Schedule for reached milestones (The Road to v2.0)

Sikorsky

April 1st I asked:

So after SoD is relesed and the excitement wore off, I want to aske when we can expect the rewards for the milestones that had been reached.

Dee answered:

We'll be spending the next several days working out a schedule. Personally I'm very excited for the things you've all unlocked.

...................several (124) days later................

Today is August 12st. When can we expect at this schedule. It's been 4 months. And what about The Familiar? Can someone officialy tell what's up with it?

Dee

Since Amber left we're still figuring out who's handling which of her duties. I'll see if I can get more information about the Road to v2.0 milestone rewards and when they'll be posted.

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Mr2150

The road-tested badge may be due to the need for a different log in on Redmine... how to tie the log in there with the log in here?

Dee

The badge is actually waiting on a tool to distribute it to everyone who qualified for it during the event. We have a list of everyone who should be getting it, we just need to set it up.

And yes, the wallpapers are up. What we're waiting on now are:
- Selfie Portraits
- Pregen Character
- Giveaways
- The AMA*

* The AMA may end up not being what was described during the event, due to available time and resources. That's one of the things that still needs to be sorted out; the rest of them, I think, are just about ready.

Doubledimas

edit: Updated my example, and tagging @Dee and @JuliusBorisov (as you're basically the twomost actively involved Beamdog-employees on this forum).

Might it be an idea to make a general topic in the news-forum where you can make a list of what you're working on? Nothing fancy, just a basic rundown of what you're trying to tackle with a small sentence on the status. For example:

Things we are working on:

* Patches: Working on a next update for the games. Update: The last open bug on the list proves to be very elusive. No concrete ETA for when it is solved.
* Bugs/Features: Keep reporting them through redmine!
* SoD to Android/iOS: In progress. Latest news: still struggling with data sizes etc etc, working on it.
* v2.0 to Android/iOS: Conincides with the release of SoD on these platforms
* Road to v2.0 goodies. Latest news: Wallpapers done, rest in the works.
* IWD:EE to v2.0: We want to convert IWD:EE to the v2.0 changes, but nothing concrete is being done as other things take precedence.

Other interesting things:
* UI discussions: Recently a coordinated discussion on the UI started. You can find the subforum for it here.
* A new game: Very hypothetically speaking, what would you like in a new D&D game? Let it know here.

You could even divide it into short-term/long-term or something like that. The main problem is that all the information about the myriad of things you could be working on is dispersed throughout the forum/twitter accounts/etc. It would be nice to have it in one central place for easy overview.

I'm not saying that you need to constantly update it every time something changes, but at least people would know where to look for information.

Sikorsky

Doubledimas said:

Might it be an idea to make a general topic in the news-forum where you can make a list of what you're working on? Nothing fancy, just a basic rundown of what you're trying to tackle with a small sentence on the status.

I agree on that.

Dawglicious

I too would appreciate having some sort of proper and official update, I mean I would assume that in-house Beamdog has some idea what percentage of things they have completed, so use that to release some sort of update as to how things are coming along.

Bafflecat

I'm so hyped for the rewards. I wonder when they'll send out the emails to the chosen faces of the new portraits? I've been checking my email obsessively in the slim hope that I might (finally) get a chance to be Baldurised!

Thanks for the update Dee.