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Back on Track: Might & Delight's Journey Forward



As you may know, the video game industry is weathering a storm, and the team at Might & Delight have unfortunately not been spared from it.

Earlier this year, we had to make the incredibly difficult decision to scale down our team. It has been a rough year, and we’ve been silent on our social channels as we’ve been focused on our team – both the friends that we’ve had to say goodbye to, and the team that remains. We’re still settling into our new normal, but we wanted to let you know that we are here, we´re working on our games and there are some things that we want to share with you.

We’ve been around for nearly fifteen years as an indie game developer, and we have a long, proud history of making games. We believe in game preservation and we aim to make sure our games are available to anyone who has supported us throughout the years. As we make decisions for existing titles and future projects, please know that this will be our guiding principle.

Our team is smaller now, and we will need to be mindful of how many projects we work on simultaneously to ensure that we keep our team healthy and our projects manageable. However, our intention is to keep up maintenance of our existing titles, as well as finish development of projects that have been in the pipeline for a while.

Regarding Book of Travels, our main focus for the foreseeable future will be to roll out several patches that are in the making – including fixes and community requests – and we’re also aiming to, among other things, do a balancing pass for the inventory, and look into releasing some map updates. During the next couple of months, you’ll notice our activity picking up on Discord and Steam. We want you to know that we are here, we listen to your feedback and we’ll do our very best to keep you all in the loop as we roll out future patches.

We are excited to say that we have a new game project slated for release in the fall of 2025. When we were a bigger team, we worked on the concept of this game in parallel for a couple of years, and at the time of writing this, we’re already halfway through development. We look forward to sharing more about it with you in the new year. For now, however, our main focus will be on our existing game catalogue.

Also, for all you lovely people who supported Book of Travels on Kickstarter; please keep an eye on Kickstarter updates and/or your inbox. Beyond upcoming Steam updates, we will also be sharing some information directly with all backers early next year.

Throughout this year, the one thing we’ve always come back to is the fact that we have such an incredible community. We’re not exaggerating when we say that you are the main reason that we have managed to weather all the changes of 2024, and fight for a chance to not only continue the support of our previous games, but also to be able to release something new.

A studio is only as good as its players, and we’re incredibly proud to have your support. Know that you can expect to see a lot more from us from now on.

2024 has been a turbulent and chaotic year (for many, not just in the video game industry) so we want to wish you all a peaceful and cosy end of the year. We really hope to start off 2025 with a sense of normalcy, and we want to be more active – both with our online presence, and with our upcoming patches and announcements.

Have an amazing Holiday and we’ll be in touch soon ❤
Cheers from all the developers at Might & Delight



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Steam Autumn Sale + Merchandise Store Launch



Hello,

The Steam Autumn Sale is now live and Pid is 75 % off. Almost every Might and Delight game is on sale right now, so make sure to fill in any gaps you might have in your MaD collection!

We’re also ecstatic to finally be able to say that our very own merchandise store is now live and operational. This is the first time we’ve been able to offer premium quality items with Might and Delight prints but it’s been highly requested by fans for a long while now.

Click here to visit the Might and Delight Merch store.

On day one we offer a selection of t-shirts, tote bags and mugs - but we have mouse mats and notebooks on the way, and we’re going to listen closely to what our community would like us to expand our assortment with. The t-shirts currently on offer are labelled “First Edition” on the neck tag and there are only 1000 of them available for now. We might not produce these particular prints again once they’re gone, so don’t miss out!

With that we wish you a very pleasant day and holiday season. Talk to you again soon!

Best wishes,
Oliver & the team at Might and Delight


An Update on Current Affairs at Might and Delight

[h3]Community members, Travellers, Friends[/h3]

The past months have been the most revolving, intriguing and emotional that we have ever experienced at our studio. Releasing Book of Travels in Early Access and trying to keep up with the logistical and emotional aftermath has been both fun and challenging. It's safe to say that this period has been unique for us.

It's in the wake of these events that we reach out to you with some important news. With the ambition to be both transparent and concise, we want to share the current status of our company to you all. Our goal is always for you, our community, to know who we really are – whatever that may be.

In light of the launch not going quite as well as we had hoped, we have had to make some rather big, and difficult, cutbacks to our beloved team. In order to stay alive, we have been forced to cut down our team from around 35 people to 10 people. Saying goodbye to so many skilled, trusted and loved Might and Delighters has been, without a shadow of a doubt, our most difficult test in our 11 year history.



Understandably, many of you will wonder how this is going to affect the studio going forward. We have suffered a setback and as a result the production pace of coming content WILL be affected. We want to be transparent regarding that. However, we also want you to know that the team that remains is determined and hell bent on two things: surviving and bringing the best possible content to the game. We will do whatever it takes to keep the studio going, and continue to bring it and the company forward together with you.

