Hello all you wonderful people - I hope you are all doing well on your end.
It's been an interesting week in terms of progression for Within Skerry. I always have the most fun building games in the final stages of development; unfortunately the final stages are also the most stressful :(
Here are some accomplishments (completion points) for Within Skerry I wanted to share with you all:
- Store page (Steam) is now 90% complete. All achievements have been added and connected to the game, all Store Page art work has been added, and a Beta version of the game has been uploaded to the Steam Pipeline for testing purposes.
- All assets in game have been finalized - all structures and places to explore have been completed, tested, and finalized.
- Ending 1 and 2 of the game have been completed and finalized.
- Localization has been completed for every component of the game (excluding Ending 3 and Easter Egg).
- Settings system has been completed and almost all game optimizations have been finalized!
Overall, a good chunk of work has been completed this past week and I think progress is moving along very smoothly. Here are some final works that need to be completed:
- Figure out what Ending 3 will be, execute it, test it, and localize it. Having a very hard time figuring out how to end the game smoothly, and tie it all together with the storyline. Only 9 days left to figure this out - no pressure :)
- I also need to figure out what kind of Easter Egg to add to the game. I am very triggered that my Easter Eggs in Suite 776 and Inside Depth 6 were located with such ease ( located within 1 week) - so I will do my damn best to prevent that from happening in Within Skerry. Of course, the Easter Egg will be difficult to obtain; however, it will be intuitive and fair, so long as you pay attention to some details :)
- And lastly, I need to add some final notes and pieces of story to the game (Symbolism, recordings, etc).
Phase 1 of testing is complete and tons and tons of bugs were discovered. There bugs have been promptly squashed, so I am hoping Phase 2 of testing will be full of ease :)
I suppose that is all I have to say for this week. Please, if you have and questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out or comment below - I will make it a priority of mine to answer any and all questions to the best of my ability when they come.
Stay safe and well everybody,
Cheers,
Stan. T