Due to lack of time now, the sourceforge update will likely be done Monday

Download instructions set

Installer now being pushed as we speak

No music version uploaded

Creating actual release

First release since development has ended... for now semi-beta -- It will be deemed "stable" if no bugs are reported prior to March

Icon change

That should do it

????

Well, let's get this formatilty on the road then... The sooner it's done, the better, eh?

Officially I can say the development stage is now over... I only need one final test of the last dungeon, and then this game will be officially finished... Of course, I will update the game later if bugs are reported, and later I will try to convert NALA to C++....

So let's get to this so I can wave the checker flag

Beta Project

Beta milestone

And that finishes the Walkthrough.... Its existence will only be officially announced later though.... It's not good to show your hand too early. You *WILL* be able to see the walkthrough on GitHub already though.

Character overview

That and a few finishing touches

Now a few final tests in which I complete my final test game.... This is rather a formality than serious work, but hey, who knows what will pop up during that crap, eh?

Fix confirmed

Right! Time to put this on the test!

I will have to test this all later, as my favorite show will now begin

Gedrio Fulla

I think I fixed... a PART of the problem......

I think tackled #279, but I need to test this to make sure!

I reckon I need to rest first.... The trip to everything got some energy out of me... I will resume the work after that... One bug and one sidequest away from the checker flag, so this is gonna be good... I think

I had to re-measure my eyes, and that took some time.... sorry

I only need to cover the Death Caves now, and I got it all set......

And that covers all the sealed bosses

Sealed Boss: H.R.M. King Slime

Sealed Boss: Orc Overlord

Sealed Boss: Ghoul King

Sealed Boss: GigaLich

Sealed Boss: Kabi

Sealed Boss: Shadow Rogue

Sealed Boss: Hobgoblin

Sealed Boss: Mountain Emperor

Underworld

Red Temple

Mörker Forest

Dupe Boxtext issue in Order fight?

Digitopia

Frundarmon's mansion

The script will only be used for stable releases, though!

A script has been set up... And this script SHOULD install .NET 4.8 and DirectX if it hasn't already been installed... However since both are already present on my computer, this is impossible for me to check

ROFLMAO

Well I did reset my entire computer and it looks like things are working again....

And I guess rsync can better be removed from my system ASAP

Well at least SCP appears to work

even the windows closedown feature is not working, so I guess a hardcore reset is in order!

Everything lags.... Not sure if this is the fault of rsync, but I think it is.... So an entire restart might be in order ......

Let's try this with SCP then

And it looks like sourceforge didn't receive the file as a result, although a small dely should be taken to mind

What's this?

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The paging file is too small for this operation to complete. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800705AF)
   at shim.ShimProgram.Main(String[] args)

I am currently experimenting with the uploads here..... The game is too big for regular upload by site (only just), so I am experimenting with rsync now.... It looks like it does the job.... Or at least I think so... Since this is a large upload this will take time after all....

Updated (this was a vital void, so I really had to take care of this)

As far as I can judge now it looks like #278 has succesfully been voided

One final check to test the entire event as awhole

As far as I can check everything should work now

Take VII ( #278 )

One last issue? ( #278 )

Take VI ( #278 )

Disappeared function ( #278 )

Take V ( #278 )

..............

Take IV ( #278 )

Unclosed scope ( #278 )

Take III ( #278 )

Missing lib call in map script ( #278 )

Take II ( #278 )

Traveler's level issues

Take I ( #278 )

Was apparently not needed, but I aliased the "niets.saskia" script in order to make sure the game doesn't crash over this (voiding another issue as well)... This too is of course to voide #278

Alternate mapscript needed to void #278

Map alterations needed for voiding #278

I set up an alias in order to make things easy on the scenario while voiding ( #278 )

The plan will also be to make the sourceforge release by then, and I hope I can start the preparations for that today

The Game Jolt release is now scheduled for Jan 31st.... By that time it is also possible the first release that is actually deemed "stable" may be released on itch, and Game Jolt will likely soon follow....

The Abyss

Sugarland

Hall of Music

Voided an issue that is clearly NOT caused by me!

I've decided to do this elseway. If Game Jolt persists on fucking this up, at least this way I hope the game won't crash, but a notice will be made, and... that's all....

It looks like it works now... I fthis was bad data or an issue in Game Jolt.... I guess I'll never know... But it works now, and out of security reasons I will update the current build on itcho.io

I *hope* it works now

Hopefully

Giant rebuild

Since these security errors only affect the system when trying to contact Game Jolt, I can (if worst comes to worst) remove Game Jolt from the game (or dummy it, that is)... Which was for the long term the plan anyway, but the timing is very rotten!

Just to make sure everything is clean I'll remove the entire release (or rather, I'll use rar to back it up), and re-build it so I can be 100% sure everything here is fresh....

Now it looks like there are a lot of connections issues on Game Jolt's side, so perhaps it's only that... I hope so at least....

And JUST AFTER ANNOUNCING THIS A "SECURITY ERROR" pops up for no reason at all

Science Facility

I do need to neg once more as a result, though

#281 (I hope?)

