November in Review

Evening all, time for our monthly State of the Game! First, I'll start by saying that the public release of v0.22.1 will be going up soon after this post, so keep an eye open.

Second, Exploration Missions! That's what's going on now, in case you've missed the previous posts. I don't have a whole lot to add today, other than to restate that for the next few releases at least the development focus will be on things like code and user interfaces and so on, so there won't be a great deal of smut in the near future, at least in the written sense - our art team is still working away on Director CGs, of course. I do plan on writing some Hellfire content this month, but my first priority will be on finishing up the 'mission selection' section of the interface, at least what can be finished without having actual missions created yet.

Schedule-wise, this is the holiday season, although I'm not anticipating a great deal of schedule impact from that. I will probably be releasing v0.24.1 a few days before the end of the month to avoid a New Year's Eve release, however. Our next HD Art Pack is currently scheduled for next weekend, and our next bonus chapter will probably be in about three weeks. On the art side, Director CGs continue as do the citizen scene backgrounds.  Finally, our next release should be in about two weeks. So, in summary:

November Accomplishments:

• 5 Text Scenes
• 2 CGs and 2 Backgrounds (from artists TDK, Vin4Art and Suki)  
• 1 Watch Station Stories chapter (from writer F.W. Smith) 
• Interface updates for Mission selection screens, and other code updates

December Forecast:

• Completion of Mission selection, start on additional Mission functionality
• Art including Celopi and Maelish Directors, and Space Cruise backgrounds
• Hellfire content

Thanks for playing, and have a wonderful December!