Hello and welcome back again from another maintenance period! At this point, we are growing ever closer to the release of the beans, kittens, and socials features. You will notice some visible changes to your cats' profiles now, but most other things should seem unchanged.
Most back-end changes were made admin-side so that I can begin implementing the flavortext portion of the update and setting up the item pools for the social encounters. However, do be on a lookout for bugs as many other pages had small changes made to them.
I do anticipate one more maintenance period like this before the final update.
What's still to do before beans, kittens, and social happen?
- About 80% of the social scenarios are written, but there is still another 20% to go. In addition, all of these will need to be implemented. This is a pretty significantly time-consuming task, especially with the editing work it entails.
- Nearly the entirety of the base framework for the socialization, relationship, and bean/kitten system is now in place. However! It is largely untested and very likely far too broken to let anyone actually use it. Over the next week, I plan to run some robust tests of the system on the local copy to fix it up, simulating multiple weeks in one go to test everything I can.
- There are some pages that still need to have the framework altered further. For example, I still need to do more work on the cats' profiles, the lonely kitten mechanic needs to be added, and a few remaining bits I didn't get to before today.
My time estimate for the final release is now roughly 2-4 weeks from now. Although this has been a lengthy process, this feature is one of the most complex parts of the site, so having worked through this will be a huge step forward in overall development.