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Post by Dave on Oct 11, 2010 5:04:42 GMT
Just a note to anyone interested: Book 7 is now officially at 50% completion. Despite having no time at all to work on it, the occasional weekend binge is giving some real progress toward the next release. You'll also be pleased to note that the next release will contain quite a few new awards, spreading things out a little more evenly with a greater number of Easy/Moderate Awards for those who are a little less fanatical about LW, but still enjoy "achievements."
For Sommerlund and the Kai!
(I'll post again when another "milestone" is hit - 75% maybe?)
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Post by nenjin on Oct 14, 2010 5:36:40 GMT
Wewt! Was saving up Book 6 so I could play them both back to back, but I may have to dive in now.
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Post by huanchoo on Oct 15, 2010 14:02:10 GMT
im saving up the whole magnakai series if i can... wanna play it at 1 go...
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Post by pi4t on Oct 17, 2010 16:24:10 GMT
Come on, come on...is it at 75% yet? 65? 55? 51???
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Post by Dave on Oct 18, 2010 6:34:01 GMT
I spent some time today making my editor even quicker at some common tasks that I kept spending more time on than I wanted to. So, once I did that, I zipped through entering all of the rest of book 7. Just need to test it out. So, I'd say overall completion rate is now at 75%.  |
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Post by pi4t on Oct 18, 2010 18:54:54 GMT
Hooray! Let's see, you posted 50% exactly one week ago, so it should be ready on the 25th, right? (  ) |
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Post by Dave on Oct 19, 2010 6:03:41 GMT
Actually, book 7 is 99% done now (testing goes very quickly!) I've got some other stuff I'm working on with the program, such as:
- a different method of tracking which weapons are used (or no weapons used) in combat.
- new way of storing info about items in the save files - reduces save file size considerably, though that is only a secondary benefit.
- expanded possibilities of bonuses/penalties for weapons
- misc small cosmetic fixes to the rendering of buttons and section text. (All punctuation is outside the button now. Much cleaner looking. Fixed spacing issues with buttons/punctuation and footnotes.)
- and of course, lots of new awards yet to be programmed in... Basically, once those are in, the next release will come out. As usual, I give no estimates as to exactly when.
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Post by Kai Lord Lone Wolf on Oct 20, 2010 22:23:35 GMT
You should make it where you can save anywhere in a book... or maybe you did, I don't remember... Anyway... These are the greatest books ever. Thanks Dave. I think I love you, man! Jokin'.
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Post by Dave on Oct 20, 2010 22:29:54 GMT
You can indeed select "Allow saving at any time" as a Gameplay option when you begin a campaign. It always will put your game into a "Custom" ruleset, and that disqualifies you from earning awards or Hall of Fame status... but it's definitely an option!
(Edit: It's not a new option. It's been there since the pre 1.0 beta release)
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Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2010 23:51:53 GMT
I've been working on getting the new awards into Seventh Sense. There are now a total of 65 awards for books 1-5 (incl. series awards), compared to 25 previously!
Once I finish adding Magnakai awards, the next release will probably be ready for public consumption.
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Post by Dave on Oct 30, 2010 22:27:46 GMT
Awards are coded in and tested. Now I just need to tweak some Award medal images, and incorporate a couple of small enhancements... Sounds fairly simple - just gotta find the time to do it!
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Post by Dave on Nov 5, 2010 17:44:03 GMT
I did a number of tweaks and enhancements, and now, I gotta stop(meaning - I can't take it anymore! fiddling with pixels is slow and frustrating ay times...). There will be more adjustments made to some of the images for medals in books 1-7 in a future release (most especially the Kai series awards...), but for now, I'm just going to release what I've got done.
Mckinstry did come up with a couple of very nice new medals for the bounty hunter and charitable feats awards that I think you'll really like!
Anyway, everything's loaded onto the web, and I'll update threads and the website shortly.
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Post by Dave on Nov 8, 2010 6:44:44 GMT
There will be more adjustments made to some of the images for medals in books 1-7 in a future release (most especially the Kai series awards...), but for now, I'm just going to release what I've got done. I didn't realize it would only be 2 days later, but I had some time today and used it to good effect - the new medals are pretty darn sweet. I especially like the Epic Failure medals, since none of them are actual medals, but are images taken from the various books. And all of the Mischievous Feats now have appropriate wanted posters, featuring the mugs of some of the ugliest and greasiest characters you meet in the books. Enjoy! |
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