Hiya everyone,
Since our Alpha ruleset launched July 19th, we’ve heard so much feedback from you all. Lots of positive and negative, but the ratio is heartening to see. It makes us feel like the time and effort we put in were worthwhile, and it’s genuinely a great feeling to have a supportive community, even with the mistakes and oversights. We want to get this ruleset right to make the experience for you all as engaging as we can and to that end we haven’t stopped working on clarifications and feedback as well as the supplemental systems we wanted to touch up or overhaul before we move into Beta. (Some of you have even helped us test some things out!)
The bad news is that we’re gonna push back the Beta release by a month, so it’ll release in November instead of October like we’d initially forecast. Like with any delay, we feel that we owe some amount of explanation to our community. We don’t believe our goal or timeline was ambitious, however there were some unexpected new circumstances this year that we could not have foreseen. James is an integral part of the design process for the rules and game as a whole, but with the new Lunar Faire happening bi-weekly at camp, a pick-up in weddings, and a historically high workload for the Renn Faire, he both has been and will continue to be incredibly busy until after the Faire concludes.
What this means for us is an extra month of testing while we plan out some of these systems and work to get the rules working as intended. We might even be able to sneak some of the things we’d planned for release in Final into the Beta rulebook! But don’t tell the rest of the team I said that, I’ve buried it so far down on purpose.
As planned, we’ll be giving an update in December on our progress towards our finalisation date regardless.
We also have some other neat things we’ll be rolling out in the near future so please be on the lookout!
If you have any feedback about our current rules, we’re still discussing it in our weekly meetings and we’d love to hear from you either good or bad:
https://forms.gle/B9PZh1UG9Ey2W6oJA
tl;dr: beta is delayed by a month because of the moon, marriages, and idk “the enlightenment”