Update May 2022

Firstly... I obviously really need to temper my use of the word 'imminent'...
I honestly thought that we were much closer than we were when I made that announcement a couple of weeks ago.

Apologies for having to explain more delays in adding the new game material to the new website.
In retrospect I should perhaps have kept my head down for a bit longer before announcing my plans for this series.

Anyway, it is what it is as, as they say...

What's frustrating for me is that I am so far along with remaking the existing parts of the story and I'm really happy with the depth and quality of work I'm producing.
It's the website platform that is proving to be the hurdle we need to overcome.
My assurances probably mean nothing to you guys until you can actually see and play through the game.

Unfortunately I had underestimated just how complex and time consuming the technicalities of creating a website platform which fulfills all the features I want to incorporate into the game playing experience.

It didn't really help, especially for my technical developer when I decided on a last minute restructure to the game.

Restructure
In order to simplify the narrative structure of the story and the game, we have decided to move to 'Chapters' rather than 'Episodes'.
Instead of Monday/Part One becoming 'Episode One: Part One' and 'Episode One: Part Two' etc, we are now using sequential Chapters.
So Monday morning is 'Chapter 1' and Monday afternoon is 'Chapter 2'.

Between each Chapter is a Checkpoint where you can see your achievements and save your progress.

The whole Chapter > Checkpoint > Chapter structure, makes so much more sense particularly with a planned sixteen chapters.
It's really important that we get this right from the outset because untangling things later will likely be a minor disaster.

Next release date...
I was thinking of pushing Chapters 1 & 2 up today along with the rest of the website page updates, but I now think that Monday will be a better option, so we can get feedback from our brilliant beta testers and so we can rapidly respond to any technical issues.
I'm unavailable over this coming weekend and want to be on hand to deal with any problems or enquiries.

The next update should be more positive!