Posted March 21, 2023 by Stone Fox Studios
"Look Jaye, those Stone Fox guys dropped the ball again..."
Hey all, just checking back in with a quick update.
We're still stitching "all the things" together for Chapter 7, and the truth is Kent still has a couple of scenes left to pose. Not super small ones either.
The first animation work has come off the presses, and is looking really solid, and we don't anticipate animation delivery being our last box to check.
Unfortunately, we did hit a bit of a speed bump due in part to a family emergency on Kent's side. Everything's alright, and it's behind us now, but it did slow us down more than we would have liked.
This will, sadly, push our release out a few more weeks.
I know this isn't welcome news, and I can only offer that our slip will be weeks rather than months. Sometimes, in spite of our best efforts, we fall short of the goals we set for ourselves.
In any case, the silver lining is that this chapter has quite a bit going on with bad endings, chickens coming home to roost, and subplots starting to wrap up.
I expect we'll have the entire script playable front-to-back by the end of this coming weekend, and at that point will just be backfilling art, tweaking audio, and path testing.
Just as a refresher, we're looking at:
Thank you for bearing with us. We hate announcing delays as much as you hate reading about them. As always, we'd rather take the goodwill hit here than by releasing something that's not quite ready for prime time because we rushed.
Our next update should be announcing beta testing has begun.
Once we release to beta, we'll begin building our credits movie, and always we'll give patrons a chance to opt out.
Best,
Kentyrr and Stoya