Hello everybody! Welcome to Development Log #4! I'm afraid I'm running very late today (it's 1:00am here as I'm writing this), and as such, this will have to be short and to the point. First of all, the most important news. As you may have seen, Claustrophobia has been Greenlit! A massive thank you to you all for your continued support throughout the campaign. I still can't quite believe that we made it.
Secondly, I'd like to talk about my release plans. Now that we're Greenlit, the new version of Claustrophobia will be hopefully heading to Steam Early Access around July 2014. While this may seem like quite a while away, please bare in mind that this is just an estimate, and is based on both when I consider the new alpha presentable, and on how much time I have to work on the project while I am at University. The current version of Claustrophobia will not be made available on Steam at all - instead it will remain on Desura until the new version, at which point it will be made available as a free download from our site. Please note: any purchases on Desura, including those made after today will be guaranteed the new version on both Desura and Steam, once it launches.
Finally, I'll quickly sum up what I've been working on this week. Unfortunately, I don't have anything to hand that I can show right now. I know I said I would have some new graphics, but nothing's really in a presentable state. We'll hold out for next week! This week has comprised of:
- Stairs and multiple level generation
- Hair styles with colour sliders
- Stat level scaling
- Wood textures. Everywhere. I now see wood textures in everything. Help me.
- Sorting out a lot of the pre-Steam requirements (today particularly)
And that's that. Just like last week, a lot of work is going into the code structure. I won't be making the same mistakes as last time. It's now 2:00am. Goodnight everyone. Until next week!
Cheers,
Dan
@theindieforge
"the new version of Claustrophobia will be hopefully heading to Steam Early Access around July 2014. While this may seem like quite a while away"
I hope that everyone does take this as an estimate and that you don't feel rushed. Too many times games release without that extra bit of polish and that initial impression is then hard to overcome when people later ask the "How is it" or "Is it worth it?"
I would happily wait longer to enable more testing, more feedback and more refinement.
Thanks for the updates :)