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August 2014 blog - a question for subscribers

  • LoDebar
  • 08/10/2014 05:48 PM
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Hello everybody! First of all, I would like to say THANK YOU to everybody who has downloaded and/or subscribed. Your support is appreciated, and your feedback is always welcome.

As we're entering mid-August, summer vacations are over and all schools and regular jobs are back in session. It follows that I will go back to the regular routines and will not have as much time to dedicate to this project. I will not take a one year hiatus again, this shall not be a summer project. But in all likelihood, progress will slow down, and blog updates will be more infrequent than once a month.

Since the current demo, I have finalized two towns and one dungeon. Lots of dialog, lots of exposition, lots of scripting to make it work. I am about to start with another town and another dungeon, both of which will require disproportionate scripting for plot reasons. I'm looking forward to it, as it will bring us into the meat of the second act.

Once this new area is completed, I may feel compelled to upload a new demo that includes it. You should be able to use your old save files and continue with the new content without having to start all over. However, I have a question: Is it enough?

Between the first demo and the current one, in terms of plot progression, two dungeons and three towns were added. Is that enough to get you playing again? If you beat the current demo, would you rather have two more dungeons every few months, or would you rather wait over half a year so that the new arc be finished?

Regardless, the cevelopment cycle would be the same and take as long. I just don't know if regularly updated demos would keep people's interest in the project alive or if it would be annoying to be teased by an incomplete story arc.

If you have any comments of suggestions, post them here.

Also, I would like to point out that there's a new page on the top bar called Music! because new MIDIs based on the SNES Breath of Fire games have been made for this project. Check them out if you like, you're free to use them in your projects.