The Steam Page Cometh!

3/21 of the Time Travel Rigs remain. This milestone has been WILD!

COMPLETED TASKS

• Creation and Wiring of the Artificer Wheel
• Creation and Wiring of the Time Tunnels
• Addition of AI to the core build.
• Addition of Melee Combat to the core build
• Addition of Platform Smart Physics to the main Build
• Wiring of the Time Travel System across all 12 time frames for all 21 worlds.
• Replacement of the Sky Ring Art to the new models and designs.

REMAINING TASKS

• 3 Timeframes remain to wire. (This post is allowing me to ADHD that to the background)
• Rewire of the Portal Events to look across the Time Variable to decide where to send you.
• Artificer Tunnels / Events  for the 20 remaining worlds and 6 core time controls.

It's almost insulting to have called this Milestone the 'Cleanup' milestone. 4 was really about saying 'I spent 200 hours building the Game Overworld and Engine and now I have to refactor the central gameplay mechanics to match the world I actually built.

1 was the Concept Milestone, 2 was the IP Flesh Out & Engine, 3 was World Building. And 4 has been entirely about Functionality. Basically, I have spent about 150 hours building the underlying 'Game' which fits into the world.

A long lost best friend of mine used to tell me that I had to 'Wait for the fun part' or I'd never build something worthy of my skill and talent. Which was flattering; but it was a nice way of saying 'If you don't do the hard and technical things first you'll use story and puzzles to overcome the limitations of your creation'. 

Milestone 5 gets the Camera Rigs, Talking Characters, Quests, Story, and Events which take you through the world. We'll wire up all 12 versions of every object, player, and location throughout the game to build our narrative. Carefully leaving holes for the Milestone 6 Dungeon and Temple buildout. (We have to have the Shooting Mechanics done before we can wire those in. But with AI done, we may build them at the same time)

Why the Steam Storefront Now?

That's and interesting question voice in my head! Simple! Steam has a Testing Feature. I can release an early build, get an NDA from players, and let people download what I've done so far, and test, play, and help design in our Legend Keeper. And I don't have to worry about build distribution or control. If I want to revoke access I can do it with the click of a button. 

I've set us for a July 2024 release date, knowing it will likely slide as much as a year. But if funding goes well, and I find a way to finish Development while being paid to survive, then we could hit the original date.

But this way the Voice Actors, Story Writers, Dungeon and Quest Designers, and early fans can take part in founding a community around the game before it exists. It's a pretty large milestone for us. And I'm really proud to have taken the time to do it!

Stay tuned for the end of Milestone 4 update coming here in a few weeks. I'll try to show some progress on the gates. And once it's done, we get the new Travel/Time system video montage. Which is very exciting!

-Game on Friends!