Ok this is very exciting to share, because I think I found something BIG.

So, as we all know, Dan recently shared a cryptic tweet, consisting of only ":)" - a smiley face emoticon. Normally, people wouldn't make a tweet consisting of only :), especially if they are a game developer known for hiding secrets in their games, so this is obviously teasing something to come.

However, that's where most people stop. I knew there had to be something else, though, so I kept digging into it. And what I found was AMAZING. Even I can't believe Dan has hidden something like this in just a smiley face. Let me explain what I found, and how I did it.

When I saw the :) tweet, I immediately went into an ASCII to Decimal conversor to see if there was anything. As it turns out, yes, there was.

:) translates to "58 41" in ASCII. If you add those two numbers, you get 99. Just one number away from 100, but that's not the focus here. Translating 99 back to ASCII, we get "c".

Now here I was at a stump. I didn't know where to continue. But there HAD to be something hidden here. It's Dan Salvato, after all. He always does stuff like this, right??? Remember when he hid clues in fanart he didn't even have any control over? That was surprising! (My personal theory is that he mind-controlled his fans to make arts with hints about Project Libitina).

So I went back to the tweet to find more clues. I immediately though to look at the tweet date and time. I found something that can't be a coincidence: it was posted in December 15th, at 02:15 AM. The number 15 HAD to mean something. But I couldn't think of anything. So I just gave up for a bit.

HOWEVER! Today I woke up with an amazing idea: I translated "c15DanSalvatoLibitina" to base64, which gave me "eXVyaSBpcyBub3QgbGliaXRpbmE=". I then put this after the projectlibitina.com domain, which redirected me to the PROJECT LIBITINA TRAILER. YES. THE PROJECT LIBITINA TRAILER.

AND HOLY CRAP THIS IS AWESOME. HERE'S A LINK TO A MIRROR I MADE IN CASE IT GETS TAKEN DOWN I AM TOO EXCITED

THIS GAME WILL BE AMAZING. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY FINALLY CONFIRMED YURI IS LIBITINA. MATPAT WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT SOMEHOW.