Hello and happy 2013 to everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, New Year's, and/or whatever else you may celebrate. As I mentioned in my last issue, I will be outlining some of what's to come for Bootleggers this year, specifically in Q1. Firstly, I wanted to mention that unfortunately my original plan of action didn't work out as well as hoped. I had gauged my available time during December based off what it was like last year. I soon found out that the holiday season kept me much busier this year than expected and wasn't able to wrap up the features I had planned to. Definitely a setback, but now with the holidays out of the way, things should be able to move forward, albeit later than hoped. The FAQ will return on Tuesday with achievements following suit soon after that. Not FAQ "soon", but actual "soon" The release of Blackjack is not as well known at the moment due to a couple factors. But it will be released as soon as it is ready. All these items are close to completion and will be released in the near future so I want to move on to what's next.
Crews is definitely going to be the focus coming up. It's going to be entirely redone from the ground up. We've been listening to all of your feedback, which we greatly appreciate, and after a final meeting with the Elite Guard members making sure everything that needs to be included is accounted for, development will begin. Some of the revamp will likely overlap into updates to the Kill feature, but the main feature being updated is crews themselves. They tend to go hand-in-hand, though.
The other main item that is going to be worked on is a mobile version of the game. Now, I'm usually reluctant to mention such an update but I really wanted to let you all know what's going to be happening. If that means competition hears about it, then that's just going to have to be the case. It won't be an actual iPhone or Android app, but a mobile version. I know a lot of you already play from your mobile devices and(2000) I think it's important to have an actual mobile version available. One of the advantages of this type of game has always been the accessibility of it; not having to download or install anything. So furthering this accessibility to mobile devices is something I really want to see done. Preliminary designs for the mobile version have already been sketched. This will be worked on alongside the crew revamp.
For this first quarter of the year, I hope to see much of the way Bootleggers is played improved. Achievements will have added more goals within the game, crews will have been revamped and bring an entirely new presence within the game, users will be able to play the game from their phones using a version of the game specifically meant for such a device, and overall balance in the game from various tweaks should really help with such improvement. That's the course of this quarter and where the game will be headed. I'll know more about how everything is progressing as time goes on. I do apologize for the previously mentioned setback and while I would definitely have liked to have been a few weeks ahead of this point, all I can do now is get us moving forward.
I think 2013 and this first quarter will be a great step for Bootleggers and I look forward to seeing you all around. Until next time, have fun!
The release of Blackjack is not as well known at the moment due to a couple factors. But it will be released as soon as it is ready. All these items are close to completion and will be released in the near future so I want to move on to what's next.