yes, of course, ready to test the launch of the game!I've killed the movie, working on reducing other memory footprint issues.
As a test-case, do you mind if I PM you a pre-release beta to see if it works? It works *here*, but that's obviouslsy a bad argument for anything
Thx! This weekend is focused on Love of Magic; Book 2 is kicking off, and I'm itching to get it done. Monday I'm back to PL. I'll try to get a streamlined version to you mid-monday. Any specific OS?
No, Windows 7 Home Extended Version
Likely out of RAM; I'll see if I can drop the memory-footprint for the next build
Hmm... that sounds like it might be the video issue another user talked about. I'll do a build with it removed on monday (I'd need to make sure nothing else is broken, since it's in mid development for the next public build).
It worked
Hope so; I spent the week before xmas doing a hard optimization pass. It's cut memory usage by 75% and drastically reduced loading time. Now we just need to shake out the bugs caused by it (it was a rather invasive change), and then finish up this month's build.
humans did it for millennia before doctors and hospitals....Right now, no... I am struggling with how to deal with being pregnant on an abandoned island w/o doctors.
We'll try to get back on that schedule by February. Updates for this build include a hardcore optimization pass that dropped memory usage by 3/4, reduced loading times and hopefully making android a lot more playable.
Nice! umm I'm a noob with discod, try'ed but I'm overwhelming with the options, I dont find that build you mention...Quick update: Beta build just dropped on discord. We're on track for a public release next Thursday. I was hoping to get back to releasing public builds 1st Thursday of the month, but Xmas/New Year had other plans
On the tech side we also added 3 new minigame types, the first of which shows up in the new Raven quest-line. I also added a new 'group character', which lets the designer puppeteer character expressions even if they're in a tangled count-the-legs-and-divide-by-two mess.
Design wise, a lot of work went into making the opening moments more streamlined, reducing possible bug points and also opening up quests earlier. You've still got the opening tutorial funnel, but after that we try to open the world a lot faster, and letting people pick different things to do. We also added a new story with Raven, expanding on her background and letting the player have some fun.
The android build is over in #beta-release. I put the desktop builds on Steam last night (easier on my end), but I'll do a non-steam version tonight.
Swimming session should happen automatically the first night. I think that's it for now; there's a couple of Raven sequences, with more coming. Apart from that, I've got a new beta build to put up today, we should hit public on Thursday (assuming nothing blows up in beta)
There was an issue with exploration order that made the MC skip the night event, I don't recall the exact trigger but it was something along the lines of leaving the rooms for last, Oldmantac might have experienced that while playing. No idea if that's been fixed in the current version, but if it was, maybe they didn't replay from the start.
