Dev Blog: 03.27.2024
It's been a pretty intense couple of weeks. The BIG news, of course, is that we launched the EA. It went very well, all things considered. Sales have been strong, and the reviews have been pretty positive (THANKS!)
That being said, there were a couple of key bugs that were f-ing miserable to hunt down. While that was happening, we're frantically sorting out what the next steps for the game are. I'm writing, the artists are art-ing, and we're also discussing what the future looks like for our Patreon and other social outreach things - how can we improve them?
To be honest, it's just a lot all at once, and none of us have been able to focus down in the way we'd like. But that's game dev. It's starting to settle down a bit now, and we're hoping that over the next couple of months we can get Sinners to a more 'relaxed, predictable place' of development, like Paradise 2 is now.
But a LOT of that depends on me getting a lot further ahead with the writing than I am now... Which I am struggling with.
Buck is spending the week working primarily on the card game. One of the things we kinda realized on launch was that some asshole (me) added a bunch of cards into the dungeon and training activity rewards that had not really been tested yet... and a bunch of them are broken, and even more of them are unbalanced. We're going through and trying to rebalance/fix those now. The upside is... our game DID get a bunch of new cards. So... there's that.
Now, back to writing. - Chase
Oh and we're also making community items this week (backgrounds, badges, trading cards). Should be out soon!
That being said, there were a couple of key bugs that were f-ing miserable to hunt down. While that was happening, we're frantically sorting out what the next steps for the game are. I'm writing, the artists are art-ing, and we're also discussing what the future looks like for our Patreon and other social outreach things - how can we improve them?
To be honest, it's just a lot all at once, and none of us have been able to focus down in the way we'd like. But that's game dev. It's starting to settle down a bit now, and we're hoping that over the next couple of months we can get Sinners to a more 'relaxed, predictable place' of development, like Paradise 2 is now.
But a LOT of that depends on me getting a lot further ahead with the writing than I am now... Which I am struggling with.
Buck is spending the week working primarily on the card game. One of the things we kinda realized on launch was that some asshole (me) added a bunch of cards into the dungeon and training activity rewards that had not really been tested yet... and a bunch of them are broken, and even more of them are unbalanced. We're going through and trying to rebalance/fix those now. The upside is... our game DID get a bunch of new cards. So... there's that.
Now, back to writing. - Chase
Oh and we're also making community items this week (backgrounds, badges, trading cards). Should be out soon!