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In fairness, bluewitchgames wasn't lying when he said the next release was going to be "after tomorrow" - that was over a month ago though, don't think even he was expecting it to take *this* long! Am guessing smth went awry with the beta testing and there were a load of things he decided to resolve ahead of the next release.
Few days, few years, who knows the difference. Was excited in August and still very much excited now! WOO
Suffice to say we're all really keen - being a dev is a helluva time sink, and although BWG has taken some stick for delays and perfectionism(!) I personally love the artwork style and the ambitious nature of the project. He may regret it at times, but I reckon bluewitchgames will be proud when he finally launches 
Yup. Can't shake the feeling of being let down - promised so much, delivered, well, nowt. Lots of updates saying that releases are imminent, "last thing that needed to be done is done, only fine tuning and beat testing to go" and then radio silence. So sad, this game had real potential.
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Yeah about that launch. No clue why you're defending the guy, he can do so himself if he comes out of fucking radio silence. Maybe something bad happened to him, maybe he just rugpulled for some random reason, we'll probably never know.Suffice to say we're all really keen - being a dev is a helluva time sink, and although BWG has taken some stick for delays and perfectionism(!) I personally love the artwork style and the ambitious nature of the project. He may regret it at times, but I reckon bluewitchgames will be proud when he finally launches
game abandoned . no news anymore . if have any update pls post here . but we hit 18 months.
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Yeah, still no recent update that I can see, on Discord, Itch, or Patreon. This is the last thing on Patreon I see, from way back in June:
I really hope BWG is doing well, regardless of where the work on this might be. I always worry about devs when there's radio silence for a long time.
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Blue Witch Games - June 11
Right, it's getting to a point where I feel comfortable sending it out to other ppl than just the usual testers. If anyone wants to give a hand with the last round of testing, send me a DM. I'll be going to sleep now, but checking back in tomorrow!
But yeah it's just about there, I guess. Hermy's things had to be redone again-again, but well, done is done, and it's ready now at least.
Won't type too much here because I despise this feeling of a used car salesman, and I apologise that this has meant I've avoided Patreon out of, at this point, yeah a little bit of embarrassment. Ambivalent kind of feeling overall and I'll post more about it later, but I guess in short, I'm happy about the result, just not the delivery time. Some things on that later too. For now, just a quick Hermione, and now sleep
I really hope BWG is doing well, regardless of where the work on this might be. I always worry about devs when there's radio silence for a long time.
I've been lurking in the discord where the devs appear to be most active.
The most recent update of note in the discord was that the dev deleted the most recent build of the game and had to reconstruct it from a decompiled build of the beta that he was sending to testers. (this was as of November 1). They lost 1/3rd of the quest data, which has since been mostly restored. Since then they've been talking about testing but they've been testing since April so I wouldn't necessarily take that as a sign of imminent release.
My understanding of the update is that its mostly focused on Hogsmeade, some system improvements, fixes to quests, more ground clutter, NPC's that move, alternate outfits, Character art replacements, an improvement to the crafting system, supposedly an arrow that tracks your current quest (if he can get it working), and a significant texture overhaul on pretty much the entire game. Unfortunately this has also doubled the game size from what I remember.
(I really don't know why he doesn't just publish the beta. He's been saying the build has been mostly done and playable except for some "bugs" since around April-May so I dont understand why its taken so long)
They haven't mentioned a specific ETA. Every progress update gives a very vague answer in the vein of "a few days" or "after we finish (xyz)"
The most recent update of note in the discord was that the dev deleted the most recent build of the game and had to reconstruct it from a decompiled build of the beta that he was sending to testers. (this was as of November 1). They lost 1/3rd of the quest data, which has since been mostly restored. Since then they've been talking about testing but they've been testing since April so I wouldn't necessarily take that as a sign of imminent release.
My understanding of the update is that its mostly focused on Hogsmeade, some system improvements, fixes to quests, more ground clutter, NPC's that move, alternate outfits, Character art replacements, an improvement to the crafting system, supposedly an arrow that tracks your current quest (if he can get it working), and a significant texture overhaul on pretty much the entire game. Unfortunately this has also doubled the game size from what I remember.
(I really don't know why he doesn't just publish the beta. He's been saying the build has been mostly done and playable except for some "bugs" since around April-May so I dont understand why its taken so long)
They haven't mentioned a specific ETA. Every progress update gives a very vague answer in the vein of "a few days" or "after we finish (xyz)"
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