After a couple of weeks working on performance improvements for the demo, the first patch is finally here! We know a lot of people had issues playing the game due to poor optimization and we're really sorry for that. We worked really hard since the release of the demo to make sure most of these issues were dealt with. We've made many changes to how the levels are loaded and this should reflect in much better performance. We also made some small changes to the game in general, like level design adjustments and tweaking some materials. Here's a list of all the changes:

• Levels are now loaded separately with multiple threads. This makes the game run much smoother, at the expense of adding a very short loading screen between the levels.
• All materials are now correctly loaded and cached on load. This should prevent short freezes at the beginning of the demo.
• Several objects have been optimized to be less taxing on the performance.
• Added a tutorial for the Photo Mode.
• Hidden objects now have more visible edges.
• Beam selector now only activates once the player reaches its tutorial.

One small setback is that, due to so many changes, the game saves from the earlier version aren't compatible with the new version. So if you played before, your progress will be lost (the game doesn't delete the old save, though, so you can always go back to the previous version and not lose your progress). We'll do our best to make sure this doesn't happen from now on!

That's all for now, we hope everyone enjoys this update. If you haven't played yet, go give it a try and if you already played, go play again! See you next time! 💗🧡💛💚💙💜