April in Review (Patreon)

Evening all, time for your State of the Game! First up, v0.27.1 is now available for the public on our blog downloads page. As a reminder, this is only one release ahead of the previous free update, due to us skipping ahead one last month.

With that out, I'll get right into our plans for this month. Artwork is continuing, with more scenes for the Roth and Maelish directors nearing completion soon, and Princess is next up on the Specialist backgrounds list. Codewise, I expect Specialist Abilities to be added to Exploration Missions for this next release, and missions will be fully 'playable' at their most basic level. Once this is done I'll start going through and creating the other loyalty missions for the other Specialists.

For the second half of the month, I'll sidetrack a bit and start on setting things up for implementing the 'final tier' of Specialist relationships, which I'm sure folks have been waiting for. While producing content in this area will be a secondary task while Missions are being worked on, you should be able to expect a Grunt scene this month, and I'll probably try and get one Specialist romance scene out a month until we can switch to those as a primary task (partially depending on our Overseer-patron interest in Random Encounter scenes in the coming months in their usual polls).

Schedule wise, our next HD art pack is planned for next weekend, and the next release will be a bit over 2 weeks from now. With any luck we should have some art to preview for you before then. So, in review:

April Accomplishments:

• 1 Text scene and 1 Codex entry
• 2 New backgrounds and 2 sets of Director scenes, from artists Vin4Art and TDK!
• A big chunk of Exploration Mission functionality, and 1 Loyalty Mission

May Forecast:

• Specialist Romance
• Art including at least 1 background and 2 director sets
• Specialist abilities in missions and other mission changes
• More Loyalty Missions

Thanks for playing!