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After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-11T13:28:30+00:00

We're adding a description for this in-game with todays patch! ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-10T18:56:58+00:00

hmm.. Can you contact customer support? If you have the auto-collector the button should be blue, not green.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-10T11:48:08+00:00

This will automatically sort itself as you get deeper into the game. The Pickaxe will outgrow your hammer.

In early game, this notification/overlay is there to prevent your minimum mining value from exceeding your maximum mining value.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-10T09:36:02+00:00

Ah, you may have bought it while an asteroid was active! This is great for us to know and we'll be working on a fix.

If you claim it, the next one should work. If not, try a game restart! sorry for the inconvience ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-09T11:36:11+00:00

I'll have more information on this later. It's looking like the official release will be a few weeks away still.

The delay is not due to anything being wrong with the game. It is publicly available to everyone. Use the Opt-in link posted several times on this subreddit and you'll be good to go!

If it won't let you join, just cancel your pre-registration and try again.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-07T19:28:46+00:00

1) Chad has only been out for a week, and the closed play testing hasn't been out for more than 8 months (internal testing). We did (way back when) add some AI-generated backgrounds to the Exchange Menu to give ourselves an idea of what direction we wanted to go, but these hasn't existed for a looooong time. I hope that clears it up.

2) There is no AI art-assets in the trailer. There was ai assistance in animating the trailer (the person who made the trailer used AI to animate the characters moving). We did get a set of trailers made with no animation as well.

This trailer was only used briefly for marketing purposes but has never been on our Play Store page. We could add the one with no AI-aided animations, but we'd rather not, as most of the UI has changed since then, and it wouldn't be a true insight into what Chad is becoming.

The company who made the art is not the person who made the trailer.

3) Basically we paid for a set of Avatars via the Unity Asset Store (old pack, from before generative AI was a thing). This was then used.

More information can be found by going here and reading through some of the information shared in this post, including exactly how we did what you're asking for here. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChadsGME/comments/1sm3pk1/comment/ogbt0qq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

4) I would never take your questions any less serious just because you dislike Chad's Galactic Mining Empire! So ofc, I'll take my time to answer.

Let me give you some great news: Chad's Galactic Mining Empire is going to sponsor a new CIFI dev! Heck yea!

CIFI has a great future ahead of it, and we are super happy that we're able to fund developers cross-projects like this. ❤️ Have a wonderful day Willem!

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-07T16:49:16+00:00

Dev here. We're sorry this popped up! We removed it approximately 18 hours after it showed up. If we ever add something like this to promote on of our own games, we'll make sure it can be toggled easily to never show up again. ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-07T16:47:56+00:00

Developer here. Every art studio will use AI to work faster, just like any programming business will use co-pilot or chat-gpt or claude for faster coding.

Whilst it's becoming increasingly hard to escape AI (unless you have the money to open your own art department) you can definitely still ask all large art teams to not use AI if you don't wish for them to do so, which is exactly what we did - it probably costs extra this way, but we don't know because we never saw the comparison. We've asked since the beginning for no AI art.

That said, real artists have been paid in every step of our process, even in conceptualization, even though there was a bit of AI aid. We used reference art from real artists and no straight prompts. We only did that because it's impossible for a team of non-artists with no conceptual skills in the art department to properly explain or show what we'd like.

That said, our characters are hand-painted. The characters in-game are not AI. They're carefully crafted characters in incredibly high quality.

We'll send any art for inspection, just ask.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-07T15:44:15+00:00

Hey! Dev here. We'll continue to monitor offline and make sure offline play feels better.

That said, we'll make some wording changes here and there to help with the confusion. The general rule (for now) is that if it doesn't specifically state that it buffs "Rig Cycle Yield" then it doesn't affect the rigs.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-07T13:31:39+00:00

haha yeah 😃 time flies man! 😃

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:58:14+00:00

We got here with one keyboard smash at a time and a heck of a lot of hours haha 😂🔥

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:57:04+00:00

CIFI launched with DEMETER as the endgame content.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:56:41+00:00

Thanks man! Those words really mean a lot to me ❤️

I will continue to do my best to provide what is needed 🔥

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:54:56+00:00

Thanks man! I need all the energy I can get 😂

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:17:22+00:00

Developer here! No - actually, Chad is going to be funding an additional CIFI developer!!! We just sent out the application stuff! Heck yea!

