Hero-U - Celebrating Hero-U 2017

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Here's a new update for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption:

Celebrating Hero-U 2017
We like to decorate our Christmas/Solstice tree with themed decorations. One year was space, another Harry Potter. For the past five Christmas seasons, we've decorated the tree with symbols of Quest for Glory and Hero-U to remind us of our commitment. We have Quest for Glory ornaments, School for Heroes baubles, and Rogue decorations. Our gifts this year included Hero-U mugs and t-shirts. It's safe to say that we've thought of Hero-U a lot more than about snowmen, reindeers, or sugar plums during these holidays.

We believe the love and commitment from us and the team will make Hero-U great. Every week, I have the pleasure and honor of seeing John Paul's gorgeous artwork created for the game. Chris and Aaron did fantastic work bringing JP's vision for the school into 3D. Al has given our characters graceful movement. Carolyn turned static scenes into staged events. Jerry and Robert built the foundation of the castle and the other environs. Adam gave us our Reputation system and our new interface design. Judy created the foundations for our mini-games and added important features to Rob's game scripting editor. Joshua has led the development of... well, nearly everything code-related. Our other Josh is helping Hero-U be hilarious through his droll messages for interacting with objects that most games ignore.

Both Al and JP play the game weekly to see that things work and look right, handling Quality Assurance as well as their artistic contributions now that the art tasks are winding down. Who better to judge whether a room lights need adjusting or a character's movement looks stilted?

It's the programmers who need to do the heavy lifting now. We'll be adding a few new names to our programming list soon. It's time to get this game done.

The game is designed, but I am still writing dialogue and setting scenes in motion. Our custom game system has turned me into a programmer as well as a writer. It gives me the control to make a scene extremely complicated and sophisticated without the worry that my design will get lost in programming translation. It also makes my job harder and take longer as I have to keep track of 'If's and Else's". We also get to spend time finding mistakes in the scripts as well as in the Unity code.

Corey is now going over the resumes of the many wonderful folk who want to work on the game. There's a lot of behind-the-scene work like paying people, bills, and taxes that needs to be done to keep this project going. Occasionally he even contributes to design decisions.

Hero-U is a very different game from anything we have made in the past. We've applied lessons from every game design we've created, the experiences of all the people involved, and the pleasure of all the games we all have played and loved. Hero-U will bring these things together to create a game experience that we hope you all will love as much as you loved Quest for Glory.

So here's to 2017! We are adding more programmers to add to the richness of the game. We are incorporating new music and sound effects to give the game emotional depth. We are testing, poking, and judging every pixel and action in the game to make sure it works as intended and that the game is fun.

This is the year we ship this game. You will enjoy all the effort it took and all the love we built into this creation.

It's going to be a great year for Hero-U.​