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It's January 9th 2025 and this game hasn't been abandoned, but development is ticking along very slowly.

We're long overdue to put out some kind of dev log or update on Wrestling With Emotions 2. Unfortunately the situation is rather sad, and we don't really like needing to share sad news.

The TL:DR is that our publisher run into financial difficulties and had to stop funding all their unreleased projects, including WWE2. This put us in a very difficult situation. We desperately wanted to finish the game and release it, but had lost our funding and publishing support to do that. We didn't want to rush out a game that we weren't happy with. We also didn't know how we were going to keep Team Lazerbeam going without that support.

The good news is that we were able to get a lot of interest in one of our other titles, Shroom and Gloom. This meant we could not only keep our doors open, but our full time team has been able to grow. And for the first time in 10 years of making games together, a Team Lazerbeam title has broken out of the alternative, punk game space and captured the interest of  the wider indie game community. We're super grateful for everything, but it does mean WWE2 is currently very much on the back burner.

We're totally committed to bringing this beautiful game to people when the stars align, although we have no idea when that might be.

Thanks for checking in, and for your interest in Wrestling With Emotions 2. Hope you'll love the final game when it's eventually launches.

Hi.

Sorry to hear you're struggling. Are you able to download other games on itch?

Liked!

Liked!

Thanks for checking in. Great to hear you're enjoying the game.

Confirming that we are well aware that the resurrection on Lazarus is currently very underwhelming and unclear. We're currently working on improving higher priority aspects of the game, but Lazarus will totally get some love when the time is right!

Great combo!

Does this happen every time? What version of the game are you on?

Thanks so much for the great feedback, and for making this Let's Play. Stoked to watch it!

Not sure - we're not aware of any other users having this issue. Maybe a problem with how you're unzipping the file? Or maybe the download was interrupted?

Thanks for letting us know. Please could you check the version of the game you're running? We were aware of some issues like this in the first versions of the prototype, but it was resolved many versions ago.

Thank you so much! We're so happy that we get to keep working on this thing!

BOAT CATS! BOAT CATS! BOAT CATS!

Hi! Thanks for the comment, and letting us know about those issues. We're aware that it's possible to find lots of infinite loops in explore phases. We'll have to update some of the cards to prevent this in the future, but please enjoy those infinites while they're still possible!

Haha! Thanks for the soul!

Thanks so much for passing this along to us. We've added this to our known issues and are working on trying to replicate this issue so we can resolve it.

Yeah, this is how things currently work. Could be something we could improve on in the future, but as a tiny team with very little time to make this prototype we've had to chose our battles when looking at which sides of the game to focus on.

Thank you! This kind of encouraging feedback means so much to us!

Thank you so much! So god to hear that!

Nice! There are currently some wild infinites to be found in Explore mode!

Not sure what this means - did you leave this comment on the right game? What is the "rotting bone passive"? What does it mean to "replace the bones"?

Haha, it's easy to miss!

We did play around with making Rations +1 energy for 0 cost, but rather went with it having some cost, forcing you to be mindful about when you play it!

Hi. This isn't a bug; rations has a cost of 1 energy, so using it will increase your current energy by 1.

Thank you for playing, and for the encouraging feedback!

Thanks.

BTW, the version number is in the file name, or can be seen in the bottom left of the screne if you pause the game.

Hi! Glad you're enjoying the game - great to hear.

Thanks for letting us know about this bug. Could you check what version of the game you're on? This issue sounds like something that was resolved quite a few versions ago.

Woo! Congratulations!

Thanks homie! We're so stoked to keep working on this game!

WOOOOOOO!!!

Thank you Mandy! We're so stoked!

Woo! Thanks!

Thanks for the support! Appreciate it!

Thank you so much! So encouraging to hear that!

We're on the cusp of dropping an update to the prototype, so please keep an eye on the project!

Try lowering the resolution, or disabling AO if your machine struggles with the game.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Yes, all the elements are illustrated 2D elements that we place in 3d space.

So great to hear! Glad your enjoying the initial prototype! Please keep an eye on the project as we keep working on it!

Awww, this is such a lovely comment to receive - thank you!

Hi! Great to hear you enjoyed the prototype and high fives on beating it!

Were you playing an older version of the game when you ran into those bugs? The issue with Stay Puffed turning you into a ghost was resolved a few versions back.

Thank you so much for letting us know. We're looking at trying to fix this now.

Thanks for the added details.

Please do make sure you are on 0.4.20 as this kind of thing should be fixed. If not, we'll try see what happened and fix this in our next update.

Glad to hear you're having fun, but sorry that you're having a hard time progressing.

We're toying with the idea of making a short strategy guide video to help players that are struggling. Is that something you'd be interested in?