Hi all,
The big change since the last update is not with the game client, but with content generation. We're now using an AI text generator to create newspaper articles. The writing gets cleaned up a little by human editing, but it's amazing what a trained generator can do these days (scary really - misinformation has a new tool). The quality of storytelling surprised all of us. We'll still accept writing from the general public, but the lack thereof is no longer an impediment to seeing the newspaper feature reach its potential.
Besides that, the latest build may help the client respond better to the player being sent to prison. It needs more testing to determine just how effective it may be in doing so. Kudos to BuddsModernLife for uncovering just how messed up that interaction is/was.
In personal news, I've accepted a new teaching job I'm excited about. It doesn't start till this fall, but these past weeks I've been frantically packing and preparing for my relocation to Upstate NY. Continued work on this game right now is far from my mind at the moment.
Nuvya Dutt, on the other hand, is interested in putting her website construction skills to the test for the good of the project. Can't wait to see what she puts together. If anyone has any content, blogs or what-not, that you think might help flesh out that work, let's get that to her.
Speaking of visibility, we should pass 5,000 unique views of the game store page on Steam this week.