Hi all!
# Progress Report
Journey Express is coming to Steam Early Access soon! I hope to have a release date sorted out in the near future! I can't wait to hear your feedback on what is done so far!
Since the last update, I've been on bug patrol fixing lots of issues all over the place and polishing rough areas. My focus going forward will be playtesting and building out any remaining functionality that I find to be missing ahead of Early Access.
## Release notes:
Feature: Implement more character traits
Enhancement: Polish UI in a few places (dialog and crossing manager)
Enhancement: Improve debugging tools in runtime
Enhancement: Tune fog across several weather presets
Enhancement: Optimize biome check for each map cell -- now much more efficient than before
Fix: Fix issue with held items in exploration
Fix: Fix deserialization issue losing track of injuries and sicknesses from save file
Fix: Fix null reference exceptions from updating party status UI too early on scene load
Fix: Fix water shader not respecting fog
Fix: Resolve issue causing splats to not update for given season in exploration
Fix: Fixed issue preventing river crossing UI from working
Fix: Added missing caption to traveling salesman event dialog
Change: Make overrides more explicit in the exploration code for desert and mountains to fix various issues
Change: Remove calls to UI that no longer is used in exploration (HUD)
Change: Increase base walk and run speeds in exploration (again)
# Project Status Update
Journey to Alpha: Achieved!
Journey to Playtesting: Achieved!
Journey to Early Access: Coming soon!
Journey to Release: Coming soon!
Discord Server:
Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/starcatgames.ltd
I have since moved on to Bluesky for all social media updates! Feel free to follow me there! :)
Thanks for reading!
- C