DoubleDvideogames wrote:
Wow, you guys are amazing! That game looks super cool.
I think I read somewhere, and please correct me if I am wrong, that you wanted to release both Aretha 1 and 2 basically at the same time, is that still a plan? or just going to release them when they are ready regardless?
For the longest time, what you said was our stated intention. We changed it late last year. We'll release in the order we can get projects ready.
The next release could be Aretha-II, but it will more likely be one of the other V0.99s, probably the one that needs the least amount of graphics conversions.
I will be taking my time with the O-II ending, for I have quite a bit to run down with Aretha-I. I am finally at a point where I can concentrate, whereas with O-II, I could make productive headway whether I had five minutes or five hours of distraction-free time available these past few summer months.
I know of only three remaining graphics hacks needed on O-II, the back-screen moving Japanese script in the chambers of name-changing wizards, on-screen battle Kanji that pops up routinely, and one tiny portion of the title screen. I believe I will propose keeping the spelling "Odysselya". The translation is "Odyssea" (not "Odyssey" - the game isn't Homeric, it's more "Orpheus in the Underworld" or "Dantes Inferno").
But I do want to change the smaller-script Japanese at the top of the title page to read "Sacred Age". I'm hoping a special "somebody" can assist us with that!
BTW, a chunk of the game takes place in Paris, France in 1192 A. D. (and the French Alps). Until I researched, I didn't know that King Richard-I of England (the Lionheart) "owned" half of France. That's probably why King Philip-II of France and Richard didn't get along so well in the Port of Acre, Holy Land, during 1192 A. D. in the middle of the 3rd Crusade, trying to dislodge the infidels from Jerusalem! King Philip-II supported Pope Celestine III in Rome. King Richard? Not so much. Amazing game! Chapters take place worldwide in all of the continents except Antarctica, and also on a few mythical islands.