Unsung Story - February Update

In the latest update for Unsung Story, you can read that the game will not be released this year, a vertical slice, mission 5 notes and other stuff.

First, I want to apologize about the lack of backer interaction and forums. I have an unfinished task sitting on my to-do list to get everyone migrated to GamersFirst accounts so they can access the new Unsung Story forums. Things have been super busy, but I plan on getting this finished in February.

Second, here is an update on various parts of the game:

• We have updated the story board to lock in the first 50% of the game.
• We have updated the mission layouts / whiteboxes for the first 25% of the game.
• We are about 15% done building out the character art, heads, hair, and outfits.
• We are working back through all the abilities (lots of design tweaks based on game testing). Right now I think we have about 20% of the abilities completely done again.
• Lots and lots of finalized engineering systems related to movement, combat, and AI.

Lastly, the bad news. 

After having spent the last couple months with the Square Grid and going through production timelines, it is clear we aren't going to have a finished game by the end of this year. 

I absolutely hate having to move things back.

The main problem is the mission art production time. We have 50 missions, and we're using mostly unique assets in each one. Early in the project, we made the design decision not to build some basic tile sets and just re-use those over and over. It takes a minimum of 1 month to fully complete the art for each mission. We are in the process of ramping up about 4 teams to work concurrently. Using those estimates, we have at least 13 more months of production which doesn't include time for cutscene environments, polish, submission, manufacturing and shipping. I will be spending some time to see how well we hold to our time estimates, and then I'll come back with a new date. 

Please know that I want to ship this game as soon as possible. You guys have waited far too long already.