First off, thanks very much to everyone who downloaded and tried HYPERBOLIC Arcade Trading on itchi.io! 

I'm afraid that progress has been slower than I would have liked over the past couple of months due to COVID-19 and other projects taking priority. My apologies for that to anyone who is following the project. 

In view of the slow progress and to hopefully garner more feedback and evaluate where we go from here, I've decided to go ahead and expand early access to Steam with the game as-is, and that should happen as soon as the game is approved by Valve - I guess sometime over the next few days.

I've decided to price HAT at $4.99 on Steam to that the people providing feedback are most likely to purchase the final version. I think there's $5 of value in the current version and that of course buys a seat to  provide input as development continues. The plan is to gradually raise the price to full (TBD) price as I expand and improve the game over time, so getting in early may pay off later! (In the short term, I plan to update the price data sets with data from Alpha Vantage, implement an early in-game tutorial, and likely simplify the mechanic for placing orders.)

For parity (and because Valve requires price matching with all other sites), I'll be raising the price to $4.99 on itch.io, effective immediately. I plan to keep both the Steam and itch.io versions up to date as we move forward.

Well, that's about it for this update. I hope to be back with another one shortly and please keep your fingers crossed for the Steam Early Access!