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News From the Six Realms #88 - State of the Game
🕑 Added 2024-02-19 11:23:48 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
It's a new year, and as always the work continues. We are already busy getting the March release ready, and there'll be more about that further down, but first I'd like to talk about the game's current state.
Obviously, I would have liked to have Act I finished by now, but I will be the first to admit there was far too much scope creep, and writing issues have slowed things down, unfortunately. That being said, we are now approaching the end, and I'm hoping to be done by the end of the year or early next year at the latest. After a discussion with the writing staff, here is a good indication of the content left on the slate before we can move on to Act II:
Main:
Astarte - New War Council: Currently at 40%/100%
Updated Pre-Battle: Currently at 20%/100%
Updated Battle: 0%/100%
Updated postBattle: 0%/100%
Epilogue - One very large multi-state event similar to Astarte
Side:
Goblin arc - Che-Lin - 4 + 1 (4 Route events and a short debrief event)
Zii-Zii - 1 (short debrief event)
Tue-San - 1 (short debrief event)
Wedding - 3
Post-Wedding short events: 3
Fae - 2 Heartsong Events
1 Whitescar event
1 Aryzl event
Arzyl Finale/Whitescar Finale (scenes would be released simultaneously but be separate)
NPC:
Andras NTR - 2
Jez NTR - 1
Jez - 2
Hel - 2
X'zaratl - 3
Map:
Ygrisse Chaos Incursion - 3-5
Portal Events - 5 (Short events for unlocking the portal for the first time)
Shrine events - 3 (Three written events about finding shrines to Solansian gods in Rosaria)
Other:
Rastedel edits
Continuing Helayna events rework (5 events) and folding mindless events into a repeatable menu (six short events)
As you can see, there is still quite a bit of work to be done, but we are finally getting to the top of the mountain. The larger tasks are still Astarte and the epilogue, Che-Lin, the Fae, and the Helayna rework, but we will be aiming to hit these with every release to get them finished and eventually free up staff to help in other areas. The good news is we are very close to being finished on both NPC arcs and map stuff, meaning we can put them to bed and focus elsewhere.
Not going to talk about this today, but moving into Act II, we will be looking at ways to reduce workload while still giving you plenty of options, and make it feel like your choices matter. We have learned a few lessons in making this game, and we know that three acts totalling 3 million words plus over eight years each isn't really feasible. We will discuss this more as we start to reveal stuff about Act II in the not-so-distant future, though.
So that is all for today. I hope the above list has given you some idea of what is left before the act is finished, and I'll be updating it as we knock stuff off (probably not every release, but every other release) until it is completely done. It has been a long haul and I want to thank you all for sticking by it and supporting us while we tried to bring this project that was far, far too large to life. I and the rest of the team are really looking forward to getting into Act 2, though. There's going to be new characters, locations, plot lines, and, of course, plenty of sex, and we hope you are excited about it too. In the meantime though, the next release will be out on the final Sunday of March, which this year falls on the 31st.
Comments
Christian Löfgren
Don't forget to continue bug fixing and restoring content. That is important too. I check on this game from time to time and last year when I payed to get an update the game was in a terrible state with events in the wrong order, missing stuff and outright broken things. Now it seems to be much better but I still missed some things from earlier builds like the choice to have Rowan search for Alexia in the beginning and having Alexia move back to Rowan after Heleynia have escaped. Really good to hear that you understand the development needs to speed up because even though I really like the game and concept (it's an awesome combo of genres) even a patient man like myself is getting tired of the slow pace. You are not going to keep interest up for another 8 years. Good luck and hope I will see a finished game some day!
Kurt Wagner
Sounds great! Only thing missing from the plan is more orc content! We need a recurring orcess for Rowan
TokidokiTensai
Thanks for the update. Looking forward to it all
