Preparing for Beta (Patreon)

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I did a lot of stress testing and making sure things work for this Monday the 23rd's Beta release. I have more behaviors that have been brought back and others that were improved.

To start, headpats were given a facelift for keyboard mode so they work properly and similar to v0.75:

There is also a new simple gesture for STOP that involves putting your hand out in a flat pose. This will make them stop in place if they are following you.

I'm also like 80% done bringing back the "GIVE" gesture so they'll be able to receive items again. Ignore the broken item hold, I was messing with stuff:

My plan for this beta is to be able to cook, feed, and put to sleep. Just to make a proper cycle of things to do.

Some other things I had to do was making the beds selectable for users. So now you can tell them to sleep manually like v0.8:

As most betas go I have serious reservations on the current player controller for keyboard as it feels pretty wonky and floppy. I put fixing it for a bit later as I had other things more important to fix.

I'm really trying to push out the game at this point because the sooner I push it out, the sooner others start to make mods and help me out with game development. About a month or so ago I said that v0.9 will release August 31st. However the date has been pushed and finalized to early October, just to give me a week to record all the massive amounts of new changes for a YouTube video. I am putting my foot down for this date. I do not want to delay it any further. v0.9 has taken a year to complete and I just need to push it out so it picks up mod support speed.

As I said previously there will be 2 last betas to test stuff out in. The next one is this Monday. The last one is uhh probably late next month. For the rest of the time till Monday I will be working purely on bugfixing and VR compatibility.

Stay tuned!