[This is going to be a LONG week] - Weekly Update #18

Sorry for the delay - I had a busy day since this is a busy week in Finland (I'll get to more on that below)! Also, there is a crap-ton I wrote, and I had to make sure that I got this done in a timely-manner, so I didn't type EVERYTHING.

So, I finally decided against my precious better judgement to allow EVERYONE to play the game. Now, while this is a good thing for multiple reasons, it also carries it's negatives, and I feel compelled to list those for you, so you all know what I now get to deal with from this decision:

Positives:

1. Publicity! People get to know about this game, tell their friends, and gather a following so people can enjoy this game in the future when there is more content (similar to when Corruption of Champions started out!)
2. Feedback! I get the input from the entire community of 3 websites (at least) about ideas, submissions, suggestions, bug-finds, thinks that are liked/disliked, so-on and so-forth! This will help improve everything about the game, and make you, the player, feel invested and want to play more!
3. Free(dom)! I don't have to limit you all from playing - you can all play to your heart's content, until you get bored of testing a particular thing BESIDES the previously planned idea of just letting you play the first 'edition' of each Phase and allowing access to a select few.

Negatives:

1. Publicity! Alteratio will come across as an incomplete game to those who don't know anything about it, they will not play again, and tell anyone else who shows interest in Alteratio to back away from 'that crappy, incomplete game'.
2. Pre-determined impressions! Some people think that if something is in a game, it WILL NOT CHANGE. And because it will not change, or lacks something that appeals to them, they quit and never return, also informing everyone to avoid Alteratio. [Alteratio is a game made by both me AND you, so YOU have the power to change it! Just say the words :)]
3. Haters! People will come along to troll me or the game simply because they don't like me and Alteratio - it'll demotivate me and will slow the progress of the game sometimes, if it gets bad enough. I have 3 communities, so it can easily happen.

So, I felt that the benefits out-weighed the negatives, so we'll see how it goes.

For more information  especially pertaining to the state of the game and it's direction, please continue to read-on!

And so it begins!

Public release! Woooooo!

Thank you all for waiting patiently - everything is up and running as far as I know!

We'll see how long it takes for things to catch on fire ;)



On a side note - it's 5 A.M. and I don't quite feel up to writing my Weekly Update right now, so I'll do it when I wake up!

Please be patient!

I don't want people to begin ranting and raving after I posted on 2 more websites (and the the avid reader on the third) about not being able to play the game! (Yes, for those who don't know, I threw up my arms and said that a community game should be played by the community!)


I am in the process of updating what I have left for the public to see, and posting it up along with my weekly update of the blog. It (Alteratio - the game) should be up here in the next few hours (what little there is!).


Thank you all for the views, and I hope you don't mind waiting just a BIT longer :)

[Alchemists, Templars, and Bards Oh My!] - Weekly Update #17

Hello! Welcome to weekly update #17 (you can read that as hash-tag 17 for you twitter peoplez).

This week's theme:

Other things I thought about & Character Classes!

So, before I dive headfirst into this, I do need to mention a few things -

I have a HORRIFIC memory! I try my best to write down my thoughts, especially about Alteratio, but even I (Oh yes, I'm afraid I'm human!) sometimes don't write things down - Why do I bring this up? Because this is one of the few things that I didn't write down.

Another thing: I don't 'rehearse' my blog posts on here - I write what I think and feel, and what I want to get across to you all. I do not look over everything I have written 15 times and then make a post - I just glance for grammatical errors and hit post. I don't like censoring information to you all, and I want to come across as a fellow human being who has a large aspiration to play Games of all sorts as well as a complete newb game-maker who dreams big and does sub-par work.

I hope that what I wrote above to you indicates that I don't just make this game for 'showz' or to float my own boat - I'm just a person trying to do something I want to do, failure or not! ("Failure is not an option!" - Old High School Slogan)

Now that that is out of the way, about my character creation....

I'm going to make you click a button first, so, after you click it, feel free to read all about it! I'm evil.

[I said I'd never stop working on this!] - Weekly Update 13 to 16.7

I'm afraid my absence was out of my hands this time as the inconvenience gods have once again stricken at the aligning of the failure - due to my most recent assurances, I've managed to gather some wards to fend them off, at least for the time being!

I don't know how to apologize, but I'll lay out some things I've been thinking about for the long term for Alteratio.

So, the story thus far...


Right after Weekly Update #12 (16th of March) I was beginning to fill in the RP details of the Character Creation. I had managed to get a good portion of it (10 Classess, 8 Races) when my computer started going bonkers. So, to prevent a disaster like last time, I went to immediately save what I had to my dropbox - in the process of saving, the entire computer crashes.

No big deal, I thought, until I saw smoke coming from my computer tower... apparently my power caught aflame and in the process it fried my mother-board and processor. Fun times! $300+ of repairs that need to be done.

I access the dropbox on my phone (yayz) and found that the file was corrupted... I'm upset, but still no big deal since I had also saved it to my USB (just an earlier version, before I fixed the reset button).

Ooh, and to top it off? WHILE I'M TYPING this to the blog to keep you guys updated, I run out of Data on my phone AND the internet cut out for a long time (yes, god these were a shitty 2 weeks).

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