The new release date for The Ruby Court is the 12th of April.

I’ll get a little more technically in-depth below if the reasoning behind that is something that’s interesting to you. Otherwise, trust me -- the game will be better for it!

PROGRESS

A lot of fiddling with stuff. Getting a build together for playtesters, work on getting the save system to work, more writing. A lot of things that are very boring for a devlog, haha

And some work on a trailer: 

WHY THE NEW RELEASE DATE?

1. The save system I was working on turned out to have a bunch of issues. Certain things not resetting (UI elements, audio), data values reverting back to 0 (so you’d be losing your reputation points, etc). The game is only around an hour long, but it’s unfair to have you be forced to play the entire thing in one sitting. A save system (and my one is pretty basic at that) is an assumed feature in games, but there’s quite a bit of work and planning that go into them. I want to get it right so you won’t lose progress.
2. Nobody (including me) has money tied to this release date. No stakeholders or funding, so I don’t see a reason to force myself to release a game I wouldn’t be as happy with.
3.  I was crunching. Like, totally my own fault, but I was working on this 7 days a week up into the AMs
4. The March release date was always scheduled around another piece of news…

SORT OF UNRELATED NEWS

I’ve secured funding for another game project! So if you enjoy dieselpunk survival stuff, keep an eye out on my page.

This won’t affect The Ruby Court in any way. RC is still my focus for now (while I deal with funding admin stuff in the background).

That's everything for now. Thanks all