It’s been a while since we’ve caught up on development - I’ve been very busy, err, catching up on development! With the assistance of Mattrex, DoItToJulia, and her corral of supporting writers, we’ve been pushing the main plotline forwards as fast and hard as – as, well, a dragon might. There will be no update this month, because we are getting ready to release version 6 next month.
Version 6?
Yes, we have officially decided to stop fooling ourselves, and to start calling an Act an Act. Act V Chapter Two pushed Ravager over 1.5 million words (not including code!); it is now officially Act VI, and we are updating our version numbers to match. The last parts of Act VI are being finalised and playtested now – they’d be done already, but we decided to add quite a lot of bonus treats for you all, so you can look forward to those.
The Final Act
We have already begun work on the first elements of Act VII (formerly Act V Chapter Three). In keeping with our drive to finish the main plotline, we’re initially focusing entirely on the very most exciting elements: the decisive resolution of any Realm-scale threats (friendly or otherwise), getting crowned, and (most likely) getting married to your betrothed of choice. There will be a few twists and turns along the way, but I don’t want to spoil the surprises!
When all this is done, and we’ve tidied up any missing elements, we will consider ourselves to have reached main release. But our work will not stop there! Wedding nights, your draconic progeny, final scenes with all of your waifus (and husbandos), epilogues... there’s a lot we’d like to add, and we want to do that with the main release already under our belt (and without holding up the conclusion to the story!).
And once all of those are done, we can start thinking about expansions. I have some ideas.