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[jamesprimate]

getting through that ambiance audio. quite a collection going  : https://twitter.com/BRIGHTPRIMATE/status/701396605581271041

[Torchkas]

how bad is the cpu hog?

[Dinomaniak]

I will have a very rough question meant in the nicest way . I am only asking this because : I DESPERATELY WANT TO PLAY THE GAME :D .
What quarter will you be releasing RainWorld in ? :D all these posts about release have gotten me... BEYOND excited :D .

[JLJac]

@Dinomaniak, would love to give you something, but definitely can't at this point. Many people are involved in and affected by the release date and the release date announcement process, so not really up to me  

@Torchkas, we haven't noticed any trouble so far! The game only loads the sounds as they are actually needed, so they're not all in RAM at once. James has made a crazy amount of ambient sounds, but they're not all in the same room or even in the same region.

[jamesprimate]

So far so good on audio RAM stuff? Id be interested to see an audit on it though. Theres a few places (huge rooms with tons of stuff going on) where the audio hangs a bit, but joar is confident thats just loading fussiness and is easily fixable. A similar thing happened with the music loading and was fixed without much fuss, so fingers crossed.

Finally finished with ambience audio! (or at least got it to a reasonable place to move on from...) Didnt take all that long IRL, only 2 weeks, but man in subjective time that was rough stuff. Its the sort of thing thats requires constant steady concentration to fine details over like, hours and hours and thousand screens, so it is *quite* fatiguing both mentally and aurally.

No rest for the wicked though, as im diving right into finishing up the SFX. There is still a ton of SFX triggers to be placed (once Joar gets done with his current project there will be an afternoon and change devoted to that), but for now at least i can catch up on some of the more recent creatures. And by "recent" i mean "Miros bird and lantern mouse" lol.

The slog continues!

[presidenthobbes]

Geez. The game has two regions that could be considered "final" regions, which one is more final depends a bit on your specific playthrough and how you count. They're Subterranean and Superstructure. I have spent significantly more than a month (working about 200%) on superstructure content.  Now I'm there again. James has also spent a month on it, but he says he will be passing over it at least twice again, maybe more. By now, superstructure has an insane amount of content. Not like, half the content of the game, but definitely, say... 6 times the content of a standard region. I hesitate to do the maths, but by the time we finish it we will have spent something like... 4 man-months on that region specifically. None of it has made it to the internet. The region is vast, but the sheer amount of stuff makes it a real problem to fit everything in in a way that doesn't become a complete cacophony and sensory overload from the very entrance room.

Not really sure what this post is about, probably just complaining  But yeah, that region 

So the end region depends on how we play, does that also mean there will be multiple endings as well?

[JLJac]

Very hesitant to go into detail on that as it's deep spoiler territory, but I can say as much that we have a thing planned out that isn't just a linear story with start, middle, end. From our experience on the convention floor people adopt very different play styles, and we want to encourage that within the actual framework of the game.

[presidenthobbes]

Very hesitant to go into detail on that as it's deep spoiler territory, but I can say as much that we have a thing planned out that isn't just a linear story with start, middle, end. From our experience on the convention floor people adopt very different play styles, and we want to encourage that within the actual framework of the game.

Sounds exciting. On a similar note, I know you can't release a release date, but can you release a date for releasing the date of the release date?

[orange08]

Very hesitant to go into detail on that as it's deep spoiler territory, but I can say as much that we have a thing planned out that isn't just a linear story with start, middle, end. From our experience on the convention floor people adopt very different play styles, and we want to encourage that within the actual framework of the game.

Sounds exciting. On a similar note, I know you can't release a release date, but can you release a date for releasing the date of the release date?

and if you can't do that, maybe you could release a release date for when you release a release date for the release date.

haven't commented on this game before, but I watched one of the gameplay videos from your kickstarter page(one where the slugcat dies by the rain), and it was fantastic, I really liked how you did the rain effect. I hope you can finish this game soon. Any reason why the topic doesn't use one of the icons that shows how far completed the game is?

[presidenthobbes]

Very hesitant to go into detail on that as it's deep spoiler territory, but I can say as much that we have a thing planned out that isn't just a linear story with start, middle, end. From our experience on the convention floor people adopt very different play styles, and we want to encourage that within the actual framework of the game.

Sounds exciting. On a similar note, I know you can't release a release date, but can you release a date for releasing the date of the release date?

and if you can't do that, maybe you could release a release date for when you release a release date for the release date.

haven't commented on this game before, but I watched one of the gameplay videos from your kickstarter page(one where the slugcat dies by the rain), and it was fantastic, I really liked how you did the rain effect. I hope you can finish this game soon. Any reason why the topic doesn't use one of the icons that shows how far completed the game is?

And if they can't do that, they can release a release date for a release date for releasing a release date for a release date.

[insaneinside]

GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP

My apologies.

[presidenthobbes]

 

[jamesprimate]

gentlemen! lets keep it positive in these threads 

[jamesprimate]

UPDATE: videogame development is hard 

[presidenthobbes]

UPDATE: videogame development is hard  

It was at that moment, after several years and 270 pages in a devlog, that james realized he dun f***ed up

[jamesprimate]

truer words have never been spoken. hopefully we'll have sone proper updates soon, pardon our silence as we crunch for a GDC build

[fall_ark]

truer words have never been spoken. hopefully we'll have sone proper updates soon, pardon our silence as we crunch for a GDC build

I guess it's going to be whole map + music and sound?

[Mark Mayers]

UPDATE: videogame development is hard 

yes

[gimymblert]

quality is hard

[JLJac]

Yeez, if you guys think our development is smooth sailing, let me comfort you by sharing that I had a pretty huge set back in one of the "set pieces" we're making - ie special extra cool rooms - and basically had to scrap 3 days of work 

Could salvage some of it though and I think that we're on a trajectory to an okay result! If anything, we've got persistence haha