Hey everyone! We had a busy week and these are some of the highlights……
The team made the friend request notifications smarter, so once you’ve sent a request you aren’t constantly reminded of it. We worked out a few lingering sitemap issues that were causing URLs to point in the wrong places. The team fine tuned the sidebar navigation following some of your suggestions. We hope it’s a much more intuitive clicking experience for you now. Thanks for the feedback! We smoothed out a number of styling and color problems on the blog and squashed a few minor layout related bugs there as well.
In the meeting, we discussed social links and if our energies would be better focused on providing useful in-game stats for players about their characters and houses. Instead of spending weeks tweaking the Facesnap or Twitterbook API’s, we decided to devote our time on systems that would benefit our players more directly.
We’ve started looking into how best to integrate Discord so our players can easily ask us questions and keep better apprised of our development process. Ideally, we’d end up on a channel with all our alpha users and let em chat with us there, or something. In the short term, players can add a link to their Discord user profile in the social settings.
Also this week, we should be getting our trueSky source license. Top minds are on it, the tippyest toppiest! We hope to have our sky looking a little more awesome gorgeous soon.
We’re starting to make a framework for our quest system so you can feel like you have a purpose while running around and get rewards. We’re also finishing up on how the inventory works, you have to put your stuff somewhere, and a couple of game mechanics including: cooking, crafting, and combat.
We’re working on a catalog of sorts for game items that users can look through. It will be separated by item type: clothes, weapons, medical equipment, etc. Items will be accompanied by a picture, game statistics, a description of what it is, and even how it works in some cases. We look forward to eventually reading the product reviews and seeing how many stars you give the travel size Leiomano.
We made a lot of other important decisions too. For instance, we decided that 127, the element used to provide power to some of the game’s most futuristic technology, is likely to cause genital cancers if inhaled. So there’s that…..
Here’s a look at the inside of the Thorcon plant. Hazmat suits or at the very least, lead underwear, is advised. We’ll have another update, with more eye candy, later this week.
