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Hi,

I just completed the code for V1.00 BETA! I'll be running the remaining tests today and tomorrow.

This was way closer than I thought. I met the two biggest Foes of of every Game Programmer: Feature Creep and Polish Vortex... :)

V1.100 will definitely be a story based  stability release for a change...

y.v.

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NFinity

Fantastic news! Thank you for enduring and working through the foes.

Piotr Sulecki

The feature creep I know all too well. But it's the first time I hear the term "Polish Vortex". When googling it, I can find a lot of ads and articles about nail polish, and some "subscription required" articles about Polish politics. What exactly does the term mean?

y.v.

It means that as a programmer you sometimes get obsessed with some small detail of gameplay and beautify and polish the code or art assets over and over, thus being sucked into a vortex of lost time :)

Piotr Sulecki

Oh yeah, that one I know, too... Didn't know it has a name. PS. I'm Polish, and I was unsure if the term was offensive. Obviously, it isn't.

y.v.

The best proverb in that regard is a Japanese one: Ari no shokkaku wo migaku, which means sth like "polishing an ant's antennae". That captures the obsessing over minute details best .)

Oddora

Is there a place where we can read about the features we should expect in this update?

y.v.

There's the posts of the last three weeks with individual features but there is no consolidated feature list post. Will make that as soon as the BETA is out tomorrow.