We want to end by sharing this sentiment; Might and Delight have always been a company that has thrived on the edge and in the margins. We have always sacrificed much in order to bring our visions to life, sometimes going against the smartest strategy in favour of a path closer to our hearts.

We have a donation-like DLC called ”Cup of Kindness” that you can pick up if you wish to further support the project. We also released The Book of Travels soundtrack and the Pid Soundtrack and a brand new Might and Delight bundle with all our 10 games and 19 DLCs, including the two fresh OSTs.

We sincerely hope that this news, grim as it is, reach you well. With hope to continue the journey together.

All the best,
Founders Anders, Jakob & Dev Team


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152340/Book_of_Travels/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1783460/Book_of_Travels__Cup_of_Kindness/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24232/Book_of_Travels_OST_Bundle__The_TMORPG__Soundtrack/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24250/Might_and_Delight_Complete_Bundle__10_Games__18_DLCs/


[h2]Help us bring Braided Shore to life![/h2]
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[h2]Want more info?[/h2]
[h3]Become a Traveller[/h3]
Sign up on our mailing list for news about our game at www.TMORPG.com.

[h3]Revealing the Early Access World[/h3]
Book of Travels is now available in Early Access on Steam. In Chapter Zero parts of the Braided Shore will be open, and among the places to visit is the gem of the region – the city of Kasa. Read more here.

[h3]Join our Discord[/h3]
Join our super friendly Discord to exchange ideas on all things Book of Travels as well as art, games and books. Join here.

[h3]Unique Stories[/h3]
When you play Book of Travels there is no linear questline, instead every player will have their own journey and stories to tell. Find out more about how our game design works to make your journey unlike any other...

[h3]What is TMORPG?[/h3]
The T in TMO signals an alternative to the more common industry standard MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) putting 'tiny' in the place of 'massive'. That means fewer meetings, which we think means more magic... Read more here: What is a TMORPG?!

We celebrate the Book of Travels EA with a Launch Bundle – save up to 70%!

[h2]Hello![/h2]

Might And Delight are thrilled about finally having launched Book of Travels into Early Access! This is the start of a new world that we'll be building together with players, and by way of a launch trailer, artist Lotta gives an overview of the phases of development that will come next in this video. We hope you like what you see!

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Take advantage of the Early Access Launch Sale and get Book of Travels for 10% off!
(Sale ends Monday, October 18th, 10 am PT.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1152340/Book_of_Travels/

[h2]Celebrate with a beautiful bundle![/h2]

To celebrate the launch of our TMORPG Book of Travels we've put a beautifully packaged bundle of Might and Delight treats. We hope you agree that this array of goods comes at a really appealing price and will give you any extra incentive you need to get on board and support Book of Travels in its fledgling week.

Save up to 70% (the discount may differ depending on what games and DLCs you already own)!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23065/Book_of_Travels_EA_Launch_Bundle__10_Games__16_DLCs/

The Book of Travels Early Access Launch Bundle and Sale ends after this weekend, so don’t snooze!

Thanks for keeping your eyes on our games and our studio here on Steam! If you've missed out on any or all of our journey to this audacious moment, please take a little peek at our blogs and videos on our news pagewe'd love to have you with us on this great adventure!
Best Wishes,

Helen & The Dev Team

News from the Shelter team + New Shelter 3 trailer!

Hello!

Today we are really excited to share this, our new trailer! We hope you like it. Much like an elephant, development is coming along slowly but surely. Currently the team are working on elephant behaviours, level design and bringing some animal NPCs to life.



Elephant Development

But the truth is that we should have been further along than this by now, and today we're writing to let you know that we've had to revise our schedule - release is now set for a realistic early 2021. We're sorry - we know that some of you have been waiting so patiently! But we're a small team and along with updating Meadow, we just don't have the resources to move much faster than this. This means that we won't be working on any new updates for Meadow until Shelter 3 is released. Pulling resources away from Meadow means that we can fully commit to our deadline for Shelter 3, however we do have plans for some fun Meadow updates when that time comes - we think it will be worth the wait!


Meadow in the Meantime

Meadow has been an unexpected high point in our journey and we want to say a huge thank you for making Meadow what it is today - it's been four years of animal joy, and we've never stopped being surprised, touched and deeply grateful for all that you have produced and shared. Thank you. 

Our recent Kickstarter means that there's been a few new faces in Meadow recently, and we'll continue to do more Play-with-the-devs events (one soon-to-be-announced for April). We also want you to know that the emotes you've been using so effectively will be gaining a sibling in our upcoming fairytale RPG, Book of Travels. Again, to all Meadow players, a huge thank you for helping us test and develop this communication system and showing us how magical it can be.

That's all for now - thank you for all your comments here on Steam! (We've been a little absent lately but we'll be around more often to say hello in the future.)

Best Wishes,

Helen and the team at Might & Delight