State of the Eclipse

Greetings! I am still here, and am still getting the game in order. I had to take some time off to recharge, since I had been at it non-stop and it was starting to take a toll on me creatively. A few things though that will be changing in future releases. The first thing is that I bit off more than I could chew trying to make this a game when my original goal was an interactive VN where you made choices that let you choose which parts of the story you want to see.  I am going to be spending the next few weeks changing some big aspects of the game. First, I am ditching the clunky city map in favor of a menu based one. This will allow me to add places to the game faster and easier (note that the current manor navigation will be the same, with some minor tweaks, I will be using menu based navigation going forward for the most part.). Third, I want to focus on the story more, so I will be removing some of the newer stuff that I had just put in and will replace it with a MUCH simpler system in the future (again, went too big and lost focus of what I wanted to make this originally), which has nothing to do with the current available versions of the game, so nothing will really change on that front. Fourth, I will need to spend some time to reduce the file size. I am almost at 3 GB in size and growing rapidly, I need to research how to reduce picture sizes while keeping them looking good still. Fifth, and no less important, I need to see about fixing the transition screens between video scenes to not flash a transparent grid, it bugs me. Sixth, I will be revamping the reward levels to reflect better what I can do each and every month.

I will be playing the game myself from the start to see what I may need to change and tighten up story wise, and testing as I go. This may take a while, so please be patient.  Expect the next release no sooner than October 1st of this year.  So not too far off, but WAY longer than I want. In the end though, this will make it easier and faster for me to pump out content to my standards. Just some wrinkles.  Thank you.

-EroChaser

Update: I launched the game and it worked, but ALL of the new code I put into the game is gone! Which is fine, I was nuking it anyway. It was good, but too much work to make work in a proper way. Time to fine tune this game!