Slight Delay for the Beta

I did not have as much free time this week as hoped and the beta is close but not ready yet. A few more days so either late this weekend or early next week at this stage.

My apologies I did lose some time playing a game release one evening, SuperPowered at the Hypnopics site
http://www.hypnopics-collective.net/smf_forum/index.php?topic=21072.0
(forum registration needed)
The game is a bit grindy but fun, and by all means not complete but in continual development.

EDIT:
Pretty much working fine now, except some minor issues around what tabs appear where, but that is just really fine tuning
EDIT:
tab issues resolved, a couple of small issues remain around houses and the new widescreen map for Mardukane. I thought I had fixed this before, but I seem to have lost the changes, I guess at the time I had a hardrive failure recently, not sure how otherwise I lost the changes. Most of these fixes are cosmetic not functional.
EDIT:
All working fine so far. I just need to run through a few test trainings to confirm things are generally working otherwis
EDIT:
Found some issues for icons and stat images, all fixed, but another test train needed. So I will release the beta tomorrow

Plans for 3.5 Release and Beta

Hi all,
just to note, based on my current workload and progress of changes, I am aming now to start a round of beta tests for the new version next weekend.

At this time I am going to call it version 3.5, mainly due to extensive user interface changes, not due to significant other functional changes.

I am still finishing some of the changes, the largest remaining change it is rearrange the display of stats for slaves and smalvematers but that is a common block of code/ui stuff so one change more or less does both.

Fenoxo forum

Hi all,
the fenoxo subforum for SlaveMaker is down (along with a lot of fenoxo's content) due to hosting problems on thieor end.

Fenoxo has talked about alternate hosting and reloading backups, so the subforum should be back, I will post when it is.

Status

A new release of 3.4.03 is still in development, I had been aiming for a release at the end of last month, but a combination of a dead harddrive and a bad, bad cold have slowed things down.

At this stage my apologies I think I will promise a release by the end of this month but nothing more concrete.

Any developers with new content please contact me preferably by PM at the Futanari Palace or Fenoxo Forums to ensure I include everything in the new release.

Computers can be annoying

My boot harddrive just failed, a great pain. No data was lost, I backup regularly and keep most important data on a different drive anyway. Note: I recommend the tool MozBackup, greatly simplifies copying browser details over for FireFox and Thunderbird.

Still, had the expense of a new drive that I could barely afford, and then the time to reinstall Windows, apply updates and re-install everything.

I did though pay the bit extra for a SSD drive, and have tried to configure to maximise drive life. There are a lot of sometimes contradictory suggestions for that, I have done the common ones.

Only just got Flash working again for the game though.

More Status

Just to let people know I am still alive and working on the game.

I have had a bad cold for the last couple of weeks, really annoying and persistent, but I am diabetic and all illnesses just last longer commonly for diabetics.

I am working and supporting the game via the forums, but I admit I have been somewhat low profile recently, answering questions where I can, but not very active in discussions.

I am working on the game but not a huge amount recently, a combination of things. Motivation can be an issue at times, and also I have a couple of other games I have been working on at the Hypnopics Collective and at the TFGame Site. I am trying to not let any particular thing dominate but it takes up my free time (games linked to the right but note registration is required for the forums).

I am seeding the current Slave Maker game release and a beta was posted a while ago for 3.4.03. It is an update only and has bugs
https://mega.co.nz/#!ZwAhASJZ!4rnAlzIBp1uMOi5-pyBLdO0BIVh0iXxP-2Pnz87oVlo

At this stage I am aiming to release an update/new release of SlaveMaker by the end of July (or near to there, health allowing)

Note:
for the other linked games
Tales of the Drunken Cowboy
Overwhored
have both had new versions released in the recent past.

Status

Please excuse a lack of updates. I have been rather unwell for the last couple of weeks so little progress recently.

In advance thanks for any best wishes to get better, but no need to post comments to that effect, I am a little tired of discussing health issues and would prefer to just discuss the game itself. I will avoid posting about health and such in the future.

No estimate at this time of when I will be able to finish the new update, it should hopefully be in the near future.