Close to the top

So,

feature creep these last two months. Or depending on how you see it putting important systems in place and removing a lot of bugs.

Today I feel as if I’m resting on a ledge close to the top.

This latest climb lasted for a few months and we have conquered hazards and obstacles such as movement lag, positioning bugs, rectangular deeds and more anti-griefing code, mobile payments, mission code that will be used for both a new tutorial and other ingame events. A number of bugs has also been fixed to the extent that we’re actually running out of notable ones.

Most of these changes are silent preparations for the future and does little to affect current gameplay much.

This is the last week before I go on summer vacation. I will avoid doing anything game-damaging this week. I will rest on this ledge, and try to get some minor lacking features in. I’m going to start by looking at the new fence types, a couple of submerged monsters, and putting unused court titles to use. Hopefully I’ll have time for some more nifties as well.

When the first version of the new tutorial is in place, I’ll get to work on a rainy day and open up freedom for non-premiums.

I’m starting to plan a Wurm meeting here in Motala some time in August. I’ll post dates here and in the forums about the progress of that.

The first week after the vacation I’ll be in Cologne on Game developers conference. If you’re there’ drop me an email and we can say hello!

After that my first priority will be to get the Epic server in place. It will take a few weeks so a careful estimate is that we’ll see it arrive in the end of September. That will be the last climbing phase, and once there I will consider Wurm to be at 1.0!

PS. Check out the mobile payment options in the web shop unless you have already! Note that most countries are available in only one or two of the available products. DS.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 9:33 am and is filed under oddments.

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