{"id":1067,"date":"2015-05-30T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T21:03:09","slug":"weekly-nestalgia-news-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/weekly-nestalgia-news-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly NEStalgia News Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PyramidOne of my big struggles this past year has been in communicating\u00a0my development progress (and for many months last summer\/fall, the lack thereof). Especially when it comes to the Key of the Exiles content expansion, I’ve felt self conscious posting previews etc. in the face of so many delays. My reasoning has been that long time players probably don’t want to preview\u00a0what’s in the works; they\u00a0just want to play it already.<\/p>\n

The feedback that I’ve been receiving, however, runs contrary to that. Even in the absence of a clear\u00a0release date, many oldbies\u00a0are curious about the expansion and want to know more about it. NEStalgia also continues to sell really well on Steam,\u00a0meaning that\u00a0there are lots of\u00a0new players discovering the game every month who want to see more signs of progress from the dev team.<\/p>\n

All in all, I think that most players\u00a0want to hear from me on a regular basis – even if I don’t have much to report. Therefore, my plan this summer is to drop the\u00a0“only show up when you have something to say” approach\u00a0and trying something new.<\/p>\n

From here on out I’ll be posting\u00a0weekly development blog updates every Thursday. I can’t promise that the weekly posts will always be full of exciting new information, but players will\u00a0at least have the opportunity to see what I’m working on and ask questions. The question that I have for all of you is this: What do you want me to show and\/or write\u00a0about?<\/p>\n

I’m wary of spoilers when it comes to the expansion, but I’d like to show screenshots of the new areas and at least general descriptions of what’s going on in them. I also have some back-end updates in the works that could drastically increase the size of servers. If you have something else that you’d like me to address (no matter how big or how small), leave a comment on this post or future weekly update posts, and I’ll try to cover all requests.<\/p>\n

The first weekly update will be posted this coming Thursday. In the meantime, here are several new screenshots from the expansion for you to digest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\n

\"Caption<\/a>
The first line of the “Back to Balzack” cutscene where your journey picks up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n

\"Out<\/a>
Sailing out\u00a0to never before seen lands! This is\u00a0the deck of your new ship.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

\"Test\"<\/a>
The Pyramid of Higaza is home to many dangerous traps…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n

\"Test\"<\/a>
The main door that you’ll need the “Key of the Exiles” for.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my big struggles this past year has been in communicating\u00a0my development progress (and for many months last summer\/fall, the lack thereof). Especially when it comes to the Key of the Exiles content expansion, I’ve felt self conscious posting previews etc. in the face of so many delays. My reasoning has been that long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}