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I love the feeling of seeing a new dev diary. <3

So I assume we won’t be seeing many new features over the next month, since you’re trying to finish it off for the prototype. Polishing it up not adding features, right? Also a quick question, the date you gave us (Oct 17th I think) – is that the date of release or do you expect to release it earlier?

As a slight correction: Tortoise SVN is not version control itself. It is a client for Subversion.

Me and my friends here in Gatineau are cheering you on!!!

Oh, and
“Met with a guy specialized in networking and multiplayer. Let’s say he would be a pretty awesome addition to our team. Not much to say about that for the moment, but it looks promising.”

DANG STRAIGHT!!!!!!

Just hope that single player wont be penalised by this, but highly doubt it.

Please respond Saurpod: Do you have more screenshots?
I don’t care if they are old or new, I just want to see more :c

Can’t wait!!!

Brace yourselves: 12yrs old whiners complaining about the prototype release are coming.

Yay! nouveau dev diary!
le soundtrack of the week est énorme, jsusi content que la team qui développe un jeu comme ca écoute ce style (trip-hop, éléctro,…) la BO du jeu risque de promettre! :)
dernieres lignes droites avant le release du prototype, keep up the good work!

I am really happy to hear all those news. One thing is bothering me. Is the singleplayer will be an individual code? In minecraft they merge the SP and MP together and created a buggy singleplayer, which I don’t like. So it will be awesome if the MP and SP have two different codes.

Great news, but I want to read something about prototype’s release date =p

Super glad things are moving along nicely, when you guys get situated in your new place you should definitely share some photos. I bet a lot of us would love to see what,”that extra” money was used for. I just want to geek out about it. :)

It would be nice if you could go on replying sprees sometimes Sauropod. :D

Welcome back Germain! Super excited to see what you guys come up with for the digging tools. You guys did a great job with the user registration, I also expected more problems due to the speed at which you produced it but it sounds like it worked great. Glad to hear you guys are starting on multiplayer I’m sure it’ll be sweet! Good to hear that you’re not using a NDA. Stay chill.

To The Moon!

nice update ^^

Tortoise SVN is a pretty nice tool, I used it myself for my team when we worked on a mod for Battlefield 2 “back in the day” ;) saved us soooo much time, since the team was build up from a few guys around the world working on the mod as a hobby ^^ funny to read that you guys use it to.

hello world!

YAY!

=D

Hello Sauropod!
I really respect you for this project, it is abitious and ingenious but I am slowly starting to be impatient… I understand that you have some problems, you could’t have known about earlier, But we all have paid for a product and most people propably can wait even longer for release, but give us real date when you will send prototype to us.
Good luck!

Great work sauropod way to use your resources :) and nice merging the codes together it sounds like a long painstaking problem that you have there. xD good luck and have fun with it!

wonderful update… loving this particular piece:

“I continued working on the UI and Benoît on the tunnel digging tools. We’re trying to figure our a way to display the exact opposite of a phantom brick, and then large patches of those (in the case of underground tunnel networks). François is also working on ways to group tasks together. This would allow a player to work on two different parts of the castle and simply assign Bricktrons to one group or the other. We also finally added an undo functionality. Ctrl-z!”

Great update. Have you guys thought about selling preorders on the website? Since the Kickstarter is over, you could just make it a bit more expensive, like 20 dollar. And they would get into the beta with that.
I guess it would take a bit of time to make that, since you will first have to finish of the castle story website, but i imagine, when the prototype is out and there will be quite a few gameplay videos on youtube, you would see a lot of people who would love to preorder the game.

So excited, we a drawing ever so closer to the release of the prototype (Oct 17th)

Thats great, a donate button, good idea

Getting closer and closer to Oct 17th!! :DDD

Guys, the release date has been said one thousand times by now:

November, 25th

Stop asking, please.

what a shame I dind’t received my activation code.
I even wrote a email twice about that.

Come on Sauropod developers! Post some gameplay videos , they dont have to show new features, just you building stuff.

I can’t get the image of a well-oiled game dev team out of my head now.

Your merging problem sounds exactly like the kind of problem that Git was made for. You should really consider using it in the future, it’s way superior to SVN and a great help when developing in a team.

