News: v0.6 Release and Upcoming Changes (Patreon)

Hello all. It's time to discuss some big news that will effect everyone here in the Agent Community. I have a couple of important things to say here and more will follow in days to come, but lets jump right in with what everyone wants to hear: Nat's v0.6 is almost ready and should be expected in the near future, as in you can count the number of days on your fingers. I thank you for your extended patience in waiting for this version. Last month (Dec) I had to delay v0.6 thanks to important work on another project (more on that below and later) but this month has been all about AoH. That's not all that's been going on with the project however. After a number of releases and a whole lot of feedback from great fans, I've looked at where the game can be most improved. I'm really happy to hear that my artwork and characters are well received but as a non-native English speaker, some of the scenes writing could be improved as well as the time it takes me to turn my ideas into ready-to-go content. That's why I have decided to take on a writer to help me in this area of the project. What does this mean for the game? It means v0.6 will be a trial by fire for my new hire (actually “Partner” is the right term). Without giving anything away, v0.6 will contain a smaller but fleshed out batch of scenes, all written by the new guy under my scene design and plot direction, handling the initial follow up to the main mission of our last update. I hope you will all have your voices heard and let us know how you find the change, good or bad, and more importantly we hope you enjoy it! In future, as we get up to speed working together, and everyone is happy with out new arrangement's output, we will ramp up production to what you have come to know from AoH and even more!

So by now you must all be asking, who is this new writer? Well that brings me to my next bit of news. The new writer is actually the writer, programmer and project lead for my “other project” you've heard about a few times by now. He's also been a long time supporter of AoH and a vocal fanboy too: Spook2099. I have personally vetted his work and I am fully confident he can do the project justice as well as have the same passion for it as I have. I wouldn't do it otherwise. In fact, I have such confidence in our combined abilities that I've decided to merge AoH with his work under our new name “BeWilder”. Eagle-eyed fans will have noticed the logo marks on the Last Raider comic, so you can believe me when I say this is not something I do lightly, it has been a serious discussion and thought out for some time now. This is also going to come with some significant change to the Patreon, but have no fear, nothing will be lost. If anything we will have more to offer. We are nothing if not ambitious!

I know what you are all wondering: what is this “other project” you keep mentioning. Well that's an update for another day, a day soon to come. What you can be sure of is that it'll be available as part of our BeWilder brand and it'll be our first completely original installment in what will be known as the “BeWilderverse” (yes, that mean's it's in the same game world as our Agent of Heels!). You can also be sure that AoH will not suffer because of it. The very first condition of our collaboration, as proposed by Spook himself, is that AoH will continue in development as planned and I have no plans to leave it idle any time soon anyway. Check back with us soon for more on the new project. We hope you like it as much as we both do.

Phew... I know that's a lot to take in a single post but I'm ready to enter this new phase of our development plans and I wanted to bring you all up to speed with us. It's a big step but it is a step forward and a necessary one in bringing to you all the ambitious plans in my head (and Spook's too). We're going to be hard at work as always but feel free to start a discussion and ask any questions that you have while we undergo this transformation. Thank you all again for your patience and I hope you will BeWilder with us both!