Allright Peeps....as you may have noticed, there was more time between 0.6 and 0.7 releases. This was not unexpected. It is likely that the next releases will have longer time between still. While we love and appreciate those preparing imagery for us, it is a spot that has been harder to keep consistent in terms of production, and it is going to be a big part of the content needing to be filled moving forward...
That said, I present the Officially Unofficial, Tentative "Timeline": (Timeline in quotes because I am not comfortable trying to give deadlines with as many unknowns as there are right now) ((Post the Mid May 0.7 Release))
0.7.1-0.8.0: (Main Release)
*More Images, Adding Image references to the code. (We can't effectively add the code until we have the image, and the image can't exist until the content/story is complete right? Luckily...we are "almost" done with 1.0 content writing.)
*First 1/2 to 2/3rds of the "Mystery Ending"/Ending/Underlying Story Content Creation. (Likely, the player won't see any of this yet...it will be backend code, and the only visible changes would be to the first "night event scenes.")
*Misc Code additions by request/External testing. (Keep in mind, the ending/story content is likely to have to cross many files...so Xaverion has extra work to implement other changes because we have not gone as far as to have a shared repository and be checking in changes and all that stuff...so whether its merging the story code changes to the technical ones or vice versa, we're still doing things the old fashioned way. ((No judgement, just letting you all now we haven't graduated to "real game designer" status for this)).)
*Any residual pending content from the original game - There shouldn't be much of any in the aftermath of 0.7...but if we run across any...hopefully it will attended to here. Most thing you might "feel" belong here...don't...they are expansions of current content...which we are not against, just we are looking to that kind of thing as post 1.0. (Ex. Expanding the Tails content - popular demand, adding more single day events, etc.) - Note: I think the Instant Messenger in the laptop falls under this...Might have to examine what to do with that. May just be a removal.
*Optional Code Additions
0.8.1-0.8.5: (Optional Releases)
*More Images.
*Bug Fixes from 0.8 and below.
*Optional Code Additions
0.8.6-0.9.0: (Main Release)
*More Images.
*Up to 4/5-9/10ths of the "Mystery Ending"/Ending/Underlying Story Content Creation. (Player will be seeing more, and a baseline of the ending(s) is likely to be implemented for bug testing.
*Optional Code Additions
*Bug fixes on any optional releases.
0.9.1-0.9.3: (Optional Releases)
*Last Releases for "Optional Code Changes" (Please!) for 1.0 level release.
*More Images.
0.9.4-0.9.6: (Optional Releases)
*More Images.
*Bug Fixes on Optional Code Changes.
*Alpha/Beta Releases Including "Mystery Ending"/Ending/Underlying Story Content in final format.
0.9.7-1.0 (!): (Official Game Release)
*Final Images for the Final Ending Content and Filling in any of the image lacking gaps.
*Bug Fixes for Final Story Content and any optional releases remaining.
1.0.x and beyond: (Unknown, but Possible)
*New Content
*Expansion of Current Content in Demand
Note: There may be 0.x.1/2/3 releases with smaller batches of changes just to keep the birds fed. This is why I used a range in this timeline. We are not expecting to be able to go faster, if anything, life is hitting a lot of us and we're slowing down so as to not come to abrupt halts.