Utopia Classic Developers’ Update 6th May
Another Wednesday, another update from Brian and Sean. Please comment on this latest blog on the forums:
Hi Everyone,
Once again, we don’t have a lot to say. Nonetheless, here’s a brief update on progress.
For the last few weeks, we’ve mainly been implementing non-core game features, such as the province messaging, the kingdom and war forums, rankings, browsing kingdoms and so on. At this point, we are basically done with these. We have the following tasks left:
* End of age transition. This means the logic that runs when an age ends, and which sets up the subsequent age.
* Feedback system. This is for easy feedback from you guys on everything from bugs to regular support queries.
* Ad integration. For our monies.
* Premium account/payment and account sitting.
* Sundry account settings. Password reset, email verification, vacation mode settings.
* Site styling. This is about creating the look and feel of the site with CSS. We haven’t really done any work to speak of on this yet, so the development version is pig-flu’ ugly. For alpha/beta, we are planning on just getting the site visuals roughly up to the current level (or perhaps a little bit cleaner), nothing too fancy.
We’re testing things as we go, and are killing all the bugs we come across as we find them. When all the features above are done, we’re going to spend a while doing pure internal testing to find the obvious bugs, before going to alpha to track down the more subtle ones.
Sean & Brian