Release Schedule and Final Mini-Update
There are usually three releases of each version:
- The beta release, which is available to all $10 patreons. This will be released tomorrow (Nov 7), around early afternoon EST / evening European time. This is essentially an "early preview" version. It will be missing some content (see below for details) and may have some bugs. The beta is designed for people who are either wiling to help with the testing or who are too desperate to wait any longer.
- The main patreon release, which is available to all $5 patreons. This will be released in a week (Nov 14). This will contain the full content and may include any bug fixes that have been reported.
- The public release, which will be released a month later (Dec 14). This will not have any new content, but may include any additional bug fixes.
Hope that helps.
Discord Update
Altos has also posted a small update on his Discord:
I can hardly wait...
There are usually three releases of each version:
- The beta release, which is available to all $10 patreons. This will be released tomorrow (Nov 7), around early afternoon EST / evening European time. This is essentially an "early preview" version. It will be missing some content (see below for details) and may have some bugs. The beta is designed for people who are either wiling to help with the testing or who are too desperate to wait any longer.
- The main patreon release, which is available to all $5 patreons. This will be released in a week (Nov 14). This will contain the full content and may include any bug fixes that have been reported.
- The public release, which will be released a month later (Dec 14). This will not have any new content, but may include any additional bug fixes.
Hope that helps.
Discord Update
Altos has also posted a small update on his Discord:
The update is nearly done although it doesn't have the dramatic ending to the new main quest I had planned, and now I've run out of time for new content. Not going to delay the release though, there's still going to be loads for people to enjoy. Just going to have to put a placeholder ending in for now and add it next week between the beta and main release. Bug fixes normally take no more than a couple of days so I should have time to add in at least one extra scene.
There are now almost 1700 new images in the update bringing the total in the game to over 10,000. Kind of crazy to think about really. It's hard to say exactly how many words of dialogue there are because it's all mixed in with code but it's probably between 55 and 60 thousand words. Which is equivalent to a short novel. Not a bad achievement to write all of that, make 1700 image, 25 videos all in about 4 months of development time.
I just know at least one person is going to complain to me that I haven't produced enough in the time I've taken though. Its always the way. Most likely someone who isn't even a patron.
I'll be aiming to post it tomorrow evening (European time). I'm still working on it though, so I can't be any more specific than that. I'll be trying to keep the file download size under 4GB. Much smaller than that and I'll start to lose image quality. I have to make it a lot smaller for android, obviously. I'll look at adding some download mirrors this time.
I can hardly wait...