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The Bay 12 Games Report, May 9th 2024

We've got the adventure mode beta up on Steam, and that'll make it's way over to a full Premium/Classic when it's ready.  There are several menus left to do, and we're also going to add the new chosen/hero stuff etc.  It shouldn't take forever but the deity/demigod/dungeon bits will take some percolating.  Just cleaned up the barter menu yesterday and will probably clean up shops a bit next.  Should have more information on art and music soon as we reconvene after my late April/early May break.

Everything is still going well over in sales land.  Down to 8k copies in February, up to 16k in March, returning to 13k in April.  The adventure beta didn't move things much, but it was pretty low key, which is just as well since there are menus left to add.

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Release notes for 50.12 (March 6, 2024):

New stuff
   (*) Ability to sort the lists from the creature/task menus
   (*) Kitchen interface sorting and searching
   (*) Work detail sorting and searching
   (*) Can edit and restore default work details
   (*) Saves can be sorted by world and folder on the title screen
   (*) Keyboard support for many unit lists
   (*) Ability to designate burrows over multiple Z levels

Major bug fixes
   (*) Fixed a few crashes relating to pregnancy
   (*) Fixed save corruption related to bad job ids
   (*) Fixed crash related to language mods
   (*) Goblins should have trolls again, and some additional friends (new worlds only)
   (*) Vampires in forts should hide properly

Graphics additions/changes
   (*) Additional statue graphics
   (*) Fixed some classic building interface lights

Other bug fixes/tweaks
   (*) Squad assignment now lists already-assigned units last
   (*) Fixed error in calculation of bridge support
   (*) Fixed issue in how environment-appropriate work animals are selected for visiting fortress
   (*) Fixed missing autopause tooltip
   (*) Additional miscellaneous optimizations
   (*) Fixed minor issue with forest variant display
   (*) Fixed clipping issue on unit sheets
   (*) Fixed minor issue with cage contents display
   (*) Fixed pet list display on unit sheet rarely skipping a pet
   (*) Llamas are pack animals now

The Bay 12 Games Report, January 2nd 2024


Mission Status

  What's to say about the year gone past?  That's one that I'll remember.  The year my other brother died.  There is nothing really good to say about this year...  except that we got paid.  It really does to take a lot off your mind.  It opens up a lot of opportunities, but can it really bring back someone who died so young?  There are a lot of things we are going to be able to do now.  We can travel the world on our own dime.  How much does it really matter when you lose someone who mattered so much?  I'll tell you.

You are the only ones holding us together.  Without you we would still be working thankless jobs that were far from rewarding.  We are getting older.  Friends and family passing away is something we'll have to get used to.  This was a lot though.  I have to ask if my wife will ever be happy again.  Do I think any amount of money will fix that?  With your help, I sure will try.

"Congratulations to the generous!" -- ThreeToe


Fun with Numbers

  Yeesh, what a year.  Hopefully the next one will be more relaxed and see us finish out Adventure mode and then get into new stuff for everybody.  I guess relaxed might not be possible, since we have ourselves another deadline ha ha.  But it'll be good to get through the basic Adventure mode update.

With the Winter sale, we hit 27k copies sold in December.  As expected, a pretty good chunk!

The Bay 12 Games Report, November 1st 2023


Mission Status

  We were off to a bumpy start last month, but now things look like we might actually have a chance to launch into some smooth sailing.  That said: I would like to present two giant middle fingers to the Whims of Fate who have completely messed up our lives in the last few months, just when everything was going so well.  There is no bright side to this nonsense.  Your patience is deeply appreciated.

"Congratulations to the generous!" -- ThreeToe


Fun with Numbers

  Yeah, grandma passed away at the age of 100.  For the DF community, she was the judge of our crayon art rewards - if you got one over the years and didn't make a specific request, it's quite likely she decided that your drawing was meant for you.  So it has been kind of unrelenting, but we're just going to try to reboot in November with some heavy interface sections of Adventure Mode, and we should be able to show some stuff next week as well.

11k copies in October...  there's a large bump a good while after the release and I'm not even sure why!  Looks like we're going to oscillate pretty wildly, which we're used to of course ha ha.

The Bay 12 Games Report, October 2nd 2023


Mission Status

  The Adventure begins in earnest.  The interface is beginning to coalesce.  The travel map is under construction.  Soon your life will be complete as your world is connected, fortress to fortress, for all time.

