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Soul Update - A story in evos of time
9 years ago

Quick Update


Hi ^_^ time for a quick update.

Last week I spent it planning the future of my game and I want to share it with you so you can have a more clear idea of what to expect from EVO.

Timeline

I have done an estimate for a tentative date of release for the official demo which is: January 2nd 2017

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Maybe this date sounds very far away and a lot of time for a demo but this is a date for the worst case scenario, I beleive I can finish the demo in 2016. Also there are other factors that may change this tentative deadline, maybe I can find people who want to help me in the project and the project will go faster, or maybe I can find some financial support to hire people to work in the game or simply It’s possible that I’ll finish some task early than expected, so this date it’s not final, It is only an estimate time if only one person is working on the game with no budget.

Also I’m giving to each task enough time so I can do a quality work, specially because I’m in love with my game idea and story and I wanto to deliver the best that I can ^_^.

Game Progress

In order to have a good control over the project I made a Gantt chart to mesure the progress of the game.

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The current progress of the demo is 11% as you can see in the pic.

Updates

Thanks to the Gantt chart I made I can say for sure that you will receive an update every 2 saturdays. And here are almost all the dates (they are so many to put them in only one screencap):

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Not all updates will come with a new build to play but they will have good content to show.

Next Update

In this next 2 weeks I will be drawing concept art for the rest of the characters in the game, places and I’ll start to work in a cool intro so you can get a better idea about the story of EVO. I will show you the more important characters of the game and a little bio of them.

One more thing

Finally I like to draw some art of the game for fun, and I decided to sell them in tees at teepublic, so if you like my work and want to support it even further you can rock one of this designs:

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Tees link: Teepublic Store

They randomly go on sale for $14 so you can check them then. Also I can’t say when a new design will be up because I don’t know when I’ll have free time to do one.

Thanks a lot for following the game It means a lot to me! <3

Until next time!

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