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We just hit 30,000 wish lists on Steam today and we were like, where did this come from?

Because we haven't like really been doing any marketing

recently and it seemed there was partly that I spoke at length about like my biggest design

philosophy on stream recently but um a lot of it I think has probably come from people all

kind of finishing Silk Song around the same time and being like, I would like more of this thing.

Oh, I've heard this is like this thing.

And so we just got a, yeah, we've got a bunch of comments of people being like,

when's the game coming out?

Please come out soon and we're like, oh.

Not that soon.

It's really, like there is a genuine art to like tracking where wish lists come from. Yeah, this one's odd. The number of times we'll jump on, we'll be on a call, and it'll just be like there'll have been, like, a bunch of spikes on, um, on next game, uh, Amber Spire. They'll just be like a lump of wish list ads. And it's like, well, what was that?

And we'll trace it back and it'd be like,

oh, was it one specific YouTube video?

Yeah.

There was this article.

Like, you,

but sometimes they are just genuinely mysteries.

Like we don't know where they come from.

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