LegacyWorlds Beta 6

Hey,

The Legacy Worlds team wanted to wish all of you a happy new year 2009.

Also, we’re still working. While LWB6 might look more and more like vaporware to many of you, the truth is we are trying to write something really different, and really big. Besides, it’s not like any of us can spend his or her full time working on it … To quote from 3D Realms, it’ll be done … when it’s done.

The regular posts about the game will be back shortly (starting next Monday).

In the meantime, enjoy New Year’s Eve!

TSeeker

Hello guys,

It’s been a while since we last updated this blog. Both Ju and I have been busy with other endeavours (work-related stuff, mostly) so we haven’t been able to work on Legacy Worlds as much as we’d have wanted to. Add this to the fact that the latest additions to the development wiki are mostly formulas, which are not something we’d want to publish.

But here we are. In the coming weeks, we are going to publish a few posts about the geography of the Beta 6 universe - mostly about the organisation of systems - and I will try to continue on the “Writing formulas” series. Speaking of that, my current “todo list” contains, well, mostly formulas that need to be written - distance computations (which is very boring, but almost finished), trading system, mining, corruption, influence and propaganda, happiness, population growth and migration… I am not looking forward to working on most of it, to be honest… but it has to be done.

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The “Beta” qualifier which has always been attached to LegacyWorlds implies the game is a work in progress which we aren’t satisfied enough with to consider it a final version.

The “New and Improved Features” forum has been an endless source of suggestions for future releases.

As those of you who go on irc.legacyworlds.com on a regular basis already know, we have started working on Beta 6 in a more organised way about two months ago. For now we are in a design stage (which should still last for quite some time).

What is somewhat frustrating for us is keeping everything that we plan for ourselves. Once again, the IRC regular visitors may have heard some words on the design plans and may have had some spoilers.

TSeeker and I both think the sharing of what we do has always been our first interest and is in my opinion the strength of the LegacyWorlds community. Sharing development progress shouldn’t be limited to IRC.

As a consequence, we chose to create this blog dedicated to Beta 6 progress updates. The only persons entitled to create topics there will be persons involved in the development of Beta 6. However, comments (answers) will be open to everyone.

As for the form of the progress updates, well: quotes from the development wiki, thoughts, perhaps single concepts for your imagination and curiosity to explore…

Hoping you’ll enjoy that.

Ju