{"id":99,"date":"2008-09-12T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-09-12T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T15:38:08","slug":"kudos-2-feature-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/09\/12\/kudos-2-feature-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos 2 Feature Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos 2 is definitely feature complete. Unless feedback from potential website partners or play testers is focused on anything specific missing, I won&#8217;t be putting any new features into the game from here on. It already has a ton of stuff in, much more so than the original, and presented 100 times better. From here onwards (and this shouldn&#8217;t be more than a few weeks now), it&#8217;s a case of playing the game, and polishing it, and playing it again etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/kudos2\/images\/thumb_image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most common issues that come up in my daily playthroughs now are just balance tweaks. There&#8217;s no bugs in terms of features not working or conflicting, and there hasn&#8217;t been a crash bug for weeks, if not months. This hopefully means it should be relatively plain sailing. I&#8217;m close enough to release to actually be talking to my portal-publishing partner about the game, and will be directly contacting some portals closer to the release date.<\/p>\n<p>In the big picture sense, Kudos 2 is a <strong>BIG <\/strong>deal for me. I&#8217;ve never spent so much time and money on a game before, and heading into a global economic downturn means potentially tough times ahead. If I can make Kudos 2 as big a success as my last big game (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracygame.com\">Democracy 2<\/a>), then I&#8217;ll be trundling along ok and not nervously eyeing the bank balance. I think it&#8217;s a far better game than Democracy 2, although thankfully I always tend to be most motivated about whatever I&#8217;m currently working on (a big contrast with most people in mainstream game development).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, feature complete, today, hopefully code complete and on sale by the first week of October. *crosses fingers*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos 2 is definitely feature complete. Unless feedback from potential website partners or play testers is focused on anything specific missing, I won&#8217;t be putting any new features into the game from here on. It already has a ton of stuff in, much more so than the original, and presented 100 times better. From here<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Kudos 2 Feature Complete<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/09\/12\/kudos-2-feature-complete\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-kudos","tag-kudos-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}