Hello everyone! Congrats to you guys on the upcoming year 2025!

Stefan wishes you all the best for the New Year - lots of goodies and joys, and a good mood, of course! We prepared a special art with him, combining traditionally three holidays in one - his birthday on December 24, Christmas on December 25 and New Year's Eve on the night from December 31 to January 1

The New Year will bring you the long-awaited update of "Run, Kitty!", and we will finally tell you about our future plans in the annual article. We promised to combine the year-end summary of 2023 and 2024 together, so you can read if anyone interested!

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Hello everyone, guys. This is Bertran Way, the founder of "Strong & Furry" team.

It's been a while since we've seen you in person, and that was due to a lot of reasons, mostly personal, but I'm here again, and I know you're really looking forward to some good news! So thank you for still being with us and patiently waiting for news about new games and updates to existing ones.

I'll combine the summary of 2023 and 2024 in this letter, so that there's more nice news in contrast!

The whole of 2023 was actually a very tough year for me personally in every sense. I had neither moral strength nor any desire to develop anything in terms of the development team's activities. I'll be honest, at the end of the 2023 year I even had thoughts of freezing all activities and development for some time, but fortunately, I changed my mind when 2024 came, and I did the right thing.

However, we still managed to release some cool social media art in 2023: 

 💙 Birthday Art for furry artist Metokuron 

 ❤️ Birthday Art for furry artist Traver (Traveler009) 

 💞Valentine's Day Art 2023 

 🍑 Fan-art with Bandit from "Bluey" 

 🥂Art for the second anniversary of "Run, Kitty!" 

 🎄New Year's Eve Art with Stefan 2023-2024

And we also had a "A Steamy Training" fanfic 📘

As for 2024, I decided at the beginning of the year to start develop a small update for "Run, Kitty!", as the players have been asking for it, well a lot, since 2022. Plus the English translation will be reworked, thanks to your feedback. So with the update you'll finally be able to enjoy the game even more!

Update 1.1, which is scheduled for release in 2025, will feature a small new story with three new CG-arts, two of which are... Ahem... Well, you'll see for yourself 😅 These are the ones that are taking a huge amount of time because they are very difficult to work on, so thanks for still waiting!

I realize that some of you may be frustrated with how slow we are moving. Someone manages to release a lot of games in that time, while we've only been working on the "Run, Kitty!" update after 3 years of release, even though we have plans for future games as well. In fact, I've already talked about the reasons for this in previous annual articles, but it should be noted that all our team have their main jobs, and we work on the update as we have free time, which we don't have much of. So we ask for your understanding in this matter. We don't have a chance to do all this as our main job yet, but we hope that someday we will be able to ❤️.

After the release of the new update of the game, we want to focus on the concept of the next game, which will be with Stefan in the main role. We already have ideas, and I think by the end of 2025 we'll be able to share news on that!

Also, depending on whether or not the 1.1 update for "Run, Kitty!" is successful, we also plan to do a 1.2 language update in the future, adding Chinese and Japanese. In fact, we've been planning this for a while now, but we need to finalize the quality of the English translation first, and that's really important.

What about 2024, we've released a couple of nice social media artworks too: 

 🍀 Art for the third anniversary of "Run, Kitty!" 

 🎁 New Year's Eve Art with Stefan 2024-2025

There were many times less arts this year, because we threw all of our energy into the art for the "Run, Kitty!" update. We hope you enjoy the update! I think we'll be able to show you some sketches and work in progress in the new 2025. The hardest part is the art component because of the many variations, and one CG art will be very large in their number.

In fact, that's all the summary of the two years I'd like to say. Happy New Year, dear pups, and wish you all the best in it!

Regards, 

 Bertran Way 

 Strong & Furry CEO

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Happy New Year, woof! 🎁🎉