News and Announcements

02/05/2026 – Our Plans for 2026

To all our fans, supporters, and patrons,

This is Andy from Dreams Circle.

We would like to thank everyone again for their participation in the 2025 survey. Much like years past, we gleamed a lot of valuable insights from the feedback we received. We want to take this opportunity to look back at 2025 and share where we’re headed in 2026.

EVFX Paragon Retrospective

Whereas the EVFX Paragon packs released in 2024 covered some of the more common and broader themes and suggestions we received in the past, the 2025 releases covered much more of the niche and uncommon suggestions. While this approach gave birth to a lot of unique and challenging VFX that we had fun creating, we also received feedback that some of them were difficult to fit into projects.

So where does that take us this year?

During 2026, we will be renewing EVFX Paragon for a third season, featuring 8 additional releases. However, now that we’ve pretty much covered all the viable theme suggestions that we have received in the past, these upcoming packs will focus on more orthodox and traditional ideas. While they are keeping to the Paragon format, we envision these to effectively be “Version 2.0” of the original EVFX Slash, Strike, Pierce, etc. Please look forward to their releases starting in March!

POLISH Retrospective

While we had the idea of creating non-battle-related VFX early on, there was a lot of back-and-forth on deciding how we would design the product (ie. amount of content, pricing, etc.) and build a sustainable structure for the series. In the end, we arrived on the idea of the “style” x “theme” format you see today, and we are both very happy and grateful for the success of enthusiastic reception of the first pack.

As stated in the launch announcement, we will be releasing new POLISH packs in the middle of the month, so please look forward to “POLISH Classical Quests” (as voted for in the survey) in less than two weeks!

An Unexpected Opportunity

In the middle of last year, we were approached by SmileBoom, the developer and publisher of both Smile Game Builder and the more recent RPG BAKIN game engine regarding the possibility of bringing our products to the RPG BAKIN environment. Since then, we spent a lot of time learning and working behind the scenes to port over and optimize our assets for the engine.

As BAKIN users have likely noticed, that labor has borne fruit, and we released our first batch of BAKIN resources on January 28^th of this year, with many more on the way!

(We do want to note that due to the way the engine differs in handling assets, the BAKIN versions of these asset packs are NOT compatible with RPG Maker)

An Apology

Some of you may be wondering what happened with the tutorial content we mentioned in our 2025 announcement. We do want to apologize for not being able to deliver this as planned. After drafting a prototype last year, we realized that the resources we needed to invest in were higher than we had originally thought.

Between the ongoing work for Paragon/POLISH and the new work for RPG BAKIN, we regrettably do not have the bandwidth to pursue this venture for the time being and will have to delay this until further notice. Again, we sincerely apologize to everyone that looked forward to this content.

Final Wrap-up

With the release of the EVFX Forge Deviants bundle in January and Animations Fusion 2 earlier this month, we are off to an exciting start in 2026. Our plan for this year is the busiest yet, and we look forward to bringing and delighting you with even more of our work! Thank you as always for your continuous support!

Warmest regards on behalf of all of us at
Dreams Circle