Game Update

It’s finally happening! We are releasing the game on Steam Early access on Apr 22. I can’t believe this day is finally here! I had some hiccups with getting all my files in order but for the most part it seems to be solid now. My artist also managed to get me some images to fix the Hero and Logo capsule images.

Moving forward I will be focused on building the levels out first and working on the dialogue in the stages. I probably won’t add a lot of new enemy groups to the game right now during testing, but in the future I will probably build out some new squads after a first pass.

I have narrowed the text additions down to adding just a yes/no dialogue option at the end of a text chain which will do things like adjust the reputation, gold, or stats on troops making the choices. It would be nice in the future to do things like check for items (which don’t exist yet), check for specific party members, or recruit enemy troops but that will have to wait.

Focusing on a minimum viable product will be step one and then we will see what we have time to add on after that. I don’t think that any of the add on features that I’ve set aside for now will need something specific in the stages which will help.

Personal Update

Had a rough week. A triumph and some set backs. Still praying through a lot of it. Today especially I’m really focused on my girlfriend as things have come up and it’s become a bit complicated. I suppose that’s just how relationships are sometimes.

The boys are back now and I feel like this time I was pretty productive, almost managing to get all my taxes done which is a good feeling. I have a couple of items to double back on, but overall I’m in what seems to be good shape.

I’m not sure if I’m making headway with the hospital or not as I had a pretty gruff conversation with them this week as well. I spoke with some other people that use the same hospital and they are also having a lot of issues which probably means the problem is widespread. Honestly when it’s this bad I tend to blame the leadership.