Malevolent Planet 2D Status Update - To Poll or not to Poll

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night! I hope you all are having a great week and preparing your summer vacations (if you're into summer activities).

Lately, I've figured out why sometimes my changes to the game create new bugs where there used to be none and the answer is probably that I'm remaking some things with better practices that are more stable in the long term, but in the short term due to the fact that the game in some parts was and is held up together by bandaid, bugs will show up. These bugs however aren't difficult to fix most of the time, they're just annoying.

So I hope this means that in the long run there won't really be bugs in older content, and if there are any gamebreaking bugs they should be centralized around the newest content.

Other than that, I've laid up the groundwork for the most part for the latest day at the ISA and I'm right now working on filling it with content. There will be a machine-related scene at the ISA that you can access in Day3, this was a very popular option in an older poll so I am trying to implement it now that we have a bit of an opening. Other than that, I'm adding more scenes and content to the Simulation Room flow, which right now is pretty stable (you can finish it without gamebreaking issues).

Now since I mentioned polls, I've recently received the suggestion of maybe having more polls to increase Patreon Engagement. That's why, I'll start with a poll for patrons tomorrow to see if the general opinion leans towards having more frequent polls about the direction of the game, as picking an option is more convenient for most people than actually finding the right words to express the feedback regarding the direction of the game.

We were supposed to have a poll every week for picking the prioritized scenes, but I'm right now working on all the choices offered in the latest poll and that's why there haven't been any recently.

In a summary, what I'm doing:

• Fill the gaps of the ISA with scenes and interesting content for the remainder of May.
• Work on at least 2 animations for this month's update, which are referred to in the first bulletpoint.
• Build up to the final sequence of the ISA, which ends with the spaceship launch and is the last linear sequence before the gameplay loop I've been talking about for a while will begin.

So we should be taking off to space soon, but before then it wouldn't hurt to have some extra scenes in the last day at the ISA.

I hope I'll manage my time and post another status update on Friday, but if I don't, I hope you will all have a pleasant weekend :)