Esoteric Update #193 - Jasooooon!

Update time. Let's start with some lore:

Lore: Tales From The Museum

Unfortunately, as far as the update goes, I don't have much to report. Not because there hasn't been any progress, but because this week just caught us out in the middle of several things, with nothing quite finished. But let's go over what we can, and let's start with the map; it's close to being done:

Additionally, I expanded the location roster further and moved a few things around. It became clear that many locations started clustering in the same place, and I preferred to spread them all over a little bit more. You might also note that apart from filling out a lot more of the space, I also re-did a few of the old sections.

We also had a release for the hardware accelerated version of the engine, now that I solved the bugs and had enough time with it to trust it's stable and safe to run. There were some issues with virus detection, but it seems to all go down to heuristics, and we've had problems with that before. In any case, there's a download for this on Discord if you want to try it but be advised: this is not a content update, just a technical check-up.

We're also working on writing for several things, including some challenging writing for psychometry/aura reading. The systems might be done, but they need to be filled out with content, and we're aiming to make that as good as we can. In addition, there are a few more clothing types to implement and other writing in the backlog. I'm also trying to pen some articles concerning the more recent iterations of our systems. Finally, I'm also trying to get handling for JSON in-API done so I can more easily manipulate some data fetched from the Internet.

Next week should include more things to show.