Status report
Hi guys! I finished the 1.7 (Bangkok Intro) design doc today, and shared it with the team. I'll let you know their feedback.
Tomorrow I'm planning to switch back to working on 1.6, which we're aiming to release ASAP. (The only thing that might derail that is if there's a lot of feedback/discussion on the design doc.)
I'll post an update tomorrow. See you then!
Comments (4)
I'm almost too scared to ask: how you and the team feel about the time needed to churn out content for the main game? Do you think the framework for the sex engine will help? Is it working like you expected (modularity, reusability, etc..)? Do you consider it to be (mostly) complete? Thx and keep up the nice work ;)
Don't be scared. :-D However, the truthful answer is: "I don't know yet." I wanted to use 1.7 to find out: my idea was to rewrite the backstage casting scene using the new technique, and find out how many sprints it takes. That would have given you guys a new sex scene fairly quickly (certainly sooner than you're going to get 1.7 now it's bigger in scope), and let us know how fast we can produce new scenes in the new framework. As we all know I was out-argued on this, so we're going into the next stage without that info. HOWEVER, we have (of course) planned a couple of new sex scenes in 1.7, so we'll learn how well this works soon anyway. Fingers crossed, keep the faith, and (of course) I'll report truthfully on progress while we work on it.
Hopefully it won't be too much longer before we get our hub location and base gameplay loop implemented and can start to keep save games between versions.
Hub + gameplay loop is exactly the point I want to get to, but we'll probably get to that in a few separate steps. More detail to follow. We have a concept for a kind of import wizard that will make saves from previous versions forward compatible. We'll definitely need that in the future (people won't want to start a whole new game from scratch just to get to a new scene in Bangkok!). :-)