Best part:

“Met with a guy specialized in networking and multiplayer.”

Are the sound tracks of the week going to be ingame? Or are they just random?

Is anybody else not receiving emails when new dev diaries are posted? I’m a bit worried that I typed in my email wrong for backing.

Post a gameplay video about fighting and building, please! Show us real gameplay!

Ew, SVN. Use Git!

Aw yeah, Catgroove! *dance party*

Hey Sauropod! Just wondering if there is any way to subscribe to these dev blogs to save me checking each day :) Had a quick look around but couldn’t find anything, so if it doesn’t exist it would be an awesome addition to the site :)

Thanks for the update! We appreciate it (: It’s always nice to know what’s going on as we wait for the prototype and actual game.

peace

Ahhhhh, Parov Stelar rules ^^

“Will there be an NDA on the prototype?”

I wholeheartedly approve of your stance. It is true that no matter what you do there will be someone who figures out a way around any restrictions you may try to place or any DRM you try to use and trying to do so only creates friction between the players and the staff and as a result the game’s development is hindered. So in my opinion the best thing to do is concentrate on making the game as good as it can be so people will -want- to buy the game to support it’s development and the company who created it.

Plus the way I see it the harder you try to make it the more interesting the challenge for those who like to test their abilities.

I’m glad I have supported this game. Not only because the game itself seems interesting but because the people making it are refreshing.

I’m excited, but I can wait. It will be worth it, of that I am sure.

What I would really like to see sometime is a Bricktron or two doing a little dance.

By the way, this week’s soundtrack is pretty nifty. Thanks for sharing it.

Thank you for talking about the NDA… it was getting absolutely nauseating in the forums. Really and truly, an NDA for such a large userbase would never fly and is not common practice. If you’re going to put an NDA on a videogame it’s usually a really small group.

Glad things are underway and hope the merging of code goes smoothly and can’t wait for mid-October!

All the best!

Glad to hear work is running smoothly!

P.S.New soundtrack is amazing!

Being one of (many) sponsors, I can’t wait for this game to come out and for a chance to try out the prototype, this game looks really awesome! :-) A nice report too, can almost see you all crowded, bent double in front of your computers and trying to cope with Subversion – wait, that sounds almost like my work office, although we aren’t producing games here (sadly). ;-)

This game and X-Com will take up a lot of my spare time in the near future. :-)

Guys I am somewhat dissappointed, in your blog you said you were going to release the game shortly after the kickstarter, it’s been a few weeks and before and during the kickstarted I checked every day for updates on the blog and now only maybe once a week since theres no point if they game isn’t coming out. Another thing is that I really hope that the prototype comes out and is out at LEAST 1-2 months before the beta, since a prototype is a game just about playable, and is usually “released” many months or sometimes a year before the game actually comes out, it is something at the edge of playabe and I didn’t pay extra money to get a game 1-2 weeks before it comes out. (I would still pay for the game but you get my point, that it’s been a long time since the kickstarter and we who did pay more then others should actually earn something on it)

Excuse me, If this question was…

What about the modding and API for modders?
It would be really nice to see mods for CastleStory.

Look to Minecraft – at least 4 popular mods: Forestry, Industrial Craft, Buildcraft, RedPower and a tone of small mods (my current minecraft build has 45 mods).

I think it is strictly required to nearest time after release – it allows to fund new and new money from new users, which want to get CastleStory.
It is new lives of the game.

What do you think about this? Thank you, Oleg

fuck you people! when the game is coming, if think yout only trickin’ us and took all money and now only brainwashing people!!!!!!!!!

What the hell did you just say fuk…?

Keep it up guys I’m sure it’s gonna be awesome. And by the way, the soundtrack is great thanks! Looking forward to playing the game.

“a way to display the exact opposite of a phantom brick, and then large patches of those (in the case of underground tunnel networks)”

Super-interested to see how you solve this. It’s a feature that could have massively valuable in things like Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. E.g here (you only see the surface, even though there’s tons of stuff underground):

http://minecraftonline.com/map/#/8253/64/5121/max/0/0

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