Weekly Update

Busy, tired, and generally blech. It is that time of year. Christmas is coming and there is so much to do. While I would like to give you all a new release as a Christmas present, realistically it is not going to happen. Early in the new year though, ...

In the game building side of things, there are fun things to do and then there are things that you just have to grind away at until they are done. I am kind of in one of the grind tasks at the moment. Once I get through that though, progress should be quicker.

This is one of the menu screens I am working on. It is not yet finished, but it will essentially be click on card to talk to character (or entice them into doing more than talking ...)

Weekly Update

Another slow-ish week. It is about 2 weeks to my Christmas hols and that should help things move along a bit more.

Most of my focus this week was on getting the scene below done. It is the background for one of the main selection screens so it has been important to get done. The Black Friday sales are over and we got a bit of stuff. 50% off on some of the resources we need for the game help to stretch the budget.

Everyone has been making progress on their scenes, and I should be starting to get some of those into the game soon.

Weekly Update

It has been a slow week this week. Real life has gotten in the way for a few of us, but we are still moving forward at least.

I am concentrating on coding and support graphics right now and am setting up the main screens for the different areas of the Palace.

If you have tried out the last release, you will have already seen the navigation screen for the player's apartment.

Now I have to do similar screens for visiting court, the gardens, other peoples quarters.

We are still a bit aways from the next release and it may have a lot of placeholder graphics in it, but with some time off over Christmas I hope to have something substantial early in the new year.

Weekly Update

Well, it has been and week and not a highly productive one for me. Still I have put the first of the Kitaxxa scenes into the game and I am debugging it right now.

There probably won't be a release for a few weeks at least. The Kitaxxa scenes are more for the middle of the game and not the beginning. The artists are mostly working on the critical scenes first, not taking it it game order.

I will be working on things in game order now though for a while and you may see a lot of placeholder images in the next release, but hopefully you will start to get a better idea of what part 2 of the game is like.

BGrisset has just started to work on some of the Cerise images that are used in the early part of Part 2 so you will be seeing some excellent images soon I am sure.

This week I will leave you with one of my favourite pieces of architecture which you will see a little of in Part 2. It is the main Audience Hall for the Court of the Crimson Empress. (This first scenes or Part 2 are in the smaller private hall.)

Weekly Update

It has been a quiet week for us this week. Release 1.4 seems to be reasonably sound from the lack of comments which is not bad considering there has been over 400 downloads.

MedialFiles gives us total download numbers and Release 1.2.3 has had over 11,000 downloads which is pretty amazing I think.

There were some great suggestions in the survey. The card images are all rendered at twice the resolution you see them on the screen, so I am sure we can have some way of looking at those in full resolution as someone suggested.
The first Kitaxxa set of images is now complete and I am putting them into the game, reworking some of the code as I go.

A large part of Part 2 is about winning friends and allegiances through seducing them and having them fall for you basically. With Kitaxxa though, you do have to be careful not to get her too excited or you may need medical attention ...

New Release

You can download the new release here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/hb6lhol5hzf467g/ROCE-R1.4.0-all.zip
Caution, this is a large download for only a relatively small amount of new content. Most of the work is in the new spell system which is not really triggered until later in the game.
If you get to a screen where you cannot work out what to do, click on the tent.
This update concludes the introductory material for Part 2. After this you get to start playing card games again.

Survey Results

 Thankyou to everyone who responded to our survey. There was a lot of great information in there.

Congratulations respondent # 102 (of 115) for winning the draw. Your sponsor's site login details are in your EAZ inbox.

The basic statistics from the responses are below.

There were some great suggestions and I will be working through them as well.

There was a great suggestion about translations in exchange for access to the deluxe edition and we will look at that when the game is getting close to done. Translating too soon will be a maintenance nightmare I feel.

I will be looking at the alternate dark path closely. I think the animations are a given. The dark path will depend on what we can earn through comic sales and other revenue streams as we will not use the crowd funding money for that (and it is already fully committed).

For the dark path, we will need to work out if we can do something meaningful and interesting with the money we raise before we do it.

Summary

Would you buy a deluxe version of Redemption of the Crimson Empress or just stick with the free version?

I will just play the free version	17	15%
I will play the free version and if I like it will buy the deluxe version.	65	58%
I will buy the deluxe version.	21	19%
I will pirate the deluxe version.	3	3%
I will pirate the deluxe version and if it is really good, I will buy it.	7	6%

What would be a fair price for the deluxe version?

$5	10	9%
$10	32	29%
$15	38	34%
$20	20	18%
$30	2	2%
I would not buy it.	9	8%

What feature would you most like to see in the deluxe version?

Animated Scenes	53	46%
An alternate darker path through the story (where Bailey goes to the dark side)	55	48%
Other	6	5%

What would be your second choice for features in the deluxe version?

Animated Scenes	55	51%
An alternate darker path through the game	37	34%
Other	16	15%

Comic plus bonus access to deluxe material/version

No thanks	64	56%
I would pay $10 for that.	38	33%
I would pay $20 for that.	12	11%

Preferred Language

English	95	84%
Deutsch	5	4%
Français	4	4%
Polski	2	2%
русский	1	1%
Español	2	2%
Italiano	2	2%
Other	2	2%