Part 2 Sponsorship

Crowd Funding has now closed at Offbeatr. Thankyou everyone who supported us. It was touch and go for a while, but we made our base target with minutes to spare. :O

http://offbeatr.com/project/redemption-of-the-crimson-empress-part-2-67812055153

Friday 25 April 2014

Next Alpha is ready

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs this week. It has kept me busy. :)

A bug that prevented progress with the High Priestess story line has been cleared as well as a few others.

Full download is here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/z0ixwaaqodk32s5/ROCER1.7.3-all.zip or you can use the built in Updater if you already have version 1.7.0 or later.

I was hoping to get some more artwork in this week, but it was not to be. :(

Hopefully next week. :)

Monday 21 April 2014

More images for Patrol section

I have just put up a new release which you can get via the updater or the full download is here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/a936vrzxt7v47t7/ROCER1.7.2-all.zip

There are half a dozen new images in the Patrol section for Jade as well as a bug fix for visiting Taeleine in her room.

Sunday 13 April 2014

New Alpha Release

Apologies to everyone on lots of fronts:
  • This Alpha changes a lot of events, so saves will not be compatible. They will work, but you will get stuck if you have made any significant progress on part 2.
  • The events were pretty much all there, but they were not connected up properly. I actually made things a little worse in the last few patches. Stepping back and analysing it properly was what I should have done some time ago.
  • This does mean that you will probably find new bugs in parts of the game we thought were already fixed.

As well as fixing the events, this patch fixes a small issue with the updater where it was bring down extra files it did not need to. This will speed up the update process a bit.

The full download is here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/w0x7xx4bv42l7cb/ROCER1.7.1-all.zip

If you have 1.7.0 already, you can just use Get Updates from within the game.

Please note that this release has only had cursory testing from me. I can't guarantee anything at this point apart from the fact that it starts up and seems to run.

Saturday 12 April 2014

More is broken than I thought!

You know how it is when you get interrupted in the middle of something and when you come back to you don't quite pick up the threads correctly. Well, that's my excuse for why things are in worse shape than I expected with some of the events.

I went through and got a picture of what things did not hook up correctly this week and it was worse than I thought.

Now this things should look like a nice tree with some things not connected, but Tanzy2 being the final boss battle should be at the top, not connected to _Orphan which is where I put everything that is not connected to anything. :(

There are 10 blocks of conversation/events that are not connected to anything at the moment and a couple of things that are not in the right place. The good news is that now I know, I should be able to fix them pretty quickly. That will be my focus for this weekend.

By then, _Orphan should disappear and we should have a nicer tree. :)

Update:

I have been working on things today and mostly it is in much better shape, but I have changed things a lot. You will probably need to restart part 2 when the next release comes out. The event dependency tree now looks like this with the final boss battle at the top:



I still have some more kinks to iron out before I release, but most of the work is done I think.

Friday 4 April 2014

New Alpha Release

Hi Everyone,
                      The Alpha release is here along with the update feature. It's still a bit rough, but it works ok. It does get a little confused and update somes files every time. I am working on fixing that.

There are new images for Jade's encounter with the flower trap. Choose the "Play Dumb" route to see them. Oh and yes, that mostly leads to a bad end, but you can beat. I did it with about 4 or 5 tries. :)

The patch is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/690dw68crd8aow8/ROCER1.7.0-P-all.zip

You MUST delete the renpy folder in your current version before applying the patch as renpy has been updated in the patch. Merging the folder causes a conflict and you will get an error as reported in the comments below.

You MUST use Get Updates from the main menu before you play as this patch does not include any images.

If you have not downloaded before, you can use the following for a full download:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/n3ed61527eaxi9c/ROCER1.7.0-all.zip

NOTE: This is an Alpha release. The older versions to the right are more Beta quality, but do not go as far. Please also note that the game is probably not completable right now. There are bugs in some of the events and I am still sorting through it all.

Right now, I am focusing on artwork and game play for the Patrol section, so that is where you will see the most movement for a while.

Cheers, Oncardam.