Himeko Sutori - Alpha Gameplay

Here's the May Kickstarter update for Himeko Sutori with some alpha gameplay:

May update: one year later, first peek at alpha campaign

Sometime in 2014, almost four years ago now, I was frustrated with a bad situation at work and I wanted to withdraw into a video game.  I realized however that there was something more productive I could do instead and I started channeling my efforts into Himeko Sutori.  It took up all of my free time.  It became my passion, perhaps even an obsession.  At one point I spent all of my paternity leave, not helping my wife with a newborn child, but working on Himeko Sutori, thinking that if I could put a month's progress into finishing the game maybe I would be that much closer to quitting my job.

With all of the extra money I could spare, I began hiring some other team members and my efforts became Rockwell Studios' efforts.  Shane started work on the pixel art, Kevin started on the music, and Alice started working on the portraits.

Circumstances at work required me to decide when I would take vacation time for the coming year.  My plans would depend on how much funding I could secure so in early 2015 I was forced to launch Himeko Sutori's ill-fated first Kickstarter.  We fell short of the funding goal, but we persevered.  For over a year we kept developing the game as circumstances allowed.

Then in April 2016 we launched a much better Kickstarter.  Your faith in us launched us to our funding goal and in May 2016 we ended the Kickstarter with nearly $11,000 to fund the game.

One year later, we are pleased to show you the first glimpse of the test campaign that we have been building toward.  You can see about half an hour of gameplay condensed into our latest video:

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