Now, even though I’ve made long strides recently with v.9175, I still consider myself a long ways away from the full demo.

What is the goal of Demo v 1.00?

The goal of the full demo is …

A) To complete the first act story, which was accomplished in v.917
B) To complete all of the infrastructure of the game, ready for event implementation. This means all maps and areas are able to be explored.
C) To finalize the way all battles work. This means a working escape system, making sure every rune and weapon change works, all battle commands are bug-free, etc. And lastly, skill, stat & weapon balancing, which is what I’m having the most problems with.

So, what will you expect in version 1? At the very least, every city & town will be complete, with buildings you can enter and at least some citizens you can talk to. You should at least be able to shop at every town. And all the Tilesets should have no problems. My goal is to release version 0.999 as the ultimate version of the demo for final bug testing, and once it’s fixed, to release 1.00 as the perfect version. We’ll see if I can manage to pull it off.