mity

but close?

Added 2022-03-28 14:53:41 +0000 UTC

Yoho! First off, obligatory link to to the hub post which contains links to older projects etc.

Hey all, it's about time I filled everyone in on where the current build is at.

Right now the build mostly does what I want it to do and I estimate I could theoretically release a bughunt version in about four days or close to it. If I don't run into anything unexpected. But it's... well... really small.

That's partly because I've been splitting my attention which is a silver bullet to my effectiveness at doing anything. I suck at multi whatever. But it's also because the original plan from way back during the development of book 1 was still at the scope of book 1... limited.

In essence I don't dislike that and wanna keep it that way, but I'm also incredibly undecided on whether I shouldn't give it more time and attention. I'm at that perfectly balanced moment where my mind is of two opinions. The worst place ever!

So the release date of the bughunt is still a question mark, but early access is definitely something which won't happen this month.

One of the other things I've been doing this month is putting together a credits list. Yes, it's that higher tier perk which I've been waiting on to include once the the game was finished.

Problem is, Patreon's csv-files for the earlier years of MITY won't download properly. I'm just getting empty csv files. With the same filters and whatnot I can download the latest years without a sweat, but older ones... empty.

So I wrote the patreon people and asked whether I'm messing up somehow(which is perfectly possible) or whether it's a problem on their end. Still waiting on their answer or that moment when I realize it's somehow something I did after all.

If you don't want to be put in the credits for whatever reason, just send me a dm and I'll take you out of them. Even if you asked me before, please send it in once more to make extra certain I got it.

Oh and I just want to say I'm still annoyingly happy with myself for the next build being the 1.0.0 version. It's the build which will have "The end"- message for the very first time so for it to coincide with it being one, zero, zero just scratches an itch in my mind which you'd have to have ocd for to understand.

Anyway, once I do release the early access version sometime in April (and nothing breaks down/blows up too badly) I think I'll take a break and ponder about what the future of MITY will look like during that time. Whatever I decide (and I really have zero plans/expectations) I think the first thing I'll do afterwards is start working on a new build for 18Titans. It feels like an eternity since I last touched that and I think there might a few people around who'd like to see that progress some more.

Oh, I almost forgot! Let's talk a bit about what I decided on for how the last chapter of FET deals with your earlier choices. I didn't want to be too much of a dick about things, so I'm keeping book 4 as the linchpin of what happens in the end.

Basically, I'm looking at whether you're coming into the last chapter from book 4's slave or love route. The end will for a large part depend on that choice. I thought that was a nice halfway solution. You don't have to replay all books just to see a different ending and it's still not making it as simple as a menu option in the last chapter which feels a bit too easy to me.

Some choices made in earlier books will also have an impact, but smaller and most options will just be a matter of your choices during the last chapter. I'm trying to keep it all centered around one definitive moment.

I think that's all... Normally two days ago would be about the time my inbox starts to fill up with questions about release dates, but you guys have been so quiet it's almost scary! I got a couple but that's it.

Okay, I'm gonna return to working on FET again.

Cheers!

Marty