vlzvl I really enjoyed this demo and after the last update in December, I was pretty excited to try out the release in the new year. I've been dissapointed since it sounded like it was almost ready.
Are there any updates almost half a year later?
Hey thanks,
I am really sorry for the postponement of
short release but a lot of stuff happened in the last months, job, housing stuff and also some major life ones. I also had to dig deep with the enormous feedback from last demo by all lovely people that played it and this took a lot of time to organise and work the majority of it. Some of this feedback took quite long to get addressed.
Then the usual lot of bugs emerged, editor had to get improved, working on engine, implementing all required features and doing frequent refactoring. Then after a while the game's quality was simply increased and just had to keep going till it felt "ready" again.
I am quite sure that this delay is worthy of the final result. Things simply "get into place" a lot nicer now and feel more consistent, which is a must for a game of this scale. Its just the added content and needed immersion that keeps me busy for implementing things here and there.
Content wise, there is already a village, a town, a forest, a desert and two dungeons and I am about to complete two more areas and be done with the final demo of
The Darkness Below. The full release (much later) will still start with the same content, so this is effectively the "short release" that I promised half a year ago; this is the real game, just shorter but fully-featured and this is where this delay came from. My plan for now is to give a
big-enough short release and fully-featured, so I can work on full release behind the scene right after.
There were a lot of fixes and new stuff was implemented like
letter boxing or
quick battle shortcuts (in the screenshots below). I wont even try to post the changes.txt but its an extensive one.
I am not that good on talking about it
so let me show a screenshot or five:
I was hoping to release all that with the coming
short release / final demo but it takes a long time so here it is
Hopefully, you can spot all micro-details here and there, some of them were really worthy the time implementing them.
Regarding the "when", I guess its safe to say "soon"; I am finalising and / or nurturing the current content to my liking but don't really want to
rush it as this version will be the last before the real thing and don't plan another in-between update (I am sure I said that again but the game really contains the majority of the features now).
Hopefully this answers some questions about the game, enjoy