Artist's commentary
Kit9 Studio - Progress Report
Next Episode
From the work completed so far, this episode will be the longest yet. Even in its unfinished state, it is roughly the length of both previous episodes combined.
Once finished, this episode will be released as a major content update, and work on the final episode will begin.
It is still too soon to give any release dates.
Translation Tool Plans
The next major technical task ahead will be an overhaul to the translation tool. It needs some additional features to make it ready for the next episode. When this work completes, more details about the new tool and how to use it will be provided in a future progress report.
Audio Issues
The stress testing for an audio issue fix earlier this month had unfortunately failed. While the new code was stable, and working well, after many hours the game will silently crash with no logging. It is also a very difficult thing to reproduce, and currently remains unclear if its actually related to the threading used in the new audio code, or if this is a deeper and unrelated issue.
To be on the safe side this fix is being benched until the crash can be further isolated. Depending on which versions exhibit the crash, it could take days or weeks of stress testing to narrow it down for further debugging.
Since this isn't game breaking issue, the next attempt to fix it will be made sometime after the coming episode is released.
Minor Patch
A recent hot-fix for the Steam initialization issues was just released as a patch. It appears to be resolving the issue for many of those affected by startup issues when first launching the game. Thanks to all of those who were able to test it and provide feedback.
Something Extra
Also sent along for this month's content updates was the following:
"This month the author bestows upon thee chaos and mayhem."