February In Review

Evening all, here to give you the latest scoop! In case you missed it, v0.26.1 is now up for supporters, while the next free release is still scheduled for this coming Monday. As for the next update, I can say that I already have two new sets of Director scenes in, so you can definitely expect some new artwork in a few weeks. On top of that, I'll finally be off this sidetrack and working again on Exploration Mission GUIs. As I said last time I tried this, I can't promise that anything will be playable for that in the near future, but I will at least try to offer some screenshots of how things are going as it goes.

My main announcement this month is probably that I am downgrading the bonus Watch Station Stories chapter reward from a 'once a month guarantee' to 'a nice bonus when it happens'. When I first added this reward, the project was bringing in twice what it is currently, and I can't currently devote the resources to guaranteeing a chapter is produced without sacrificing development time. The story archive (currently at 20 chapters) will still require Liberator+ ($5) pledges to access. However, since I don't want to change pledges that people may have already paid for, I will still guarantee a chapter this month, whether from myself or another author. This isn't to say there won't be any more chapters after this month, but at the moment I can't say how regular they may be.

So, to summarize, including what you can expect this month:

February Accomplishments:

• 1 Text Scene and 1 Codex Entry
• A new background and a Director CG (from artists Vin4Art and TDK)
• Completion of the 'multi-scene GUI' code sidetrack and other bug fixes
• 1 Watch Station Stories chapter

March Forecast:

• At least one text scene and some codex
• At least two Director CGs, and probably more
• More work on the Exploration Missions level GUI

Keep an eye out for the next free release, and thanks for playing!