Taking a Swim

Hey! I believe that by now my working speed should be pretty close to what it was before I had to go.

Normally in the past I would specify what I was going to release in that month's build ahead of time, but given the circumstances of this month I won't do that this month and in fact I might actually keep this approach for the next months too.

My focus is basically this. I'm currently in the testing stage for the boss fight on the ship but I also have to write the loser/winner dialogues as well. Depending on how it goes, I may also be able to "finish" the ship content this month with a few gaps such as the missing Alberto get-to-know conversations and the minigame that's supposed to be used there to unlock doors.

Once the gaps are filled and the flow (returning to ship and waking up after the boss fight) is tested and working fine, I want to get started on the city content.

First of all we need to explain how the ship was fixed, and I'm thinking I should keep that information on the background, maybe it happened while she was recovering from the boss fight.

This way we save some time on dialogues and interactions, a while ago I planned on having our crew meet Melissa's crew and letting the choices you may have picked a long time ago (when you were prompted to describe each member of your crew, in a nicer way or in a less nice way) influence the outcome of the first meeting, but I think that can be either left as a "gap" or done after we go to the city, maybe we'll go back to the village one time and the meeting may happen then, before we go back to the city.

I believe that this approach is better, so that we can focus on the city content and introducing more aliens sooner than later. We'll see how it goes.

I also am checking this bug. I have also seen a bug report from a player who was teleported above the ISA Gym door but I have no idea how that happened and all my attempts to reproduce that have failed.

In case the reporter is reading this please contact me on Discord. It would be great to understand what causes it to happen.

Thank you. I'll return on Friday with more news on how things are going. No matter what, we're going to have a release this month, but I don't know yet how much new content there will be besides the new boss fight and its scene.