diff --git a/src/arcade/__init__.py b/src/arcade/__init__.py
index 4b430af..d723ffe 100644
--- a/src/arcade/__init__.py
+++ b/src/arcade/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # @author Daniel McCoy Stephenson
 """arcade: one static host for every browser game (Stephenson-Software RFC 0006)."""
 
-__version__ = "0.6.1"
+__version__ = "0.6.2.dev0"