Rethinking the next couple of weeks.

Those of you who have been with us for a while should know by now that I tend to just tell it how it is rather than try to sweet talk my way through things.  In this case, I suspect that the vast majority of you won't mind at all, but since its something I've mentioned I wanted to accomplish, and it looks like I'll be falling little short of my goal, I figure I owe it to everyone to explain myself.

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Before I go into detail, I'm first going to mention that I've always promised one build a month, with a minimum of 3k words of content in each released build.  Before the rollout of Inheritance as an active project, we were releasing 2-3 times a month, and since Inheritance went active, releases have been weekly.  I mention this as frame of reference before continuing.

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As you all know, this weekend kicked my ass with a pretty bad cold that I'm still recovering from. (I do feel MUCH better today though.  Couple of days to hack all this mess out of my chest and I should be good as new!)  Add to that the fact that as I am getting better, the rest of my family is falling ill with what I'm getting over.  Needless to say, even though I deeply love my work, when I have to choose between working or taking care of my family, my family will always come first.

My plan going into last week was to work very hard and to try getting not only the next Wanton Cove build ready for testing, but to also get the next build of Inheritance close to a testing phase.  I accomplished that with little trouble.  I had then hoped to put the final touches on the Inheritance test over the weekend and into yesterday, . . . which unfortunately wasn't able to happen.  Once that was done, I had hoped to put Monday through Thursday morning into Wanton Cove in the hopes of getting the next build of that ready for testing before I had to leave for my trip.  

Since yesterday was a bust, and a storm coming through the area on Thursday is likely going to force us to depart that morning for our trip instead of that afternoon, this work week has been completely shot to hell.

I spent a lot of time thinking about this last night, and I eventually decided my best bet was to simply spend the rest of this week putting the final touches on the next Inheritance test build as time permits, then jump into Wanton Cove when I get home from my trip (Maybe working on it a bit during the trip if time permits.)

End result of all of this is that since this week is being spent playing catch up, and with my being on vacation with family next week, (Half of which will be drive time), we're going to miss a release window in a couple of weeks.

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Short Version:

-New build of Wanton Cove will be released late this week. New TEST build of Inheritance will be released late this week.

-New build of Inheritance will be released late next week.  No Wanton Cove TEST build this week like originally planned.

-The following week will most likely have no game release.  New Wanton Cove TEST Build late in the week.

-Following week things should start getting back to normal.

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Looking at the calendar, it looks like the affected release will be the first week of next year.  I hope it doesn't inconvenience anyone too badly.

Now, back to work!