Progress Report #4

New Offices

It's been a while since the last progress report. That's because on top of working on content for Days of Defiance, we're currently in the process of moving our offices to a new city. This is exciting for a number of reasons, but one of them is that the additional space allows us to upgrade our mocap setup. That's going to improve our animation pipeline tremendously, not just for future games but for Days of Defiance as well.

Moving is going to take us a couple more weeks, though, so expect a few more gaps in the progress report schedule until we're done.

Steam Next Fest

In other news, we're getting ready for Steam Next Fest, which starts October 14th. That's also when we're going to release the Days of Defiance demo! That's right, starting next week, you can check out the game for yourself.

The demo will be limited to a small part of the game world and a small subset of all recruitable characters that are going to be available in the final release. Apart from that, you can explore the demo area freely, complete some quests, and fight some bad guys.

Content & Bug Fixes

Most of the dev time was spent on new quests and coordinating voice actors. About half of all the voiced characters are done, so get ready for some snark coming your way!

We're also busy fixing bugs in order to make the demo as stable as it can be. For the longest time, we've had two show stoppers on the Linux build that are gone now. They were minor annoyances, but just enough to make the game basically unplayable. If all goes well, we can get the demo out on Linux platforms, too.

And that's it for this time. See you next week for Steam Next Fest!