1 December 1999

The News

Things have been a bit busy these last few weeks, so I've not made as much progress as I would have liked. Anyway, here's what I have been up to:

• I've given the site a fairly radical facelift - hope you like the new look. Let me know what you think!
• I've been negotiating the soundtrack; so far, 11 bands have agreed to appear in the game, contributing a total of 16 songs. However, only a few have managed to send me the signed contracts yet, so it could a couple more weeks until things are finalised.
• I've been squishing bugs in the code. As usual. :-)
• I've been looking into Locale support.
• I've started to add some more advanced scripting features to allow the script to put messages up on the player's screen. Now that the communications backbone between the script and the game engine is working properly things should progress a lot quicker.

Well, that's all for the time being. See you next update!

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