Destination Alpha 1 (Blog #10)

METRACK IS BACK!
After a week away, I'm back to work on Fatsona: Breakout Alpha 1 to try and finish it out by July 24th!

It's yet another time where I have a tentative deadline and it's not done, so while it is within reach, it's still not guaranteed unfortunately. I mentioned this in the development server, but if it takes past the 24th I'm going to have to switch gears... But I'm going to be pushing really hard to make it happen- and you'll be able to keep up with all that work in this continued blog series :D

Something I kind of wanted to mention was that once Alpha 1 is done, development on this project will be much quicker. A large majority of Alpha 1's bulk and work is entirely new systems. Ideation, Implementation, and production of "finalized" assets for these new systems sums up to a lot of firsts that will either get quicker and easier to develop with time with repetition, or they are things I literally only needed to get right for this Alpha and now they're done. I have likely said this before, but I think the entirety of Alpha 1 amounts to over half the amount of work that is needed to finish this game. What will be left after Alpha 1 is much less technical, it's a lot of story writing, and a lot of drawing for the remaining characters, as opposed to Alpha 1 which just brings a bunch new systems and stuff.

This is all to say that while Alpha 1's development and constant back and forth teetering on release dates and states of completion might be a little odd of frustrating from the outside looking in, I think it's just a unique issue of this Alpha. Once it's out the door, whether it's working on the next Alpha or the final game, I think the development timeline will be a lot easier to pinpoint and follow. I appreciate the patience and grace afforded to me, especially from the Commission tier patrons. Thank you for allowing me to give this update what it needs, and I promise that future developments wont be so rocky and extended.

That's pretty much all I wanted to touch on in this first blog, even if it isn't necessary about the now I think going a bit more into detail on that is appropriate now. I will be posting a new blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Next blog I will be showing off some pretty cool stuff :P

-Metrack