Project Plan February

Alright, not a lot to talk about this month since I think it's pretty clear that the main objectives are:

• 1.0.0 Release of SKA

• Release support (e.g. bugfixing)

However, the release being at the end of the week and bugfixing definitely not occupying our full time, we do have some other objectives we will be pursuing - just not content development focused.

The secondary objective will be to setup foundations for the smaller scoped project ("Project A"). I currently have the running title "The Price of Dignity" for it but I feel like that's probably used in a bunch of other works so I will move to something else but we will see.

There will most likely be no prerelease builds this month as I won't be directly jumping into the development of 1.1 for SKA. Of course, if our artist finishes something I can integrate, I will do that and deploy it in a prerelease build, but otherwise, I will be starting the pre-production of Project A by working on its game design document. This month, instead of posting prerelease builds, I will be posting summaries of Project A's game design doc starting with week 2 - so stay tuned for more information about the gameplay loop, characters, etc.

The second item I will be putting some time in is on the technical side. A year ago I released the template project AuraMZ which contains all the reusable code from SKA. My next goal now is to do some more cleanup to reduce technical debt, generalize more functionality and move it into the AuraMZ template project so that when we start production of Project A, I can use the AuraMZ project for its intended use case and base Project A on it.

I don't think I will be able to finish the cleanup part for AuraMZ this month, so there will probably some Technical Weeks over the next months where I continue this work until production starts.

Our assistant developer Trihan will also be working on improving our technical foundation. His main focus will be getting everything ready to support translations - which will also require quite some refactoring with all the hardcoded strings I see in many places. :'D

Anyways, those are the goals, so you know what you can expect for the rest of the month after the 1.0 release.