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Told ya.

Finished coding the second act main plot today!!
Starting tomorrow will add the map and recheck everything, since before the scenes would happen in sequence, while when the map is there player can have more freedom deciding where to go. Also need to check the quests amount, locations, etc.
So still quite work, but is the 3rd July so in 11-12 days should make it

So delighted to hear this!

jack1974 wrote:Finished coding the second act main plot today!!
Starting tomorrow will add the map and recheck everything, since before the scenes would happen in sequence, while when the map is there player can have more freedom deciding where to go. Also need to check the quests amount, locations, etc.
So still quite work, but is the 3rd July so in 11-12 days should make it

I know you still have a ways to go, but I assume you will want try and put SOTW on Steam, so you may wish to put up it up on Greenlight before the release date

I am waiting for a voiceover actress to do some lines for a trailer... but I've been waiting since a month. I want to do it voiced since has much more impact than just texts, I think maybe I'll be forced to replace her. The main problem is that she already did the battle lines of the bard character and they were good
(the intro is spoken by Jariel so should be same voice)

jack1974 wrote:I am waiting for a voiceover actress to do some lines for a trailer... but I've been waiting since a month. I want to do it voiced since has much more impact than just texts, I think maybe I'll be forced to replace her. The main problem is that she already did the battle lines of the bard character and they were good
(the intro is spoken by Jariel so should be same voice)

we'll wait. =)

Huh, I always mute the steam commercials anyway.

I've reached already scene11, I think I'm going to change slightly the text there, since is safe to do it at that point (before would mess up with the story and can't do it). The way was written, there's a succession of events a day after another, which of course is cool (also at those times I didn't even think I would have the iso map, so I didn't tell anything to the writer that just did his job).
I will simply change the last battle to happen in a week, so players have 7 days to roam around Dingirra one last time before the final battle, which I think could be useful to get better equipment etc. Besides I coded the map much faster than I thought, so probably will add some SHORT / SMALL sidequest or just fun stuff to discover
Without this change, the beta could be ready even tomorrow, but I want to give players a bit more time to explore the town. Plus maybe the artist in those days can finish the banner/big arena image still missing from the tileset !

Maybe I should go out a bit more now that the sun is out and the weather is nice. but compared to SOTW... which is out soon... maybe just the few days until the second act is released.

This means I will be able to support a certain starving indie-developer by throwing money at the screen?

Well I expect there'll be bugs in act 2 like happened in the first, so you might want to skip the first days of testing I don't think will release act 2 before this weekend anyway!