2014-01-20 The Start of a Promising Year
Hail Friends,
I have some good news to present as well as some changes to note. Firstly, I would like to welcome Fearyourself to the team. He will be helping us with DLL hacking the game’s executable, so that we can do a lot more with the game than is currently possible with just external files. First up is developing a better error logging system so that we can better diagnose some of the more persistent crashes. Then we will move into hacking in a conversation DLL that will allow us to easily write new dialogue. We are not taking in dialogue writers at this time, but I’ll let you know when we are. In addition, our previous DLL hacker HCl has returned and will be able to continue assisting us in some ways just perhaps in a more limited fashion due to his own time constraints.
I also have some big(ish) news to report on. Due to the world map being one large file, most every fix I make to the game would have to be duplicated for Beautiful Britannia. So I’m going to merge the patches project into Beautiful Britannia to save on time (and repetitiveness on my part). So don’t expect the next patch until Firstknight is ready for his next release, but this should mean that the game world will be significantly improved from a bug perspective. No promises on NPC scheduling for Beautiful Britannia, though. Of course Forgotten World will have NPC schedules on top of new dialogue.
As for the poll, it looks like people generally want more magic in the game, so expect to see it be a useful (but largely optional tool throughout the game), especially within our much improved and larger dungeons – definitely going to be lots of places to explore in these bits.
Now for our next poll, we want to know what sort of additional features you would most like to see in the game. Note that each of these options will require DLL hacking in some fashion. Just a note about the new weapons option on the poll, this is referring to weapons like more kinds of hammers or poison blades. Crossbows will not be added into the game.
Also I added the new pictures of Moonglow to the Beautiful Britannia Screenshots page. Enjoy.
– Iceblade
