Hi everyone,
As you may be aware, the date of Jalopy has gone back by about one week to the 22nd of April. There are a couple of reasons for this and I'll happily share details on what we need to work on and why this decision has been made.
Firstly, we came across a rather nasty bug that we have seen some players experience but it had been quite difficult for us to reproduce. This bug caused the game to not display text. One of the problems with this bug is that it seems to affect a number of players in countries outside of the UK. Development is based in England, so we had not come across this issue and were only made aware of it recently.
As you can expect, this nasty bug will cause quite a lot of issues and it is vital that we try to eliminate this before it is released. We are working very hard to stomp this out and hope we can fix it very soon. While we are hoping to fix this bug as soon as possible, we felt an extra week of development may also give us just a little bit more time to polish up the Early Access release too.
We know there are a lot of you who are looking forward to the game, a delay is a tough decision we had to make but it is vital that we release the best game we can at launch. While the game will be in Pre-Alpha on release and we admit it will still contain a selection of bugs, issues and unfinished features. Development will thrive on the recommendations of our players, so we need to make sure that everyone can enjoy the game when they boot it up.
Jalopy will release very soon! And we really cannot wait for you all to play it.