Mad House

I think I fixed that, however since savegames past the point that Foxey should enter are beyond repair I cannot check this unless I start the entire game anew, and I hope you don't mind me not opting for that path, sorry

#280

Botanica

The Lost Ark

I will also slow down a bit.... There is no more hurry... The beta is done, and that was my first concern.....

I've deactivated the auto-update... During the alpha this was handy, but now that the game is officially in the beta (and thus semi-stable, or at least, that's what it should be), that crapload of updates is no longer needed.

The reason I didn't want to do this in the previous run is simply because I didn't want my levels and powerups to influence the walkthrough levels and difficulty.... All that stuff was optional after all, and as a goldren rule (which also applies here) characters always get overpowered when you do all the optional stuff.... When you need to check a full balance, that's not the best way to go

Today I will be playing the New Game+, and cover the sidequests and New Game+ Only missions that I come across.... In this run I will also cover the Game Jolt Exclusive dungeons

Once the walkthrough is complete the checker flag will be waved.... We're really close now ;)

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The Grand Finale

Lord Dzgjymza's keep

The City of Umerington

Forest

Wastelands

Mermaid Harbor & Dyrt Beach

Zondra's Grave

Black Prison

Frendor Bushes

Dark Storage - Main section

Dark Storage - Rondomo section

Dark Storage - Kirana section

A doorway back in the (halfway) boss room in Kirana's section didn't work at all

Dark Storage - Jeracko section

Dark Storage - Aldarus section

Dark Storage - General Overview

Jennifer's story

And a bit of "link-up" talk... I guess that was pretty vague, but I think you got... or at least, I hope so!

Frundarmon's mansion

Purple Forest

The Phelynx city of Felixium

That covers it all for Team Eric, so over to team Rebecca

Malabia's Temple

Malabia's Caves

The Lost City of Fruskbrando

Scharum

Rayal Palace

Meeting Aziëlla, daugther of the house of Gandron

The Marshes

The City of Independence (first visit)

Independence Bushes

Forgot to make some aliases that could crash the game if you played the True Abyss in the Italian language... This has been fixed (and it won't matter that the Italian dialogue will be corrected later, the builder will all pick that up).

Italan translation complete... at least the automated version that is... and I should have done it this way from the start, actually.... Would have saved me tons of (needless) work

Gagolton empty

The mines of Airom

Gagolton

I found a better way to do the Italian translation.... It will soon be "back" and some things even better worked out.... YAY, I'm awesome (well, kind of).

Yasathar's Temple

This looks hopeful.... I will get to this later.....

I've temporarily disabled the Italian language in the start settings, and I've copied the English language files as if they were Italian... This will at least prevent some issues for the short term

And as my backup program has failed me many times (out of memory for some odd unexplainable reason), I cannot recover the translation I already had, but maybe it's better this way, the new way I got in mind will (I hope) handle accent marks a lot better (I hope)

I will think of a quicker way to get the Italian translation done, however, I need a bit of time to properly prepare for that as I do need a bit of coding work

BIG DISASTER.... And the Italian translation went lost in the process

Azquakunda Prison

Grass Plains

Naked Rocks - jennifer's house

Naked Rocks - Caves

Naked Rocks - Outside

The Rondomo Encounter

Black Dragon's Lair

The Sheck-Lock encounter

Green Dragon's Cave

White Dragon's Lair

Imperial Castle

Iskarderiu Forest

And that took some effort due to some balancing issues

Red Dragon's Lair

The Red Dragon REALLY made me have it.... So a little nerf was in order

Dragon Crack Forest

Part of the scenario was missing in Dutch

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Zoraman Prison

Weniaria's Temple

Mysterious Crypt

Queen Shanda's dungeon

Doubline

Xenor Bushes - North

Ah yeah, that was a global config thing... That should be taken care of now

Syslog was still created

That was only saving as PNG but still

Another picture of Dernor not in order

Exams Ruins

But I'm running my build script to make sure

I think I fixed the 'Alias' issue

I hope this didn't cause any damage to the game, but we'll have to see, I'm afraid

SWAPKILL data was gone

Alias issue Dernor

My building scripts will now also update on itch.io

Xenor Bushes - West

Accent grave on the o for basic BoxText Font

On Itch.io the first public alphas will be released... Also note, that on Game Jolt this will only follow once the alphas are stable.... Butler has always been far superior over gjpush, and as such updates can happen faster anyway. Since Butler also supports binary diffing, it's only the first that'll take time here

As this was a very extremely critical issue, I'll also update the GJ Alpha

And onto the next round

Well, it goes without saying I fixed that now

I forgot the MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION IN THIS FIX! Yes, I know I'm a moron!

And let's resume the action, shall we?

Old syslog - I also need to check if this is no longer automatically being done, however that can also be a project or config setting so,that comes later

And that makes it a good thing I didn't yet release the beta

#277

In the meantime I will also make updates to the Italian "translation" but I will not keep on making notes about that!

Covered: Xenor Bushes

Introduction

THAT should do it....

One more uploade

Debug console was still accessible... shouldn't be!

I will now start a new game in the casual mode, however I will turn off the development mode... I will also start the game in the Italian mode... Not that I understand Italtian, but I know teh story through and through by now, so this allows me to test things out in this version... I will also write the walkthrough during this process

All done