Lone Wolf: Horizon
Making Progress
The Plan [Repost]
I'm deeply sorry.
I've looked at my own store page countless times, wondering how I could let a game be developed this horribly. Usually I try to make things worthwhile, and with quality, something went wrong with this.
I'm going back to the drawing board, and will be completely redoing this game. It might be a while, until then. Refund your money or do not buy the game.
I apologize.
Anywho, to the plan.
Looking back, I shouldn't have made the game multiplayer focused. So that's step 1, make the game singleplayer only, for the time being.
Step 2, put quality over quantity. I tried making a huge world, but it was shallow. Ocean wide puddle deep. I want to make a puddle wide ocean deep game. Well, maybe a little bit bigger than a puddle. I'm going to completely redo the mechanics, and more. I've been playing No Man's Sky, and I realized I like some of their systems, but I still like some of mine. I'll see what I can do there.
Step 3, add content, more content, and more content.
This is going to be a huge undertaking, and it will take a bit of time.
Until then, I recommend NOT BUYING, or REFUNDING. If the option allows.
- Mark.
The Plan + Your Suggestions
I have a plan for the game. I'm going to completely redo it from scratch.
Spending months working on the game, I memorized a lot of the code, but not most of it. So I can rewrite a lot of the code. I'm going to make it better than before. I'm going to add a lot of content, add many more features (once I get the development close to where it was before), make it a lot more stable, and more.
Right now I'm a square 1. This is going to take some time, but I am going to do it.
What are your thoughts? If you want, leave some suggestions below.
Lost Files Update + Apology
So for one, I've been extremely busy with summer school as I'm taking an online speech class, and it's a 8 month course shortened to 1 month, so there is a lot of work.
I've also had IRL work, as some of you may know I work as a cashier at a grocery store.
And then my girlfriend broke up with me, so I've been feeling down because of that.
However, I haven't been ignoring your suggestions for data recovery. I was able to get some files back, but not all, or close to all, and most of what I have back is code; however, most of this code I see as shitty now, so I rewrote some of it, and made a much better framework for future games. Less buggy, and more stable and optimized. Lost World Zero never really used a proper framework, as most developers do, such as classes that revolve around certain features (network helpers and the like), mine was just a bundle of code mashed together.
I deeply apologize for the drama of this game. I regret every minute of it.
My friend told me somebody asked on Steam why it's on sale if the game is never going to be finished:
Steam let's developers know what day the Steam sales start and end, in about 2-3 months in advanced, this information cannot be shared with anyone, so I never told anyone about it and I never planned to lose all the data, as I wanted to keep working on it to make you guys happy. I requested a sale on it as soon as sale requests went live, as the data wasn't gone yet.
I am not angry or saddened at you guys for being angry or feeling betrayed at me, as I completely understand it.
I'm working to become a better developer. I'm completely rewriting a lot of the old code I got back, and writing newer, much better code. I'm going to spend much more time on it, and my current project is relatively secret.
However, one thing is for sure. If I ever get another game on Steam, I'm going at a different perspective and approach. I'm not going into Early Access, and I'm going to work my ass off on the next game, to make it worthy of being fully released Day 1 and to make it not feel "EA"-like.
And anyone who purchased Lost World Zero will get all of my other games for free if they are to ever make it to Steam. Whether you want it or not, if you don't want it, you can remove it from your library. I understand I lost all of your guys trust.
I know I was a dick to some people and that's one of the things I regret most, and I've completely broken any trust between any customers.
Turns out my anger and mood swings and depression and such, were all caused by ADD. How fun! So, I'm on medication now. Which should allow me to focus more and get stuff done and be more calm. Vyvanse is working wonders right now.
I am so sorry.
Lost Files: Proof and Update on the Situation
Several people are claiming that me losing my files is a "lie" and that it is "quite obvious from both posts".
A small update: I did however recover one of my old, old, old games from an old laptop, but that's about it really. Nothing else besides that.
The proof will be attached.
The "Games" folder on one of my drives is games I have downloaded from Steam, such as SUPERHOT, Black Ice, Disco Dodgeball. I put those on a flashdrive for portability.
I am currently on Windows 7, despite me hating it, mainly because I hate the look of the UI, and much prefer the minimal UI look of Windows 8, and 10. Why would I install a least-preferred OS and not bother to back up files? For one, it was the only disk lying around because I don't know what happened to Windows 8, messy room.
Many of the programs I love are still not installed as I haven't gotten around to installing them, and you can clearly see it's a fresh Windows install. Now, I have upgraded and installed Windows versions before and I know very well that it doesn't touch the other drives if you don't tell it too. However, this happened when Windows automatically started installing Windows 10 while I wasn't even home, because I got back from running errands with my girlfriend. I got home and noticed it was updating, because I've been meaning to update when I could do it myself. It got to around 28% percent? I think, can't remember because I was chilling with my girlfriend as there was nothing to do while it updated because I was in the middle of coding an update for Lost World Zero. After a while my girlfriend noticed the screen was black, and I figured oh it's probably doing a restart during the install, might be almost done. After about 30 ish minutes, nothing happened. I said fuck it, and turned it off. I booted back up and noticed that it didn't boot up. It didn't do anything. I switched a drive, and installed Windows 7 on that drive. Hoping my Windows 10 install would be on the original drive as I have done this before for testing stuff and doing maintenance to my machine. I realized just as it was finishing, that Windows was checking my drives. A disk check. I have seen this before and though, eh, whatever.
Windows is installed and I check my drives. All of the data is gone. Everything, on every drive. It's gone. I was in the middle of an update for Lost World Zero to finally add more content, and this happens.
Now, reviews keep telling me to ADD MORE CONTENT, so I did.
Why would I delete everything, all of my projects from 2011 to 2016, stuff not even related to this? Why would it be a lie? The logic behind calling it a lie is pretty... flawed. Anyway, that was a detailed timeline of what happened that day. I probably got a few things mixed up because it was all a blur and I have shit memory, I was devastated and I cried that night because half a decade of work was gone and there was no way to get it back.
Lost World Zero Update: Back to Minimal
Regarding content:
Summer is almost here, so I will have a LOT more free time, which means much more time for content additions! I get out of school June 2nd.
I'm planning on getting the game to 80% out of Early Access from June 2nd to August 24th.
Hint... Hint.. Something Coming Soon?
Untextured Visuals Return Soon!
Poll: Untextured or textured?
What are your thoughts? Leave a comment below.
1.4.0 Patch Notes
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Additions
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+ Added camera recoil when firing. Less recoil when aiming down the sights.
+ Completely new map, huge open world to be explored, but in heavy development.
Fixes/Changes
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* Tweaked some UI stuff behind the scenes.
Removals
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- Removed tutorial for the time being.
Sorry for long delay, check announcements for more information on that.