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Release or Not: HTH Unity

Published: December 24th 2017, 7:04:28 pm

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I realize things have been very slow for the tiers below Alpha Team. The reason for this is because again, Flash is becoming abandonware, and websites are moving away from support, so I've had to focus all my attention on rebuilding HTH in Unity.

Unity is all new to me and I'm learning as I build HTH in that system. Currently there are many aspects of the HTH Unity build that do not work for example:

Known Bugs

  • Screen resolution/size does not always stay full screen. Screen resolution does not save between play sessions.
  • Main Menu limited to Play & Quit at this time
  • Escape menu is NOT working. The only way out in a lot of cases is to Alt+tab
  • Game appears to freeze when loading new level data. Levels will load, just takes a few moments.
  • Guides Merile and Patty Dialog screen activate but are not functional/ Do not have ability to go back/ must alt tab to quit out
  • NPCs Rio and Jeanette bypass dialog screen entirely and load the first option available. Must alt+tab quit.
  • Cave entrance is functioning, however exiting the cave warps back to the dock. Minor but can be disorienting.
  • Falling off the map is possible if you dive off the edge.
  • The occasional floating tree.

Notes:

  •  The Only interactive characters at this time are Rio and Jeanette.
  • The only area that is currently accessible is the Visitor's Center; however, the region is much larger than the Visitor's Center that appears in the flash build. Please keep in mind this is an entire region not just one building. You would also have access to the Sapphire Monument, and the Lagoon.
  • At this time the game does not have any actual freezes, just areas where the GUI doesn't show up "locking" the player in a screen with no way out.  
  • Game Installation is VERY basic at this point. Unzip TestNC zip and run TestNC.exe
  • At this time we do not have a patch system implemented, simply delete the previous version and install the latest. Overwriting a previous build will cause errors

Now, given all of that, I am asking Gold members, would you like to have access to the unity build as is, despite ALL of the things listed above that DO NOT work knowing full well that it is unfinished? Or would you rather it wait to release HTH until most of the above problems are fixed?

Let me know in the votes below.