Not so dark future...

[primetide_dev]

So, the game is down.
Servers contents are being neatly packed and stored, Database backed up and ready to be moved.

What happens now?
Well, we have basically agreed with MADE about them running the servers and we are helping with the move.
This faces a bunch of issues:
- domain name being part of the deployment process
- a very specific server set-up
- Steam Dev Accounts transfer (if we want to be able to preserve your character advancement)
- Microsoft allowing the whole thing

We are again spending our weekends in prepping for the above and now we are joined in this by the great people behind MADE.

This operation may fail at any of the above hurdles with different levels of likeliness.
IF it succeeds you guys will be the first to know and I will keep you updated about progress.

If you want to check what primetide is up to, you can go to The Underground games website [www.undergroundgames.de] and a core part of the team is working on a Fantasy themed turn-based strategy game releasing next year, which I will also be able to say more about soonish, I hope.


Thanks again for playing and here's to all of you!

[Crunch]

@Prime is trying to do this all on the up-and-up through a digital museum. Microsoft has agreed to this *in theory* but that kind of bureaucratic approval takes a lot of time to make it official, which we're in the middle of that 'long dark tea time of the soul' phase of it... That's what a good, responsible developer does.

That said, he's also mentioned that if it falls through, he wouldn't be surprised if a forgotten copy of it ended up somewhere...

Because I imagine he was also a shadowrunner before becoming a developer...

Crunch~

[Sabin]

Originally posted by Crunch:

@Prime is trying to do this all on the up-and-up through a digital museum. Microsoft has agreed to this *in theory* but that kind of bureaucratic approval takes a lot of time to make it official, which we're in the middle of that 'long dark tea time of the soul' phase of it... That's what a good, responsible developer does.

That said, he's also mentioned that if it falls through, he wouldn't be surprised if a forgotten copy of it ended up somewhere... :cyberdeck:

Because I imagine he was also a shadowrunner before becoming a developer... :snaggletooth:

Crunch~

Sounds awesome to me, chummer!

[rentier7419]

Prime is still doing/has done recently some shadowrunning on a german youtube channel (as player and as GM) - was fun to watch :D

*slides back into the shadows*

[knolle]

Originally posted by rentier7419:

Prime is still doing/has done recently some shadowrunning on a german youtube channel (as player and as GM) - was fun to watch :D

*slides back into the shadows*

Can you share the link with us?

[rentier7419]

this is the shadowrun-playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxnsx2h0AY&list=PL9lrD0EiOevRPivCfFsPIpFTqB3HRDHPS


have fun - viel Vergnügen :P

[knolle]

Thank you!

[primetide_dev]

Well, we have news...not exactly what I call a step forward, more a step sideward. We have been handed ovcer to yet another person at MS to take care of the thing and are now hunting down him to get things moving. Progress the megacorp way...

[0mega]

Thanks for the update, @primetide_dev!

I think it would be nice to have some kind of a "plan b" with community-hosted solutions. But that big hammer called "intellectual property" would probably be an obstacle.

[primetide_dev]

yes, the ONLY way this would work is oif someone accidentally left the code somwhere and forgot and someone else set that up. but that would never happen...would it?

[0mega]

No, that's plain unthinkable :D

[BEAR]

[prepares a new Unity project folder ...... TOTALY for another project] That can never happen right?

[rentier7419]

[the retreating shadows makes you see me talk to diferent shades in the wavering shadows]
becoming aware to be seen I quickly vanish in the shadow again

[Phoenix7786]

Originally posted by primetide_dev:

yes, the ONLY way this would work is oif someone accidentally left the code somwhere and forgot and someone else set that up. but that would never happen...would it?

This is one of reasons we supported you as we did. You have integrity to us backers and customers.

[Tasi]

Originally posted by Luke:

If you want to see it, Majicide made a full playthrough of the game and all the DLC in this youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJeCfXtw78_9YzNM4QrABDO0jiI0gWQ8Q

This has reminded me how I like the game and miss it so much...

[thedarkcloak]

Fingers crossed.