So first of all no updated build. This does mean that the current build still has those typos connected to the main character’s kids.
Secondly if and when you find a bug/typo if you can please note what character type you chose and what era the character is from there’s a lot of customizing the text to adjust to the main character’s role and era of origin.
I think I’m close to a place where I can update things, but because I’ve been messing around with a few different areas there’s a fair amount of testing to be done to make sure I haven’t broken anything in the process.
Current work going on:
- Finishing introducing the characters. Almost done with the last section where your character meets one of the Labrador crew working at a newsletter called the ‘Electric Shepherd’, I’m probably going to let the player choose newsletters as I keep coming up with good names for them, but that will require a little extra work to keep it from being a purely cosmetic choice.
- The simulations. Always the simulations.
- Sequences hanging out with the crew aboard the Labrador.
I doubt I’ll be ready to update for at least a couple of weeks. With my other WIP featuring tennis it’s safe to assume I won’t be doing much A&I work during Wimbledon. So I’ll try to be back with an update in the middle of July, but late July/August is more likely.
And a dispatch from the Beagle… or rather the Labrador. This is from a sequence hanging out with Mamadou.
Dispatch from the Labrador
Everybody had developed their own routines. Mercedes had the briefings that she didn’t really need because she was a captain, not the captain. Abe poked at things, mostly metaphorically and continued to read through that welcome pamphlet. Penelope had her games with Hamid. Mamadou had his crosswords and a secondary goal, he intended to know the Labraor just as well as any of the engineers.
Which meant that if you wanted to hang out with Mamadou it typically took the form of tours of engineering. They could be enjoyable and when engaging with the astoundingly boring Mamadou actually became more humorous and self deprecating, an endless font of weird stories from the Pacifican bureaucracy. After offering one of those stories about Pacifican bureaucratic silliness Mamadou paused.
“Huh, I need to start rationing some of these stories. Don’t want to run out of things to talk about in the first ten years of a potentially billion year existence.”
“Hopefully there will be new stories.”
“You realize that all of our stories from this life will start off like bad jokes. So I was playing board games with an old captain, former chief, the President of the Isthmian States, and a noted nanotech specialist…”
“Strictly speaking I think a religious figure in some measure is required for those jokes.”
“Thank goodness we have Penelope around then.” Mamadou noted, referencing the still surprising discovery that Penelope Zaboul had been an ordained minister of the Order of the Holy Infinitum.
As ever, thanks for reading. Be back in July/August.