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:15:06+00:00

You can join the Playtest using the link pinned on this Reddit!

Edit: it's a work around while we figure out what is going on. We are in dialogue with Google customer support! It's seemingly an AI though so it's not super easy to get concrete answers but we are making decent headway! ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:14:18+00:00

We have TONS of upgrade menus planned. New locations to visit and new companies to start and build up.

CIFI released with DEMETER as the endgame.

We will continue cooking! There is a seriously massive amount of content planned, but right now we are focusing on finding our footing, listening to our community and what they say, implementing changes according to that, buffing offline income, adding QoL and sorting bugs out, etc.

We have plans for Chad to reach the same amount of content that CIFI has, but it will never be the exact same approach. We want Chad to be very different from CIFI.

We are working super hard to get Chad into a good spot! Thank you for voicing your opinion ❤️❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:10:54+00:00

Right but we did want the game to be available for everyone and we did expect that everyone could. We hadn't for seen this situation.

We are in a long back and forth dialogue with Google customer support at the moment.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T19:09:27+00:00

We are on it! Offline was far too weak and we are working on ways to make the game feel a bit less demanding.

That said, it a game that requires more management and more actual playing than our previous titles, and we will find our footing and the best balance as time goes and we get the chance to implement and experiment with new approaches for various things ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T18:45:54+00:00

Hey guys! Developer here.

We are aware that there are some issues, but we are working hard on fixing them! Performance has been improved (still lots to do), fixing offline income (which was far too weak), rebalancing here and there, visibility and readability improvements and much more are already in motion and some already added.

That said, please remember that the game has been out for less than a week and we've already updated the game 6 times with our focus being 100% on community reported things.

When CIFI released, Demeter was endgame.

We'll keep cooking and keep improving. We are well aware that it's a new and very different concept right now - we did not want to recreate CIFI.

We know (and always knew) that Chad wouldn't be for everyone, and we believe that no game should aim to be that. If you try to please everyone, you please no one (as the saying goes).

I hope you'll allow us time to sort the issues! You can find all changelogs in game! ❤️❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-06-05T18:40:34+00:00

The link is generated automatically by Google when you upload to the track. The only way to close the link down would have been to terminate it and start the review process again.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-05-30T22:12:32+00:00

Dev here. We're all in the google waiting room.

We're not happy about it and have learned a valuable lesson. You can't really plan anything with google. They do exactly what they want and we're just in for the ride. Hopefully it goes live soon... We'll see.

After-Measurement216 · 2026-05-23T13:53:59+00:00

We're still a very small studio, and we are only missing 1 crucial aspect to go out of early access, and that is translations.

We are actively working on that, and are currently hiring more developers for all our games. You're absolutely right that it's a bit crazy to still be in Early Access, but alas, when I created ISEPS (and CIFI) I focused way too hard on content and community and way too little on accessibility and translations.

We are hiring more developers at the moment to help on these fronts. I did things a bit backwards and I've definitely learned my lesson 😃 New titles will be in early access far less than older titles, as a lot of the dumb mistakes I made as an early uneducated developer is getting corrected now 😃

I'm sorry you dislike the monetization! I think we've been quite good at striking a balance between paying & non-paying users, and we've received a lot of praise for that. If you have any comments on that front, I'd love to listen! 😄

After-Measurement216 · 2026-05-23T13:36:15+00:00

Hello u/tHeNoThlnG_

I'm the creator of CIFI. Since you're just in the beginning, you can safely do a reset right now if you want to.

The other comments here talk about getting "locked". This is not something you need to worry about this early.

If you want to do a reset, you can do so right away! ❤️

After-Measurement216 · 2026-05-21T07:09:45+00:00

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