October 2025 Monthly Studio Report

The APK is ready to go on itch and we're pressing onward! Time for another report! What a big month it has been. All of it shook up a bit when Unity released information on the security flaw. A lot of devs were scrambling and for us, since we haven't released yet, we were hoping there was a patch that wouldn't include updating the Unity editor as if we did that, we'd have to redo the entire game all over again... Thankfully, Unity did release a patch and it has been applied to all versions of The Father's Story. Those on the Steam store are updated, as well is those on itch. Speaking of itch, we're going to be making it our defacto release for the Android APK. While Unity does do a full Google Play Store export version, we experienced enough of the nightmare that is the Play Store before. We'd need to prepare a free to play version with ads for it to work there and right now that is not on our to-do list. Testing did begin on the APK with good reports coming back but it wasn't without issues as there are some issues just getting all the controls to function the same. Also we had some resolution problems which did get resolved but, we're likely going to have to put a disclaimer on the APK since we do not have enough versions to test with. As for iOS, that is currently being worked on in Xcode. Which is not as simple as just making an APK. However, Unity did export a solid build that we're figuring out. Thankfully, it doesn't seem as bad as getting the Mac OS build notarized. When the iOS version goes up, it'll also be made active for Mac OS too for the App Store. However, we do need to get it in testing first which is on the list of things to do in November. It's last minute crunch time as we're now a month away from launch. At times we've thought about it and considered just releasing early but, we're glad we gave it more time. Having the Unity stuff needing to be patched, wasn't on our plans. Alright, that's it for the month. Have a great Thanksgiving to our US fans! We'll see you again on launch day!