- Aug 30, 2017
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Yeah. Stone Fox Studios is among a very short list of Devs I idolize and strive to eventually reach some level of similarity to!
They are awesome and always worth the wait!
They are awesome and always worth the wait!
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Chasing Sunsets Chapter 8 Release Candidate Complete!
Stone Fox Studios is excited to announce that our release candidate is currently under review. The sole remaining items barring any major issues discovered in QA are the creation of the Steam binary and updating the closing credits movie. As always, if you're a patron, and you'd prefer not to have your name in the credits, DM Stoya in Discord or reply to this post with your wishes stipulated.
This will be the "expansion chapter" since we were unable to close out the Tonalu arc in Chapter 7 as originally planned. Chapter 9 will pick up where the original Chapter 8 would have opened, in Boston.
Barring any surprises in QA, we anticipate launching within the next 24-72 hours, and we will create an updated post at that time with refreshed download links.
The final tally for Chapter 8:
1900 new individual static renders
6 new animations
1 Crossover
22 new original audio tracks
21 new achievements
Chapter 8 was bittersweet for us because we say farewell to a few characters (for now) and the next chapter effectively wraps up the pathing, with the final chapter being more of an epilogue that explores the consequences of the player's cumulative choices.
So, what's left to do?
A few more path deconfliction runs, rebuilding the closing credits trailer movie, and removing some of the beta tools we include so testers can change world state with the press of a button. My next post will contain links to the updated 0.9 binary, and then Kent and I go dark for a week or so to recover from our dev cycle (after I've put any gamebreaking bugs to rest).
Kentyrr and I want to thank all of you who support us during the dev cycle...We never for a moment thought we'd ever get a following, and here we are on the cusp of completing our first game.
Again, download links will be up in the next day or two and we push to ALL platforms same day.
Stone Fox Studios is excited to announce that our release candidate is currently under review. The sole remaining items barring any major issues discovered in QA are the creation of the Steam binary and updating the closing credits movie. As always, if you're a patron, and you'd prefer not to have your name in the credits, DM Stoya in Discord or reply to this post with your wishes stipulated.
This will be the "expansion chapter" since we were unable to close out the Tonalu arc in Chapter 7 as originally planned. Chapter 9 will pick up where the original Chapter 8 would have opened, in Boston.
Barring any surprises in QA, we anticipate launching within the next 24-72 hours, and we will create an updated post at that time with refreshed download links.
The final tally for Chapter 8:
1900 new individual static renders
6 new animations
1 Crossover
22 new original audio tracks
21 new achievements
Chapter 8 was bittersweet for us because we say farewell to a few characters (for now) and the next chapter effectively wraps up the pathing, with the final chapter being more of an epilogue that explores the consequences of the player's cumulative choices.
So, what's left to do?
A few more path deconfliction runs, rebuilding the closing credits trailer movie, and removing some of the beta tools we include so testers can change world state with the press of a button. My next post will contain links to the updated 0.9 binary, and then Kent and I go dark for a week or so to recover from our dev cycle (after I've put any gamebreaking bugs to rest).
Kentyrr and I want to thank all of you who support us during the dev cycle...We never for a moment thought we'd ever get a following, and here we are on the cusp of completing our first game.
Again, download links will be up in the next day or two and we push to ALL platforms same day.
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Stone Fox Studios is excited to announce that our release candidate is currently under review. The sole remaining items barring any major issues discovered in QA are the creation of the Steam binary and updating the closing credits movie. As always, if you're a patron, and you'd prefer not to have your name in the credits, DM Stoya in Discord or reply to this post with your wishes stipulated.
This will be the "expansion chapter" since we were unable to close out the Tonalu arc in Chapter 7 as originally planned. Chapter 9 will pick up where the original Chapter 8 would have opened, in Boston.
Barring any surprises in QA, we anticipate launching within the next 24-72 hours, and we will create an updated post at that time with refreshed download links.
The final tally for Chapter 8:
- 1900 new individual static renders
- 6 new animations
- 1 Crossover
- 22 new original audio tracks
- 21 new achievements
Chapter 8 was bittersweet for us because we say farewell to a few characters (for now) and the next chapter effectively wraps up the pathing, with the final chapter being more of an epilogue that explores the consequences of the player's cumulative choices.
So, what's left to do?
A few more path deconfliction runs, rebuilding the closing credits trailer movie, and removing some of the beta tools we include so testers can change world state with the press of a button. My next post will contain links to the updated 0.9 binary, and then Kent and I go dark for a week or so to recover from our dev cycle (after I've put any gamebreaking bugs to rest).
Kentyrr and I want to thank all of you who support us during the dev cycle...We never for a moment thought we'd ever get a following, and here we are on the cusp of completing our first game.
Again, download links will be up in the next day or two and we push to ALL platforms same day.
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- Apr 23, 2017
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Wish a new update came out, all this waiting. A new update could be delayed for 6 months for this game and people would still defend it. Another MF 2.0 scenario. Either way, guess we wait.
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My guy scroll up one post.
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I have to admit, I'm curious as to what conditions will spawn this conversation. Given how hard we have to work to get stuck in Jaye's friendzone, I wasn't really expecting a branch specifically to escape it. Could be an interesting development, depending on how it's handled. More importantly, it would be nice if we could likewise have a chance to clarify the situation with Mallory, too.
To be 'fair,' that post means there's only a short time to troll us about the development cycle before the opportunity is lost for several months.
- Apr 19, 2020
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Sancho1969 Well just a heads up its time to start getting ready for the long road of updating the mod for chapter 8 gonna be a big one...
- Apr 26, 2020
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- Jan 19, 2020
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Hmmm... didn't see it coming, usually Stoya bounces a pre-build before a candidate is scheduled for bug testing. Oh well.
- Mar 13, 2021
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Very unsurprisingly and predictably, I daresay.
You totally needed to add those totally "necessary" crossovers, after all
I'm betting a million pounds that you will add 1 one more chapter, at least. We need more crossovers and achievements, after all.
- Nov 21, 2022
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So if i understood it correctly, we'll have a chapter 9 as a "ending chapter" and a chapter 10 as an "epilogue chapter"?
If so, then wow, didn't knew we were so close to the end...
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Keep in mind the next update (v0.9) is chapter 8, because v0.1 was the prologue.
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Yeah totally caught me off guard as well a few months back when I heard their, I guess "podcast", in which they talked about the development of the game. I was stunned when they mentioned the game was past the halfway point. I was so sure it was at most a third of the way in. Don't think I've ever had a worse grasp on the overall stage of any game before, storywise.
The story appears long but it turns out to be much more straightforward and shorter than I could have antecipated. I can see characters like Tara, Tanaka, Erica, Linda, Fiona etc being nothing but supporting cast with a couple of scenes but I expected others such as Lisa, Amanda and even Christian to play a much larger role than what we have seen so far.
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- Apr 23, 2017
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To be fair, I am not a troll. This game was rly fun and story was engaging, but we can always stay vigilant cus of what other devs have milked in their sex games on patreon (6 months no update yet people continue to defend, let alone games with 12 months no update and people still defend)
- Mar 13, 2021
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