After one week break it's time for an update on what's happening at Colossal Order: The spring came to Finland finally with the exception of 1st of April when it was snowing (I'm not a fan of April Fool's jokes, especially when the nature is pranking you...). I got a terrible flu and have been out of the office for a couple of days. Luckily the team hasn't gotten sick yet so the game development continues!The reception for Landscaping update was very positive which makes all of us so happy! For some reason free updates are generally liked so there's a good chance there's more of those coming in the future. This week we (well, they) have continued with bugfixing and looking into smaller improvements to getting a smaller patch for you guys later this year.After we got back from our short Easter break last week we had so much fun looking into all the great entries to the Praise the Chirper Contest. I have to say that the quality and imagination really blew us away! We managed to pick the winners for the trip to visit us here in Tampere as well as the runner-ups who will receive a Colossal Goodie Bag. Yes, it is both Colossal and relatively bigThe winners are Aliaksei and Dmytro from Belarus and Ukraine respectively, who made the National Library of Belarus display Chirpy . First of all, what's up with that building and how did you get them to display anything there? This just makes me so proud and confused and amazed by the imagination to come up with the idea and to the level of execution. Aliaksei and Dmytro won the trip to visit the studio here in Tampere, a dinner with me and tickets to our Colossal Cities: Skylines party. I'm really looking forward to meeting them!The competition to win the goodie bags was fierce! The remaining 11 semifinalists were of so good quality we had a hard time picking the 4 best ones. Therefore we decided to give one more Colossal Goodie Bag and award the rest of the semifinalists with a small Chirper related gift. There was one entry that showcased excellent writing and storytelling as well as familiarity with the game that really rose above all other stories and poems we received. From the beginning of the judging I knew this entry would deserve it's creator, Joseph from England, at least a goodie bag. We all agreed Aliaksei and Dmytro had the best entry and are the winners, but for some reason this story just stuck with me. After reading Joseph's most heartwarming cover letter I decided that I want this person celebrating the success of our game with us. Being a CEO of a company has its perks, like say, doing pretty much whatever you like (this is not true, but I like to think it is). So Joseph and a friend got a special extra prize to join us at the party in April and I probably lost my seat in any future contest jury duty in the company.Other Colossal Goodie Bag winners in no specific order were Early Bird News by Heather from Ireland, one of the favourite modder Boformer's Chirper Monster mod, a great travel magazine to Chirper City by Ruben from Mexico and the cutest Chirper hat ever by Niina from Finland!What do you think, did we get it right?Cheers,MariinaThe story that won my heart: