Just a quick heads up that today marks 1 week online for heroes and we're already at 60 concurrent users in game. Growing nicely! We have a new set of video ads being finalized which will be launching in the next day or two.
Great news Chris - keep it up! Any ETA on the first gambling games (not exact date of course just like maybe how many months are we away from this? ).
For sure! So our rough estimate was to have something ready to show off within a month of the Heroes launch (not necessarily open to public but a working prototype that we could get some people testing) with the full launch aimed within 2 months of Heroes being live.
Right now we've brought in a statistician to double check all our gambling math to make sure we're not introducing any issues and our average payouts are accurate (running simulated results is all well and good but having the extra math check is always useful). We're in the process of reviewing artist applications and have at least 2 artists working on 'trial basis' and based on the results of their first project will ideally be moved into working on the rest of the art for the games.
The design document for the first 4 gambling games is completed and we've also discussed the projects in depth with a number of unity developers. At this stage it sounds like I'll be doing the unity work but it's good to have them as fallbacks if I am busy with other projects. I also have finished setting up the core template for the game (the game environment and some base classes to handle all the spinning and button pushes and interface logic needed for the games).
Our main bottleneck was URL based authentication. Now that it is completed from working on the in-game jewels shop it will mean we can start pushing forward on the games themselves in the next couple of weeks.