Updates!
December 9th, 2009 by Macguffin
I realized the other day that we’ve pretty much been radio-silent since the lack-of-IGF announcement. Apologies on that! We’ve pretty much been busting our butts working on the game – so, yes, we’re still very much alive and kicking.
In part, what was at first an instinctual thing on my part became a conscious plan – I haven’t talked too much about the game and how it is shaping up mostly because it’s been changing a lot. The ideas we had on paper changed as they became functional features, which in turn changed as we moved towards integrating those features with each other, and then again as we are starting to create the first game content.
I promise we will be letting more information out as time goes on – we just want to time it properly and have decent odds the features won’t change in a day or two.
As far as work on the game is progressing: it’s going very well! Graham and I have been working hard on all fronts. We may not have something for friends-and-family to play in December, but that’s not a bad thing – we’re finding lots of obvious changes to make as we continue with what I outlined above. I’ll avoid saying what else I expect for our schedule for now, since I tend to immediately make a liar of myself.
In other news, we will be changing the name of the game. We have winnowed things down to a handful of favorites, but are going to sit on them and think about it for a bit. Sadly, “Heritage” is de facto trademarked by The Settlers, or rather the rebranded “Heritage of Kings: The Settlers“. Because of how trademark law works, they could pretty much argue that any video game title that starts with Heritage is a violation of their trademark. Somewhat a bummer, but so it goes – since I wouldn’t be surprised that they had to change that title because of friction with Settlers of Catan, I can’t get too bent out of shape about it.
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