A quick update (Patreon)

Hi all!

Just a quick update to let you know how I'm getting on.

I've been working on a system to allow custom scenes to be parsed and run by Newlife. This is now almost complete with three large caveats. First, it needs further testing, second I need to get it working with the build process which could be aa quick & easy task or could be a nightmare.

Third and no doubt the most tedious, I'll need to write up proper documentation: a quick check reveals that there are literally hundreds of methods exposed to writers . With documentation needed for all of them plus syntax and writing guides, this isn't a task I'm looking forward to!

While I've been focused on this, I've let my message backlog build up quite a lot - I've pretty much only been replying when I have an answer ready to go off the top of my head. I haven't forgotten about you though and I will be going over posts & messages properly before the actual release.

Once the testing & build tasks are done, I'll put out a dev build to a select group - probably no more than a dozen or two people. That'll be so they can try the custom content while I'm writing the documentation. I'll obviously be taking the Inner Circle group as a starting point, but any other patrons who're interested in writing for the game should comment here and I'll include them too.

Bear in mind though that the first release with this stuff will be very rough. The dev version won't have proper documentation and will no doubt need polishing in terms of how custom content is written & tested. At this early stage the goal is less to provide actual content for Newlife and more to just get the tools to a respectable state.

Hope you've all had a good weekend, and I'll no doubt speak to you again soon :)