This thread came about very soon after I discovered Itch.io and that it could serve as an early deployment and download platform for Morpheus. I was not really ready to "release" in any real sense of the word other than myself being able to take what I had already working and get it working on the itch.io platform. The game was still very buggy and there were not large portions of the game you could play. When I did development I was always in a god mode of sorts-- able to teleport around and manipulate game state from the console.
Kind of sad that 322 days later I have not yet "released" or even entered any form of beta-- but in that time I have solved many many game play bugs (down to few known issues), implemented basic in-game menuing, implemented queued preloading of in-game assets, rewrote the 3D engine to be 2x as fast and use much less memory, cloud saves behind a google login, a sweet title screen, unit, engine and UI automated tests, and a desktop app and packaged installer. I also transitioned my build and test platform from a custom drone installation to gitlabs and kept my docker deployment systems up to date(ish). In addition, in working with the original Soap Bubble owners I am resurrecting the business entity and funding for the re-release. There's stuff I'm sure I missed but also more to come! My next update I hope to be a real beta release, with mobile platforms, EV certs and the financials ready to accept money on Soap Bubble Productions behalf.
Until then, I updated first post to reflect current progress and todos. If you want blow by blow updates, I recommend you follow me on twitter @dev_morpheus or look up Morpheus Game on facebook. You might even get rub shoulders with the original technical talent that produced Morpheus :-)
Fun fact, Morpheus was released nearly 20 years ago, but stopped working on PCs on 64bit hardware and stopped working on Macs after the deprecation of 68k Mac Classic support. But now you can go to Itch.io to download installers to play Morpheus on modern 64bit (and actually 64bit only) PC, Mac and Linux Desktop computers.