Very Close...

Incredibly close now.

All that's left is animating of one asset and two very small but important features that I can't do on my own. I wish I could say specifically how long it would take, as i can generally do on things I'm working on solo, but when it's stuff beyond my expertise such as 3D math, i can't speak for other people. All I can do is make their lives miserable until they give me what I want :P

Really wish I could show some screenshots but that would spoil the surprise. By the time the new campaign starts up and it's all "out there", you'll understand ;)

That's all!

Back In Business!

Special thanks to 12:01 computers in Portland Oregon for working tirelessly to get my shit back up and running. UPS still hasn't responded to my insurance claim.

On a more positive note, long nights and TV dinners are back to being a part of my daily routine. Fortunately enough progress was made before the event that even with a week down I'm still somewhat ahead of schedule and hoping to have this ready-ish sooner than anticipated. The hunt still continues for a lead programmer but most of my time is devoted to the game and honestly I haven't spent that much time recently searching.

Fuck UPS - 3 Vindicator / Verrator Available

I avoided making this post for the last week, but as backlogged as i'm getting on emails I found it necessary to just get it over with.

As a few people go I just recently moved and had my PC shipped to the new address. Everything worked out fine, the overlapping over utilities and internet service to the new address so i was set to only be out of action for at most one day. But when my PC arrived the tower was in a shape I can only describe as "fucked". Opening it up I found that virtually everything not secured by more than two screws was broken off and laping in a free-sliding heap at the bottom. This included my graphics card, sound card, even the cpu fan and worst of all, all 3 hard drives.

So naturally I opened a case with UPS and still haven't gotten a useful response. In the meantime i took my hard drives to a local pc repair shop to see what they could recover. 2 out of my 3 redundant hard drives were totally shot and the third was salvageable but not bootable. I left it with them overnight to clone it onto a new drive but when I got that one home after replacing most of my shit at Fry's Electronics for a ton of money, the replacement hard drive literally burned out at 2:30am (smoke.. fizzle... dead)

So now I'm like $500 down and still not usable PC. With any luck they'll have it working again soon but that doesn't fill the hole made by having to replace virtually a whole computer's worth of guts bought just last year anyway.

Again, sorry for the bad news but as many people as I'm getting asking me every day what's up, I wanted them to know I wasn't just sitting on my hands. I'm sitting on a 5 year old laptop right now but hopefully they'll have my shit recovered in the next day or so.

The upside at least is that a ton of actual assets generation is almost done. Even if the code still needs work, fortunately we're still slightly ahead of the curve in terms of content. So much so that I was able to finish one who new race that wasn't originally even planned to be available, but a surprisingly large number of people emailed in and asked about it specifically so we'll be including that in one of our near future videos :)

Thanks for your support. To try and recoup the costs of all this mess, I've decided to enable up to 3 more sales of a Vindicator and/or Verrator available at the original price if anyone still wants them. I get emails all the time, so I think this might be a way of coming with enough scratch to prevent me from having to dip into the company ink to replace this shit. For anyone who is interested, yet a very few will be available in the next campaign but they will be drastically more expensive; In the neighborhood of $200-$300 so if you are interested, drop an email to my business address and i'll send back an invoice.

Thanks for the team spirit guys :)

-Ethan

 ethan@divergence-online.com