Hello to all of my players in the community, it's David and I'm back with another update for you guys. I wish that I could say that it's good news for ATG (Arena of the Gods) however unfortunately I've recently had to put the game on a temporary hiatus as I've gone solo and no longer work with the game's old coder Mixtape for many personal reasons and instead have chosen to continue not as Craptop Studios, but under a new name for my brand, A3 Industries. He and I had multiple reasons why things didn't work out and it's for the best both for me, for Arena of the Gods and for A3 Industries, that we split up as a team so I don't regret how things turned out in that regard.

However in terms of what this means for you, first and foremost ARENA OF THE GODS IS NOT CANCELLED. I have such a deep love for this game and the story I wrote for it, it's characters, and the whole universe that it takes place in, that I could never cancel it. It'd be like watching a beautiful sunset at noon. It just would never sit well with me and wouldn't be fair to all of you who have waited so patiently for the game to finally start to become what it was advertised as. However as an apology to everyone I kept waiting, all of you who own the game will receive my new game, 1v1 Me when it releases on steam free of charge. I've linked some early development gameplay videos of it below but to keep it short it's a multiplayer hack and slash/top down shooter where you use a sword, a gun, cleverly placed dashes, quick wits, and lightning reflexes to cut your enemy into pieces. It's meant to be an extremely simplistic game in its gameplay but full of tiny quirks and strategies that separate a beginner from a master.

While we still worked together on Arena of the Gods, Mixtape and I both filled different roles on the team. He was the game's coder and I was the artist/storywriter/original creator of the game's concept/etc , so when I went solo, I was missing the role of a coder and had to fill that position myself. I knew for a fact that I could learn to code when I put my mind to it but making a game like Arena by myself with zero budget and zero help wasn't really feasible while I have a full time job like I do now, so in the meantime I decided that the best thing for the game would be to earn some funds on the side to help pay for all of the necessary costs with the game's development to speed things along and then come back to the project when I was better suited to handle everything on my own. This is exactly why I decided to start on the development of 1v1 Me to both educate myself more on coding and use the final game to generate funds for ATG's development. Recently my apartment was robbed however and my computer was stolen so I'll have to restart my work on 1v1 Me entirely. That said, I remember everything I did to make it so once I get a new computer, it will be done fairly quickly but I'll have to wait until then to start back on the game's development. Luckily a large amount of my ATG files were backed up so I didn't lose TOO MUCH except a number of text documents which had a lot of the game's core mechanics written down but all of those are in my head still so I'll just have to tap back into that wealth of knowledge to remember it all.

Anyways thank you to the few of you who purchased the game in it's early access state and for those of you who took the time to read all of this. I may be down but I'm not out and neither is 1v1 Me or Arena of the Gods, that's for sure. I'll see you guys in my next devlog :)

- A3 Industries Founder, David Henry