Defending Lydia Collier Development Log

Hello everybody!

Just a quick update on how things are going.

Most of the update is now in Alpha Testing, just a couple of final days need polishing and v.0.20 will be complete.

So far the long time I've spent bug testing and doing things properly is really paying off, measure twice, cut once and all that, and finally we have a game without bugs!

Upcoming BETA testing:

The Alpha Testing team is very small and they're all volunteers, so I'm going to expand the early testing on what I consider "done and ready to go" to a beta test stage on Monday 2nd March to everybody at the Supporter Tier and above.

This will be the full game including everything bar the final weekend (ends Week 2, Thursday Night), you can play this and see everything, the new missions, new scenes with Tanya and both Lydia's new dates, and this will be the full finished game if you would like to, and then let me know if you get any bugs.

Two Caveats:

One - USE THE NEW BUG REPORTING SYSTEM - more on this at the bottom.

Two - This BETA will be stand-alone, so you will not be able to take your saves in v.0.20, this is for testing (or if you just want to see the new scenes), it is not to set up your saves for v.0.20.

Bug Reporting:

Some people, and I, have noticed some bug reports currently get missed and you don't really get any feedback, especially if you report a bug and then somebody else reports a bug without me seeing it.

So I've made a bug reporting tool in Discord.

USE DISCORD TO REPORT BUGS!

Discord is entirely free (https://discord.gg/gRv4BFq6WY) and regardless where you got the game, you can all report it there.

The new bug reporting tool will upload your bug directly to a public webpage - https://trello.com/b/jf280F38/bugs-issues - where I can add notes to it, see all the bugs in one place, give feedback, issue fixes, and it is public, so anybody can quickly look at the board and see "oh Emma Day 15 bug is set to in progress, I don't need to report my identical Day 15 bug".

It is set up so whenever anything changes on the webpage it will automatically message you back in Discord tell you any notes I've put on it, if I need more info, if it's been fixed etc, and it is set up to also contact me via Slack privately when new bug reports come in, and to automatically ping, bump and notify me if bugs are unfixed for an extended period of time.

This should mean, no more bugs being missed, faster fixes, and no more duplicate bug reports going forwards.

If you really can't use Discord for whatever reason, still do message me here and I'll manually add it to Discord and send you the link to the webpage to monitor it, but this will be a lot slower than adding it immediately yourself.

So thanks for all the new and continued support, new BETA on Monday, and if you do play through it and everything is perfect, please do drop me a message on Discord letting me know everything is good!

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