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Dev log 25 + opinion poll
🕑 Added 2019-07-23 20:42:56 +0000 UTC
Hello folks, being a while since last dev log but we still working on the big update.
Big part of work currently is locations, though we did big preparation on other fronts as well. Our demands to location quality went higher with our experience, more details, more things to explore, just generally more carefully drawn stuff. Which can be deceptive that work got slower, it's just tasks got more demanding.
We are really holding ourselves back from cutting too many corners or rushing for releasing content in unfinished state. But because this adventure is self-contained on itself, it's too good opportunity to pass up to present all together in one go for better experience.
Approximately 75% of the location work is finished, but even remaining 25% are still challenging not counting the additional content coming with it. New characters, long quest chain, variability of how player solves some issues, tons of text and of course new combat related mechanics like customizing abilities further.
In addition expect more SFX and music for better immersion. And that should sadly be all i can share for now, we made a massive work already in both art and code department, including mundane optimization, but revealing too much so early would spoil the mysteries of what the nefarious cult is up to. Given its a new major story chunk segment we want people to experience it firsthand in the game, rather in snippets in dev logs.
Aaaaanyway, as for poll!
Because im retardedly optimistic with all my estimates this update development goes waaay beyond all our expectations... again. Something we initially planned to finish in May, then mid summer, now we looking at September if not mid October if something goes badly.
This raises a question, what do we do. Iski update was meant to pad out our update release schedule so fans wont be left with nothing for a while, so do we make a new one for August in similar fashion with small content increase? Or do fans want us fully focus on big update and try to deliver it faster.
We couldn't come to decisive conclusion, so decide check what our supporters would prefer. So we doing a poll, if option 1 wins, we continue as before working on big cult adventure update but it will take us about 2 more months optimistically without any update, if option 2 wins we make a small update with a smut scene, and very minor content addition, plus girl in mini update will be voted similar to Iski but it might somewhat delay big update a bit. Mini update will not have any cult adventure related content.
Poll gonna be up for several days, since if we choose option 2, we'll need to start working on it soon. All votes are equal in this poll.
-Arbuz
Comments
BigUncleC
Lev makes a good point about potential lose of pledges till the next update but I would rather yall take your time with the big update. Yeah losing pledges sucks but well flushed out content is worth it to me. Besides if yall happen to finish early then you could consider a mini update with the bonus of being able to give it your full attention at that point instead of it being a side project.
Lev
It all about gamble. Wait too long with update, you will lose patreons because of no content for X months. Ideally, it's better to release smaller but more often updates, because people wouldn't feel like they get nothing in return and game is being worked on. Considering the minimal pledge to get access to the game pushes my budget already, it's likely I'd withdraw it till new update comes in September/October.
