in battle, and gave his life for a possibility to evacuate civilians from occupied village. So my next year in armed forces won't be just "serving", I am gonna be as effective in driving russians from our land or burying them here as I can possibly be, in his memory, and because they robbed me of a life full of joy during our daily walks with our dogs with him and his wife. So you are not gonna see any gamedev-related news from me for another year at least, or however long this hell will continue. Every copy of my game bought by you will help me to keep my sanity as I'm gonna use this money on something that brings me joy between the work. I'm not sure how often I would be active here on Steam, so if you want to know if I'm alive and well from time to time, you can check my twitter (or X, whatever it would be in a few months)
Thank everyone who supported me for all these years and will do so in future, without you I would be entirely different person. Cheers, Stas
My life update
As you may know, Russia invaded my country, Ukraine, on February 24, 2022. Since that day I was helping my country as a volunteer, driving military and humanitarian aid, refugees and journalists. I've seen with my own eyes a destruction made by russian missiles, broken families and pain that is going to stay with us for generations. Between all that I had no energy left to publish some statement or to work on my games.
Also, maybe you know that Steam blocked all payments to Ukrainian developers, and that doesn't help at all in surviving russian invasion - a lot of people thought they have passive income and stopped working to defend our land only to see their payments indefinitely delayed. I hope Valve will fix this as they promised until the end of April, so we don't need to be worried about our back while facing enemy.
With all that, I just want to share my plans with you - I feel ready to continue game development, at least few days a week when I have some free time from helping Ukraine to win this war. If you want to help Ukraine too - please consider to push your governments to impose tougher sanctions on Russia and stop buying their oil and gas - because that money are feeding russian war machine to kill Ukrainian people. Thank you for your help and support, I know the majority of the world are helping us!
Hi folks! After a lot of trying I finally managed to fix some Wandering Titans related bugs, so in this update you'll find:
First of all, thanks to wonderful volunteers Noelia García Peinado and Pablo Torregrosa Parra, Titan Chaser got Spanish localization
Wandering Titans are no longer wander outside the map leaving you alone without ability to end the day - they cycle back and forth until you manage to deal with them
Roar of the titans should sound okay, without interruptions and glitches. Please report if it still occurs, so I can denounce my coding skills and be sad about it again
Car engine sound distance has been reduced, so you can enjoy some nature sounds without running too far away from your car
Thanks again for your incredible support, when I started the development I never thought of 15 thousands of you playing my little experimental game and getting more than 270 Very Positive (and heartwarming) reviews from you.
I hope you will continue to enjoy Titan Chaser (or remember it if you finished it already) while I craft something new and entirely different for you.
Cheers!
1.4.0: Most common issues fixes and stability improvements
First of all, I'm proud to announce we crossed the line of 11K players who played Titan Chaser and they left more than 220 reviews with Very Positive rating, this is huge and I thank you all!
With this update I tried to fix the most common issues:
Kraken bug where it would go to the Bright-City instead of towards you should be fixed (I can't reproduce it now, but maybe you will still encounter it, please report in that case)
Mouse should behave smoothly now, a lot of players experienced stutters and freezes during some actions
Some players experienced the game slowed down after repeatedly going in and out of the pause menu - there still might be some problems but nowhere near as it was before
Small stability fixes, fps might improve depending on your system
That's all for now, thank you again for playing my game!
1.3.0: Chinese and Spanish-LA localizations, tweaks and fixes
In this update you will find:
Chinese localization, thanks to Xiangzhe Zhao;
Spanish LA localization, thanks to Jared Téllez;
When loading level from menu it always starts from the motel now. Checkpoints are only for returning to them during the game now, many players found starting from checkpoints confusing, especially after some time without playing the game;
Zooming is stronger now, so it should be easier to read map and other texts in the world space;
End Credits problems with Cyrillic fonts should be fixed now.
And thanks again to all of you - there is more than 9000 Titan Chaser players at the moment and almost 200 Very Positive reviews, I'm happy so many people dig my creation!
