#mod lethal

Thank you for waiting all this time, and hello again.

Mod Lethal

Hello, everyone! Here’s an update, the following section written by the team’s composer, which has been announced on Discord. ~~~~~

Hey there, @everyone! So me and the team have said that we have a plan for ADiT going forward, but the thing is that we never actually told you The Plan (Trademark, patent pending). Bit overdue now, but here it is!

Going forward, we’re scaling back the sizes of our updates for each build. Instead of trying to get every character done for an area, we’re only laser-focusing on one character’s route per update. As for who we’re starting with, well, we’re somewhat going back to our routes and we’ll be releasing Snatcher first!

We’re still in early development for his route, but we know what it’s going to be and all that jazz

The reasoning is mostly due to the size of the team and the amount of work we can reasonably put into the game without it being too much. Especially art and writing wise. Also, applications will be open at some point soon, so if you were wanting to join the team as an artist or writer, be on the lookout for that! So, yeah! I hope y’all are doing well and have a great day! ~~~~

Given that many of us on the team have become very busy due to jobs, life, and health, we’ve relaxed the process for applying. We’re looking for artists and especially writers and programmers at the moment, and all you have to do is join the discord. You can DM me or a mod, or if you don’t want to or feel uncomfortable with that for any reason, you can also post in #application-zone to get feedback from the dev team as well as fellow fans, making for a more open and transparent process.

Depending on how quickly this progresses, our goal for the next playable build is for a full release of the Snatcher path- specifically, the neutral end path only. This is so we can test new features and systems we’ve implemented since the last build, and see what you all think of them!

So, let’s get this out of the way. 2020 sucked. It was horrible. A lot of us just didn’t have the time, energy, or both, to work on A Date in Time. It’s unfortunate, but it happened. However, this does not mean ADIT is abandoned or is going to be in the near future.

It’s a new year, and this new year hasn’t started out the best, but we should still work hard to make it better than 2020. And that’s our plan! We just got too ambitious for how big we want the game to be, when we’re all amateurs with our own lives. 

So, with all that in mind, we’re changing our approach. Instead of working to make one big game with 6 routes, we’re going to develop ADIT 1/3rd at a time, by the area! The Mafia Town Routes (Mafia Boss and Cooking Cat), The Dead Bird Studio routes (Conductor and DJ Grooves), and The Subcon Forest Routes (Snatcher and Moonjumper).  This should be much easier for the team to accomplish with a narrower focus, and if push comes to shove and ADIT somehow does come to an end before the finished product is completed, you guys should hopefully end up with at least one full pair of routes. So, basically, this is an episodic format. First, you’ll get one pair of routes in a build in addition to the preview content. Then the second in the second release. And the third will (hopefully, if we don’t need to fix a ton of bugs...) be the final release!

Thank you for all of those still following this blog and watching for updates. We’ve been slow and I personally apologize for that.

Mod Twi has said goodbye to the team, amiably. Just busy and moving onwards! We’ve all just been really busy with our own lives and stuff.

We use Ren’Py! It’s an open source engine for creating visual novels, and it’s very beginner-friendly.

Now that everything has calmed down and everyone now has more time to work on ADIT due to certain world events, I am here to officially announce that we’re on our way to finishing our third and most likely final pre-release build!

After finishing this build and seeing feedback, we’re hoping that the next thing we release will be the final game.

ALPHA V2 FEATURES:

ONE EXTRA DAY OF STORY!

SOME SHINY NEW ASSETS!

TWEAKS TO PROGRAMMING AND FIXED BUGS!

So, when will V2 come out?  It’ll be out when it’s ready.

The last build had a lot of bugs and oversights left in due to rushing to meet a deadline, and I’ve learned my lesson from that. No more rushing.

Now that things are calm and everyone has time, development should pick back up again. Keep an eye out for regular updates to resume here!

And lastly... Anonymous asks are now open again! Just as before, though, be courteous! I don’t want to have to turn off anons again!

Maybe? We haven’t written that far in yet.

The project has slowed down development significantly due to the.... current events, going on around the world. Everyone has been rather busy.

It’s not abandoned, but because of everything going on, I can’t provide any kind of timeframe for the Alpha 2 or the full game’s release, anymore.