Dev-Log 02-10-2022 (Patreon)

Hello folks,

after the latest release we wanted to give you an update on the next steps of the development and on what to expect with the coming release.

Remaster of the existing chapters

As I wrote in my last post we are going to pause extending the story and spend the next month on optimizing and expanding the current chapters. The reasons for doing this now are mainly:

1) Player feedback and request for a more balanced playstyle option

2) Adding an additional path to give more choices

3) Building the foundation for the next chapters

As I said the last time, all the coming releases will build upon that so the best time to do that is as soon as possible (meaning now).

We are confident that we can incorporate this rather quickly so it shouldn‘t take too long before we are back on track with expanding the story again.

Note - as already mentioned there‘s one caveat for this - you‘ll have to give the game a fresh start with the remastered release as we are changing variables and decisions, else you will run into error messages along the way. That‘s also one of the reasons we want to do this now and ideally in one-go, as you will only have to do one fresh start.

Versioning

As an additional point we are making the version numbering more consistent in the coming releases. As some of you already noted, the way we did it so far would lead us to version 1.0 way before we are actually done.

So what does that mean - as you see in the picture we will use a numbering scheme that uses: Version X.Y.Za

X - being the full chapter release. So 1.x will mean the first chapter is fully complete

Y - being the number for major content/story points in a chapter

Z - being the number to track content additions as per release (e.g. corrupt path, resist path, sidequests, etc.)

a - and the letter indicated tweaks with interface, bug fixes, etc.

So hopefully this will make it more consistent, but you will also see the version number increasing more sensible in the future.

Chapters

One comment on me using the word „chapters“ - before I manage to confuse everybody. The whole game is called (and we will reflect that in the next release as well) „Croft Adventures - The Crown of Desire“ - with „Hot Springs“ being the first full Chapter of that game.

I often use the word „chapter“ also to talk about chunks of the game, which would be more like a sub-chapter (e.g. the library). I‘ll probably start calling it a „sequence“ in the future to make a better distinction.

As always, we are grateful for your ongoing support and invite you to join our discord for discussion, feedback and questions.

Take care

Waahnubis& DesDraw