Addressing a few issues I feel need to be.
I want to keep positive as much as possible, but when flat out misinformation is posted here or elsewhere, I feel I owe it to you and the project to do my best to answer.
I addressed the 'we were donating to fund the entire game' assertion yesterday. Hopefully that was sufficient.
There are others, but the one I wanted to address right now is this:
"You said you were in full on development mode, but instead you made a demo!"
This is really an issue of semantics and different words used in the games industry than perhaps in the mainstream.
When we announced we were full on making the game, we were. We were 'full on', perhaps not the best choice of words, but we meant that the team was focused, everyone had their assignments for that month, and were doing their jobs.
We focused first on prototyping combat. So you could call that a Prototype. It was still the game, but we were focused on the Combat System.
We focused later on how to build a zone, how big it could be, etc.
We focused even later on making part of a zone look as good as it could be with the tools and resources we had.
This was for two reasons: 1. Simple need to know how good we could make it and 2. so we could show an interested potential investor.
This was called, amongst other things, the "demo". Now, sometimes a demo is it's own entity. So can be a Prototype. That's where semantics and clarity of meaning come in to play, and if I wasn't clear enough, I certainly apologize.
In the case of Pantheon: Pantheon = the game = the prototype = the demo. They're all one in the same. You can see this very clearly by looking at the screenshots I posted on the Pantheon FB page. I posted a ton of shots from early builds to the most latest build. I think I posted shots from 12 different builds that ranged from November 21, 2013 all the way to April 11th, 2014. You can see the game evolve. You can see us focusing on different things. But it's very clear it was all the same entity, it was Pantheon in development -- a game in development. During development we used it to prototype different things. We also used it to demo to different people. And we will use it in the future to demo to people.
Anyway, I hope this all makes sense. If not, feel free to ask and let me know something's not clear. Thanks.
-Brad
