Dear Father,

I am writing from the Trenches at Gaslamp. The final, long, hard push for Early Access is almost upon us; Major Jacobsen says we’ll go over the top any day now. At night I sleep with my keyboard as is Tradition, and think of home. How is home? Where is home? Does it still exist? Are the cats alive?

Will this war ever end?

The men tell me that they have assembled a Changelog; I have annotated it for you so that you may know that we are fighting the Brave Fight here at home, and that soon there will be Release In Our Time. I am pretty sure that Mr. Whitman now has Trenchfoot in his Shoulderblade, and will have to have it Removed with a Scalpel. Mr. Best seems like he will not last much longer; his delerium is fevered and he talks about going back to University and finishing his Doctorate. Meanwhile, they fight the good fight, and many small tickets have been fixed including the fact that doors claim to cost one plank, and do not. It is the duty of every man to care for his tickets, that we may seek victory over The [REDACTED].

Much of what we do involves Polishing the Codebase. Most recently, we have dealt with a variety of Exciting Crashes, which threatened the Stability of the Great Mission. Removing people from a work crew, then putting them back into a work crew, then killing them, then eating them – will the complexity of these systems never cease?! What do they think they are doing at the Home Office?

Meanwhile, Dear Father, I have added Cults to the game again. Perhaps it is a sign of my battle-weariness, or the ringing in Pvt. Nejat’s Ear, but the voices have been dictating feature requests to us again.

The great reworking of the Character Window is said to be done any day now. Please thank the fine folks at the Victory Garden for their Icons.

Please remember me to all the fine folks at home; I have attached the Changelog for Revision 23 so that all may see our fine progress. Even once we have reached Early Access, the great work is not done, and it is vital that England – sweet England, and the rest of the Colonies under the Dominion of Her Majesty – understand that this is a long war, fought through attrition, and that it is as a result of our labours that we shall reap the bounty of victory at some future, glorious Steam Sale.

Yr Obdt Svt,

Cpt. Nicholas Vining

Changelog to-date for Revision 23