Hey everyone, in this Desktop Tuesday, we conclude our sequence on how a feature goes from idea into the game by talking about how we use your feedback to tune and test the conversation feature. Also, if you enjoy Desktop Tuesday, please take this survey to help us with future Desktop Tuesdays.
http://www.stonehearth.net/dt-tuning-conversations/
Other announcements:
Stream! This week, we have another engineering stream, as Angelo continues his exploration of the modding infrastructure. Streams happen at 6:00pm, PST, on www.twitch.tv/stonehearth.
Also, Desktop Tuesday will be suspended next week due to American 4th of July. We return on Tuesday, July 11th.
Team & Schedule Updates! The team has spent an increasing amount of time over the last few weeks on long-term projects–building, water, tech-debt, and high-level metagame design. Instead of starting work on Alpha 23 immediately after finishing Alpha 22, the most of the team will focus on bringing these projects to a good place before returning to feature work. This means that over the course of the next couple months, please expect only modest gameplay updates to A22–bugfixes, healing and pets, for example, before we begin work on A23 and our next gameplay target–updates to our crafting system–in late summer/early fall.