Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Hi Shannon.

Are you planning on releasing stage 1 of LTU and then moving onto DMSI? Or doing the ENTIRE LTU first before moving onto DMSI? Because, based off your words of 3-4 weeks for LTU, I don't see how all of LTU can be done in such a time frame. Seems like it'd take like months or something, especially since it's now going to be a multi-stage.

Just wanted to hear about the process for that, thanks a lot Shannon.

The original idea was to build Stage 1 and then move to something else, and then I quickly realized that would not work.  It may take me longer than a month to build whatever comes next.  So I plan to build between 2 and all stages of LTUv6 before I move on.  Most likely 2-3 and then I will move to something else.

DMSI is in place to be that something else.  I'm really looking forward to seeing how some of the changes I'm going to make play out.

My original estimate that it would take 3-4 weeks was for script work.  Not building.  That estimate comes from the fact that nothing can be added in terms of new titles, so what can be done us upgrading the skeleton script and optimizing the existing titles.  It may be that that estimate is too low.  I don't know.  Take it as a minimum.  You know how these things tend to go by now.

I'll be working as quickly as possible, but as always, correctness is above speed.