Update

Hello everyone!    

We'd like to make a statement regarding the demo's delay:    

First, all work done for this mod is done in the free time of each developer. This amount of time changes for each of us each day, the variance is immense. One week we’ll knock out several glaring issues and the next none of us are online. We saw what we could do at our best, and naively set our goals to that. This is one of our missteps as a team, and we have many others that aren’t exactly as cut and dry as setting ourselves unrealistic expectations.    

Second, we all had that “just one more thing” and for a while none of us had the restraint to not push for our one thing. With all the extras getting pushed in, things that needed to get in were being left behind, and the new things started mudding what was demo content and what wasn’t. We then had to draw a line in the sand to keep or shelve things. Which lead to people pushing their one thing anyway, which lead to conflict and clashes in vision, tension in the team, and ultimately less getting done.   

Third, poor communication. As said before, our volunteers work when they have time. Which leads to us asking a question of “is this done” and getting a “it was done a week ago” or “I thought X already did it” a day later. We’ve tried to implement light project management strategies to address this, but none have worked due to inexperience with those strategies. There exist several project boards out there for this project and none of them have an appropriate set of members to see and work on them. It’s getting better as time goes on and we adapt these strategies to the way we work, but it’s far from perfect, making predicting end dates for projects difficult.   

Fourth, those darn play testers. They keep finding bugs, issues, inconsistencies, typos, and crashes. Which is great! But that does mean more time fixing it. At the time of writing, we have over 200 action items left to sort through. Some are simple, some are hurdles the greater community never approached, but we are trying to.  All of this to say, we really misjudged what we could do, and set an aggressive deadline for it. Working with this game is hard, working with people is hard, but we are working hard.    

Demo is still a thing. At the moment it's at its 'final' phase of testing and it will come out whenever it's ready.