Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-10)

Post by infiniteignorance » Thu May 10, 2018 6:12 pm

The more content per episode the longer it will be before someone nags you about when the next episode is being released.

Also, if we can JFR to not give away the nuclear codes this time ... :lol:

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by Wolfschadowe » Sat May 26, 2018 3:56 pm

Status text from Patreon:
Wolfschadowe wrote:Hello everyone. Decent progress the past couple weeks. The release has grown a little bigger as concepts get story-boarded, but still made some progress pulling the Beta release to testing a couple days closer. A lot of the past couple weeks for me has been reworking the automated testing framework for the game. I had been using Selenium IDE, but it was limited to Firefox testing, and the new Firefox that came a year ago broke it.
So I have just completed moving our test framework over to Katalon Studio so that we can automatically test the entire game automatically. At least, we will be able to once I get all the scripts updated and converted. It's a pretty big task, but the payoff is that I will be able to tell it to "test the game" and it will fire up 10 or 15 or however many my computer can support browsers, each playing through a different game path, and make sure that path works properly. The bonus is that the new framework is a lot faster in creating the new tests as new pages for the game are created.

Moving on to more specific Episode 8 information, the bar scene consists of 3 major parts. The first part is completely finished. The second part is fully "in-flight" (Meaning everything is out of the concept stage and moving across the board.) and the first few cards of the final part of the scene are beginning to move into the Storyboard and Preliminary Logic phases. The board above is a compressed version of the full board below.
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That's it for this update. Thank you all for all of your continued patience and support!
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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by infiniteignorance » Sat May 26, 2018 6:57 pm

Thanks for the update.

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by jackallstar » Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:24 am

Can I know when will this update released?
Hope there are some content with Jasmine too.
Imagine that sexy ass :shock:

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by JFR » Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:18 am

jackallstar wrote:
Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:24 am
Can I know when will this update released?
Hope there are some content with Jasmine too.
Imagine that sexy ass :shock:
The latest estimate can be found in the first post of this thread. It shows the planned release date for Episode 8 to be around July 9. That is only an estimate and could be adjusted somewhat between now and then.

Jasmine is certainly a cutie but she got some extra attention in the last episode. Episode 8 will concentrate mostly on Faith.

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by Wolfschadowe » Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:13 pm

jackallstar wrote:
Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:24 am
Can I know when will this update released?
I might be able to put out an emergency hot-fix in the next day or two that will apply automagically to anyone who has online features enabled in their game. It depends on the nature of the bug once I have it fully identified and the fix confirmed. If the hot-fix goes out, the game version with online features enabled will change to 1.7.4+ (The plus sign indicates that a hot-fix is in place) The hot-fixes are stored similar to achievements, so clearing browser cache clears hot-fixes as well as achievements.)

If I can't push out the hot-fix, then the fix will likely come with Episode 8.

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by JFR » Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:29 pm

The post above was in response to a request made in another thread, in case anyone is confused. I'll put a pointer in that thread directing folks here.

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by Thrawn4 » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:02 pm

How does the progress on ep. 8 going?Will it be on schedule?

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-05-26)

Post by lurking » Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:17 pm

Which schedule?

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by Wolfschadowe » Sun Jul 08, 2018 4:35 pm

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First of all, I owe everyone an apology for not keeping up with status updates. I really will try to be better about it. I truly appreciate all of your support and patience and encouragement!
As I continue working through the episode, I came to realize that the original estimate was not quite enough to tell the full story through to the next natural stopping point on the planned paths. This has resulted in the size of the episode growing by half again the original. This is also combined with a the unavailability of some of the great folks who have been helping out with the game, shifting much of the load back to me. Additionally, the complexity of the scene chews up our one active artists computer, slowing her down a lot, so I've picked up a bit of the artwork again myself to help speed up that aspect...which has slowed some other aspects.
The end result is simply more time before episodes. I know it's a long wait, and really appreciate everyone's patience!
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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by infiniteignorance » Sun Jul 08, 2018 5:40 pm

168 hours remaining. So, it should be ready by next Sunday if you remain focused. :lol:

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by az89 » Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:29 pm

any continuation with azumi on the college?

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by JFR » Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:47 pm

az89 wrote:
Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:29 pm
any continuation with azumi on the college?
Not yet. That will be coming in a future episode. I would suggest having several good save-games for that scene. They will come in handy later.

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by Wolfschadowe » Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:49 pm

az89 wrote:
Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:29 pm
any continuation with azumi on the college?
Tentatively scheduled for Episode 10

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Re: Episode 8 Status (2018-07-08)

Post by Shepard » Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:02 am

Just out of curiosity, then... any tentative schedules for Jasmine content?

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