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What’s left before release of 0,08?

    -Having a few big playthroughs to check if every system is well connected and is working.

    -Making sure all the side content from earlier is accessible.

    -Making some small tutorials for the new systems and new players.

    -Making final tweaks to story parts and dialogues.

    -Proof reading and balancing some enemies.

So, what about the future of the Big Beyond?

This update is next to ready. Afterwards we are looking at releases between 2 and 4 months, depending on the type of content we are to dish out.

As some of you may know, right now the development of the Big Beyond is more of a passion project and we still need to work out main jobs in order to feed ourselves. I’m hopeful still that if the project reaches a bigger following I will be able to dedicate work on the game full time as I have in past times.

Story-wise, the next update will focus on the desert city, that's located on the northern part of the desert. Your involvement will be crucial in shaping the city's destiny. Will you contribute to transforming it into the desert's crown jewel, as it is destined to be, or allow it to decline into a decaying shell, plagued by crime and becoming a notorious center for illicit activities? The desert city story will cover between 2 and 3 updates because of it’s big scope. That being said, the desert city will not be the sole thing we will be putting out. I will work on the short story and quest for the orc girl and some things about the sister story will be re-written. It won’t be too different to the current one but the overall flow and dialogues will be better.

About the overall story, we've discussed the direction we wish to take everything. The whole new area, towns, characters are already planned. As I’ve said before – we will try to make the base game we have in mind first and then we can start adding all kinds of bonus stuff on top. There might also be some smaller rewrites/retcons to certain characters. That's still being discussed and we'll update you.

Regarding the battle system. There are still things that we are planning on adding, but we just didn't have the time to add them for this update. The next class will come as side content for a future update. I cannot say which class that might be, but maybe(a strong MAYBE) we can put it to a vote on patreon. The idea behind the class introductions is to have a questions to obtain the class and possibly even have a nice scene with a new female character related to the class fantasy. For example, if you are trying to unlock a class like Warlock, you get a nice scene with a demon.

Thank you for taking the time to read through this. I hope it was all interesting and worthwhile.

I wish you a great day and I also wish to again thank everyone who has supported me and this project through everything. It means the world to me, Tjop-