Hey guys.

So...it's been, like 6 months since Abra The Last Witch: Rebirth has been released.  And in that time, I started another semester of College, my life has gotten very hectic, A HECKING WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC STARTED AND CHANGED HOW SOCIETY WORKS, and I'm now stuck at home waiting for everything to blow over so I can see my girlfriend again. 

Though one thin- Ok many things have not been happening.  Every event ever got canned, and SDCC even happening is still up in the air, and many things got delayed, except Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (Shoot, I think I just jinxed it).  One of those things that hasn't come out is the post launch content for Abra The Last Witch: Rebirth.  I'm here to say that the reason it's not out yet is not the fault of the pandemic, because right now I'm fine.

Nope, the real reason is unfortunately worse.  It's because...I haven't started on it yet.

I can already feel you guys being angry at me right now, but let me tell you why.

Firstly, and most importantly, I'm very burnt out on this game.  In fact, I've been spending the last few months in pre production for my next game, and would much rather work on that.  I've been making Abra The Last Witch: Rebirth ever since my senior year of high school, and I'm almost done with my second year of college.  I honestly want to move on from the game and work on something fresh.  It's just something that creators of any media tend to struggle with.

Secondly, and this is the weird part, I can't start making it at the moment.  One part of this content is actually a colab with a good friend of mine from high school, and they (I'm saying they because I don't wanna spoil who it is for those who may not know.) allowed me to put 2 of their characters in from a project they worked on as a boss fight the vanilla version of Abra The Last Witch.  Welp, while starting work on Rebirth, I lost the package for that fight, and I had a better idea to have 1 of those 2 characters as one of the bosses at the end of boss rush mode.  I told them the idea of the boss, they loved it, but it wasn't ready for the games launch, so it became part of the post launch content.  Though they still don't know that I had to delay it.

I have a sketch, story, and boss fight designed for the character.  I want their approval before I go along with it, ...annnnnnd I don't have a way of contacting them.  I follow them on Twitter, and had many talks with them, but they don't follow my back, and as such I can't DM them.  I don't even know their email.  I'm going to try and shout them out on Twitter sometime this week.  So, if you're reading this, I'm sorry in advance for doing it this way.

As for the content itself, I don't think I can have three bosses at the end of the boss rush, instead boss rush will have 2 new at the end.  2 of the bosses were too similar to each other, so I had to cut one of them.  The content will also included a challenge mode that turns the game into sort of a puzzle game.  It will consist of 30 puzzles, and will be a marathon, with the player getting 3 chances to solve each puzzle.  After 3 mistakes, it's a game over.  You will have a limited amount of moves to solve each puzzle. There will also be a timer, with the players best time being recorded after finishing all 30 puzzles.  I'm actually very excited to work on this mode.  I'm a sucker for fun little arcade like modes in these games, and this mode was inspired by Mercenaries mode in Resident Evil 4.  It's a side mode that takes the games core mechanic without changing anything, but changes the rules to make it go from an Arcady Shmup to and Arcady puzzle game.  I can't wait to work on it, and I hope you guys look forward to playing it.

Wow, that might be the longest devlog I've ever wrote.  I'm sorry that the new content hasn't arrived yet, but I'm hoping to get it out by the summer.  

Thank you for your time.  Be safe, wash your hands, and stay indoors.  

-Luke Buckley (RandomWareStudios)