It’s a bit odd that I’m posting news about a newsletter… oh well, this is just to let our subscribers know the latest edition of the Shining Online newsletter will be released on Monday, hopefully with none of the annoying glitches that have plagued us in the past :P
For all those people pestering us about the Demo 4 release, stop it! We’re both still working out little cotton socks off to get the demo finished as soon as we can, and as I said in the interview [in the articles section, if you’ve not already read it :P] I think a December release is certainly a realistic expectation, bordering on sensible :P
Ty and myself interviewed Devlyn yesterday, so we hope to have that uploaded for your delight in the very near future, and we also have a whole load of interviews planned :)
That’s about all my news I think, keep the SO faith!
PS Congratulations to Dev for managing quite some updates recently :P
Wow, haven’t been keeping up to date, have I? Sometimes I get a little suprised by just how long SO has been dragging itself along. Anyway, here’s some updates!
- Finished Skies Of Arcade. It’s really quite good, so buy it for your DC (and the GameCube version too!)
- Sliced more guff out of the source code, speeding the game up a tad. Plus it made me feel better. You learn a lot of coding tricks in a year, and the source is beginning to how it’s age.
- Got a nice installer working, which should prevent people from getting errors with the new demo. I hope.
- Added some new functionality to the website (not online yet though =P ), as well as some integration with the game. I’m quite proud of that bit.
- Wrote 26 pages of design doc. Not a lot really, but I’m not very good at writing lots of guff.
- Added some of the cameo sprites, but I’m still waiting for more (*hint hint!*)
- Did lots of university work =\
- Started the mammoth task of finishing the level editor, and adding “Super Mega Event Editor”
- Released a demo of Sonic Groove (Here)
- Thought about canning SO. Quite liked the idea, too!
- Canned SO (see news)
- Realised it was a bad joke.
- Newts wrote more music.
- And more music.
- Got hassled to release the next demo. When it’s ready, you fiends!
I should really get back to work now. Hope you enjoyed this rather poor update!
(No, the game hasn’t really been canned. We’re still working hard, and the demo is still on schedule for a “whenever it’s ready” release.)
