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Obsidian @OpalSys7/10/2023, 12:10 AM

corru.works @corru

corru.works @corru7/9/2023, 10:48 PM

the time draws near! + anniversary wall of text

^{p.s. click da play button}

last year on July 13, i launched EP0 of corru.observer on neocities! wow! it was also my birthday! double wow! corru observer anniversary on the corru anniversary... this has massive implications for the lore

there's not going to be anything special for the anniversary, because all of my 'something special' energy has been focused into EP3! we are in the last stretch of finalizing everything and all is going well, that two week delay I ended up doing was soo needed.

here's some newz

EP3

we've been working super hard on this and i'm quite excited for the moments that await you! the plan is to launch it on the 16th, then focus on bug fixes and stuff for a bit and then keep on goin...

something to note is that EP3 is also contained entirely within the collapse, and it will not have memory hole codes right away! it's just a big ol chunk of content with some cool new stuff! it's probably like 2.5x as long as base EP2, i think... depending on how much you read

da future

i'd like to do at least one additional episode update (ADD) to add some codes and more content across the site... but i gotta make a decision: do i do an EP3ADD, or go right to EP4 (will be smaller than EP3) to finish the collapse arc, then do ADDs for both? it is a dilemma... if you have thoughts let me know!!

maybe we could figure something out where, like... i try to fit in little updates each month while i'm workin on the next big one - even if it ends up making the big one take longer, you wouldn't be left for months without anything new. but also, that means those little updates could really only be, like, memory hole/weird html/simple 3D stage pages, they couldn't feasibly be anything complex. and i like to surprise you!! so that bugs me

idk i've really got mixed feelings about how long it takes me sometimes. and I really need to be careful about time given how November universally becomes a black hole hell month where I die ^{(must focus on my job)} and get tortured in hell ^{(can't work on anything)} forever ^{(for a month)}

ANYWAY!! rambles over .. PLEAS enjoy this creature that pocl has created! you will meet them very soon!

#corru.observer #geli #corru.news

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Kirobsi @Kirobsi7/9/2023, 11:26 PM

I think doing EP3ADD before EP4 would make sense! I think having a lil update to flesh the big update out some more makes sense before moving onto the next big update. I like having things become more complete before moving on, it incentivizes exploring around stuff that's already there without being all that overwhelming I think o,o whereas doing ADDs for two big updates at once might make it feel like. woah. I've gotta look around all this stuff for the little polish-y bits. Like the pacing of lots of big stuff and then lots of little stuff might feel like it drags a little? Might make the wait seem 'longer' in that sense. Though that may well be a faulty understanding on my part in some way >w> I've not released any games and like,, yeah I'm not exactly a design expert or whatever.

I dunno, I think any dev time for an update is okay. remotely within reason I suppose, but that hasn't seemed to be an issue here so eh. I'm happy to wait however long for whatever amount of stuff, it's cool enough that corru dot obsburger is even a thing! It is free for us, after all

corru.works @corru7/10/2023, 12:14 AM

true!! it would be sort of a weird thing pacing wise to do it that way... but it would also make sense within my plans for post-collapse 😈 thank you for your thoughts kiwi!!

right now i'm leaning towards doing just one EP3ADD for general site content and some cool side stuff, and then save the 'hard mode' ADD for after EP4 is done (most likely before the end of the year... we'll see how the math works out!! november is da big wildcard)

Penn @PennTeller7/9/2023, 11:41 PM

Friend! I feel that EP3ADD after EP3 would be nice as we could wait a month or so for some more stuff to explore and dig around through before waiting for EP4 proper. Corru Drought doesn't seem to affect everyone that much since we have both modding and also giving a lot of material means all sorts of people can jump on different parts of it for discussion. Best of luck with wrapping up EP3 development!

corru.works @corru7/10/2023, 12:21 AM

thanks for da comment Penn! i've been talkin with a few people and i'm leaning towards an EP3ADD, the more I think about it the more clear it is how weird it would be to just drop EP3, which is sort of a little content island, and then disappear into the dev hole 🕳️ for another few months... like, if EP2 didn't have those two ADDs, and I waited all the way until after EP4 came out to do them, the site would be wicked boring after you're done with EP0/EP1 and know there's no other secrets to find outside of the embassy. we gotta keep it wild