Status update (Patreon)

This will probably be the last status update until v0.2 pre-release beta.

While I’m doing everything in my power to release around the month’s end, one little “problem” is that tomorrow marks the start of our Spanish Holy Week, which I think is somewhat equivalent to Easter Week in the US (?).

Anyway, as many of you veterans know, I’m supposed to be a good parent and take my daughters on her holidays to my mother’s house at the beach. As always, I’ll take my computer (with its two screens) with me to continue working over there, but I already know by experience that I won’t be as productive as I am here. Nevertheless, v0.2 remaining tasks are not “exotic” enough to cause me serious problems.

These past weeks I’ve been putting together the progress scenes chain with Cenvir, which is the main content focus of this update, and also a one-time event that it’s the first one in which you’ll see a male actually walking. That alone forced me to implement new mechanics that will be streamlined in future versions, so it’s kind of an investment.

Some more lore dialogues and another one-time event remain. They’re based on already done animations so only writing and scripting on my part is needed for those.

The only technical issue I need to address is a recurrent one: layers sorting being royally fucked up every time I add new elements to the models. Spine runtimes need to be seriously enhanced in that matter… and I’m gonna need to talk with the Unity guy at Esoteric Software about this. We can’t continue losing time with that problem. Nevertheless, I’m not going to delve deeper into that until v0.2 is released.

So, to answer the million dollar question…: not by any stretch of the imagination v0.2 will be released after the first week of April. That’s a promise.

Thing is, it should have been earlier but these holidays will disrupt my newly increased focus of these past weeks in the co-working office. It can’t be helped.

Ah, in addition to this I’m planning on running a poll about what you’d want to see in v0.3. I told you I have a road map and all, but I’d like to check on you and see if we’re on the same page. I’m kind of curious and you should have some saying at setting priorities, within reason.

Something to keep you entertained, I guess. There are already a good number of suggestions at the Discord server. If you come up with something, comment it bellow so it can be an option in that upcoming poll (open polls for when, Patreon...??).

Just bear in mind that my top priority from now on will be to reduce waiting periods between updates, even if that means reducing content, so we’re talking about manageable chunks, not things like “Make a mini game in the tavern that involves Krys being gang-banged if she doesn’t serve tables on time!”

That will be a full update when the time comes. ^_^

Anyway, thanks for reading me and supporting our sorry asses.