"Congratulations to the generous!" -- ThreeToe


Fun with Numbers

  Yeah, it's fun to have things springing back to life again.  Site maps, portraits, the main interface layout.  There are several menus/etc. to do - we should be posting a roadmap soon to sort of remind everybody of what updating the entirety of adventure mode entails.  New patch shortly as well for the linux log crash and new tutorial troubles, among other things.

Down to ~6000 sales in September.  Seems pretty normal, since we didn't have any particular event going on for once, and it still represents the same sort of average background number of 200 per day we've been experiencing.  We'll be lucky enough if that continues.

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Release notes for 50.10 (September 19, 2023):

Linux version is up!

New stuff
   (*) Can view all alerts, including old ones that have been dismissed
   (*) Can view combat reports from creature sheets
   (*) Can pause combat reports whenever new events are added
   (*) Added crash logging

Major bug fixes
   (*) Fixed crash from removing zone with assigned unit
   (*) Fixed multithreading crash related to announcements
   (*) Fixed a potential crash issue with monarch arrival and made them provide more wagons properly
   (*) Fixed potential crash related to certain traveling creatures
   (*) Ammo assignments are updated properly when changing uniforms
   (*) Removed ownership of food items whenever they are dropped (stops rotten food hoarding in rooms)

Graphics additions/changes
   (*) New stone ramp graphics

Other bug fixes/tweaks
   (*) Made creatures more able to get out of trees
   (*) Sped up mid-level map retrieval (helps slowdowns on large world embarks)
   (*) Optimized relationship lookup for socializing dwarves
   (*) Fixed out of bounds issue with wheelbarrows
   (*) Stopped music mods from throwing error when making a new world
   (*) Fixed crash when there's an invalid language (mods)
   (*) Made broker leave depot when last wagon leaves instead of first

The Bay 12 Games Report, July 1st 2023


Mission Status

  Faster.  Stronger.  Better - and ready to begin a great adventure!  A new world awaits under a cloud of ASCII nonsense and bad UI.  What's going on down there?  We are there looking back at you, hard at work shaping a meta-narrative that brings shape to an otherwise meaningless romp through an amazing yet pointless world.  This all changes the minute the shroud is pulled away.  Prepare yourselves.

"Congratulations to the generous!" -- ThreeToe


Fun with Numbers

  SDL2 is up now, and another big round of applause for Putnam!  Generally, there are so many different tracks being worked on ha ha ha - adventure mode, new audio, more art, Linux, bug fixes, announcements, UI uniformization that should help with classic as well as new graphical screens, just a pile.  It's kind of hard to say which tracks will move forward and how much this month.  Probably best not to try and guess!  But we're all plugging away at it and I'll try to keep everybody posted more than I have been.

Sales in the same range (12K this month), so everything's fine there.

The Bay 12 Games Report, June 8th 2023


Mission Status

  Have you ever held your emotions so deep down until you thought you would explode?  The rush...  the release is a feeling so great you have to express it in song.  We sing a song of multiple threads...  multiple branches coming together to make something greater...  something faster.  You will see soon what two programmers can do.  Some might fawn over the new menus.  Some may cruise through the new optimization.  All will say it was worth the wait.

"Congratulations to the generous!" -- ThreeToe


Fun with Numbers

  We were hoping to get the SDL2 stuff over on the main branch right before we left for Game Access 2023 at the end of May, but didn't get it posted, so we should be doing that pretty soon.  This will be good.  The multithreading requires a bit more testing, so it's off by default, but it will be available even on the main branch through the settings!  This speeds up the game quite a lot - Putnam has done an excellent job modernizing the code.

I have an adventurer running around.  We're just getting started on the menus/audio/etc. there.  This should be very exciting, though we also expect it to take some time before it can be released.  Adventure mode has many many options and menus ha ha.  And the report/ammo/etc. improvements are still coming down the line.

Sales up to 14k, from the Kitfox sale bump, and the daily ranges are around 200-300.  Everything still behaving sensibly!  We'll see how patching this month alters things, but we don't expect any big fluctuations until adventure mode is finally together.  This daily rate of sales still covers everybody that's now working on the project (lots of people!) and other B12 expenses, which is good, and we'd still be okay even if it slumps a bit more.