It's almost hard to believe it, but yes! It's officially been 1 year since the launch of Alice's Reverie and, boy, a lot has happened since then.

First and foremost, we want to thank every single person who had followed the development of AR, has been supporting us, played the game, or shared it with a friend! We were both pretty nervous since Alice's Reverie is our first ever Visual Novel that we've made, but all of your love and support is what helped us get to that final release day! Now, we've been pretty quiet on our socials too, but we've been reading every comment and review you left on Alice's Reverie and it reminds us of why we wanted to make this game in the first place; for people to be able to play a cute, fantasy-inspired game where they could kiss other lesbians and feel happy <3

There was definitely a lot we learned during the (very, very long) development of Alice's Reverie, and the biggest thing would be just how much time and work goes into making a game of this size. Of course, the pandemic hitting us in the middle of development made things slow down a bit as the stress of the world made our motivation take a hit, but I'm glad we really put our noses to the grindstone to get this game done last year! 

Even though we weren't able to release it within Pride Month of 2021 like we wanted (and we had to cut out a lot of content at the end of development to try and make that deadline), I feel like we are both proud of the final product nonetheless. And, hey, now we know exactly what to do next time! Since this was the first time either of us literally even touched Ren'py (and programming in general), there were things we ended up learning that we can now apply to the next game we want to make! Next time, we'll plan things out better so there will be significantly fewer nights of lost sleep :-)

After we finished with the release of the game and the art book, we both took this year to take a break from any kind of development and focus on healing and growth of skills. We love Alice's Reverie to death, but it was pretty all-consuming with our current lifestyle. There's even something we've been doing separate from Red&Pink that we've been doing to get a breath of fresh air and we want to eventually unite those two worlds together, but now is not the time.  Until then, we're waiting until school is out of the equation forever before we start developing and publicly talking about our next game that we have planned!

But seriously, thank you all for making the 7 years it took to fully develop Alice's Reverie worth it! We glad you love our funky lil' lesbians just as much as we do <3

-Dev Lacri