Wetwoo:
Lately, I have been seeing a lot of clamoring for MKF v0.5 Beta from the forumgoers here. I will ask you to be patient. That means: *No asking for release dates. *No posting any topics about the state of 0.5 until the devs themselves say something about it. *No prodding the devs for information not yet released about v0.5.
As long as it's been since v0.4.1 (October 2010), the devs have other things besides working on a fangame that they will not get paid for. It will be ready when it's ready.
Don't make this any harder on the devs than it already is. Please be patient.
Lars Luron:
On that note I'd like to apologize; I've announced like three-four times now (including once or twice on the old boards) that v0.5 was coming "relatively soon", but each time I seem to keep underestimating just how long it's taking to get all the necessary work done. A lot of the time it seems like it shouldn't take that long to complete a certain step of the process, and then Game Maker just up and throws us a curve ball that we end up having to take extra time to sort out.
This is probably the shining example of exactly why we don't give release dates; because even we have no idea just how long it's going to take to get everything working the way we want it. Even if we try to guess we have no way to predict what kind of weird problems might pop up that would delay progress.
That said, we are close to finishing in terms of overall things we need to do. We just need to finish the first round of bug-testing, send it back through the testers for another pass, fix any last problems that spring up, and hopefully we should be ready to go.
Lastly, we'd like to give special thanks to those of you in the community who have been patient with the development process all this time. We hope everything will be worth the wait.
Keiang:
--- Quote from: Lars Luron on February 05, 2012, 05:43:42 pm ---worth the wait.
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...So we've been running on Valve time?
Warcheeso:
awesome Lars. I just hope my computer can run it Decently XD Good to know about the progress with the beta testing. with how long it has been since it has been in, there just HAS to be a ton of stuff, especially because of all the Temporary Testers added on this round and it still taking a couple of months O.O
Calvan:
--- Quote from: Keiang on February 05, 2012, 06:13:47 pm --- --- Quote from: Lars Luron on February 05, 2012, 05:43:42 pm ---worth the wait.
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...So we've been running on Valve time?
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best kind of time to be running on. Think of it as making an illegal danish. It takes like... Six months to make. But it's so good. *waits for illegal danish*
"Illegal Danish, hope your not hungry! It's gonna be a while."