Roadmap Update

Hello all,

Hopefully those of you who got the last release have had some time to play it and enjoyed it. You are a quiet bunch, but you are still here and I've had no complaints, so I can only assume it is going okay. :) Those of you who haven't gotten it yet, the public release will be out on the 11th, and hopefully you'll enjoy it then.

I'd just like to talk today about the current state of development. I find these posts useful to me for setting goals, and I'm sure some of you like to know where the game is going, so I think it is worth sharing. Things are going pretty well in terms of achieving the goals I set for the game in the last few months. The map is working as planned, the castle overhaul is well on the way, and there's already over 50 events in the game. The plan over the next few months is to keep adding more content, while slowly working in additional gameplay features.

Next release (end of Feb / early March) - General content release similar to the last one. Week count will be upped to 18, and there will be six new ruler events (two of which will be sex scenes), along with a number of exploration and resource events. Three new resources will be introduced (Orc Camp / Winery / Abbey). New items.

Goal #2 release (end of March / early April) - Introduction of the Raeve Keep conquest storyline and the debut of Helayna. Week count will be upped to 24, and there will be a number of new ruler and exploration events.  

Post goal #2 releases (end of April / following few months) - Northern Rosaria (Region #2), and the backer chosen Orc-iad narrative. Introduction of the NPC job system, the infiltration mechanism, and the monster lair resource. Debut of nemesis #1 (Zerias).  Week count will continue to increase as more events are added each month.

Lastly, a quick word about saving - I know it sucks to have to restart everytime at the moment, but there isn't much I can do about this until the first map is locked in. What is holding that up, unfortunately, is money. At the current rate of support, you should be able to save your progress on the first map when the first post goal #2 release comes out (end of April-ish). If there's a spike in support, it'll be sooner, but considering the slow progress so far on that front, probably best not to get your hopes up. The good news is, since I'll have most of the base tiles, I'll need less new ones for future regions (in Rosaria, anyway), so these should be 'savable' in a shorter amount of time than it has taken for the first region.