News and Announcements

03/01/2024 - Our Plans for 2025

To all our fans, supporters, and patrons,

This is Andy from Dreams Circle. 

Thank you again for the overwhelming participation in our 2024 survey. Like last year, we’ve pored over your feedback and have arrived at a good sense of where we’re headed for the rest of 2025. Below is an outline of what you can expect in the coming months.

Regarding Social Media and Marketing

1. Since X/Twitter implemented its non-opt-out AI policy towards the end of last year, we have been contemplating migrating to a new platform. Based on the survey, most respondents preferred Bluesky (38% majority) over the other options, so we will be shifting our announcements over there. This move will be gradual, and we’re looking to phase-out of X/Twitter this year and be exclusively on Bluesky by 2026 the latest. We will be making a formal announcement once this is ready, so stay tuned and be sure to follow us there once we open shop!
2. We will be tagging our products on itch.io to make them more accessible and easier to find in searches.

Regarding Product Lineups

1. The EVFX Paragon series has been met with great acclaim and praise, and we will continue to expand this series. This year we will be adding 8 more packs to the collection, starting with EVFX Beast Tamer, which releases TODAY, so go check it out!
   
   
2. Animations Fusion has proven to be one of our fastest selling products and have also received overwhelmingly positive feedback. We will also be expanding this series to provide new spritesheet assets to developers using non-Effekseer-compatible engines. Though details are still in the works, we will be releasing more of these in 2025 as well.

Regarding Our Release Schedule

1. We will continue to release our main “monthly feature” on the 1^st of every moth (barring extenuating circumstances). Since our work with the Iconography and SummonFX Lite series has been completed, however, we will not be releasing new products on the 15^th of each month this year. Instead, as we have some exploratory ideas we want to test out, we will reserve this date to push out these more experimental concepts when they’re ready.

Regarding Tutorial Content

1. Overall, around 80% of respondents have shown interest in some form of tutorial content. We will begin our exploration on this front with written content focusing on specific tasks to start, such as how to render your own spritesheets in Effekseer!
   
   
2. Depending on how these tutorials are received and how resource-intensive they are, we will consider delving into video-form content in the future.

Final Wrap-up

                While we had some twists and turns at the end of last year and it took us a while to get here, we feel that we’re ready to go full-steam ahead in 2025. As always, we thank you for your continued support and hope you’ll journey alongside us for 2025 and beyond!

                …And remember to check out EVFX Beast Tamer while you’re here!

Warmest regards on behalf of all of us at

Dreams Circle