Monday, April 8, 2013

Chapter 5 now available inside the app!


Finally we've managed to publish Chapter 5 inside the Wormworld Saga App. We're over a week late on this and I'm really sorry about that. I don't even want to bore you with the filthy details of our failure. Let's just say that the only way to make sure that a new chapter will launch simultaniously on the webside AND the app is to wait with the release until all the data for the app is ready and tested. This will mean that it might happen that although I might be ready to launch on the website I would need to wait with the launch until the app developers give their green light. I'm used to launch right at the moment when the last touches for a chapter have been done. This time we launched on Sunday and the last adjustments to the layout were done on Saturday so there wasn't much time lost. I anticipated the app launch on Monday which also wouldn't have hurt much. Well, the one positive aspect of a delayed launch inside the app is, that it gives me the chance to fix all the typos that the readers of the web version point out. It's not easy to update a chapter inside the app so we really have to make sure to find as many typos as possible before the launch. This might become a bit of a challenge if we launch simultaniously.

However, there it is - Chapter 5 inside the app. The Collector's Edition comes with a new artbook item that has added a new page to the artbook index!


"The Making of Chapter 5" features a gallery of color studies that I painted for Chapter 5:


And I've written up some info about my use of color schemes into which I've put particular care during the production of Chapter 5:


There's also a bunch of sketches in the article (Raya's room, the waterfalls, the transport ship...) and I've also gathered some info about the higher resolution that I produced this chapter in. So, it's a nice artbook item and as always it's accompanied by the artwork and the prelim version and the author commentary inside the chapter itself.

12 comments:

  1. Great work Daniel! I've been holding out for the iPad version :-) Hopefully the app will one day be upgraded to Retina - the artwork would look even more amazing!

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    1. Thanks, Tim! I'm starting work on an updated graphics set for an HD version of the app this month. I can't say when the update will be ready but it definitely is planned.

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  2. Nice, but can't buy the collector edition for this chapter, the Android app give an error message " object not found".

    Regards from a fan from Chile

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    1. Thanks for the feedback! I will send out the flying apes to fix the problem!

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    2. Now it's working, the flying apes are very efficient (I need a couple of those, :P )

      Good luck with the exclusive content app purchases and the sales in the store, we need that you can work exclusively on this wonderfull tale.

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  3. Hi Daniel, I've been a big fan of the wormworldsaga and I sincerely hope you will release the contents from inside the app into internet so that we can get it as well if we dont have android or apple device.

    Keep up the amazing work!
    Kael

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    1. Good news here: it's definitely planned to bring the special content to the website. Can't give any details on that yet but I'm very aware of the fact that there are a lot of fans who lack the right device to access the special content.

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    2. I'm really glad to hear that! Thank you so much for all these that you've brought us.

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  4. Hi Daniel, well done. I just 'inhaled' this chapter. ;-)
    But same problem here, cannot buy the collectors edition, "object not found" (Element nicht gefunden).

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  5. Awesome Chapter Daniel! Incredible mood and lightning =) I've encountered the same "object not found" error with the collectors edition though.

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  6. Thanks for all the feedback! We will fix the error inside the Android app as soon as possible!

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  7. The developers have informed me, that the Problem with the Android app should be fixed now. Please try again to download Chapter 5!

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