OPTIMIZATION, LESS CRASHING, NEW QUESTS! - RPG Tycoon Updated to Alpha 0.8.3

Hey,

I've been working over the past couple of weeks on an optimised build of the game, so this patch won't bring too many new features I'm afraid but I really wanted to start tackling the poor performance issues of the game and really iron out the issues causing many of the memory leaks in the game. A lot of the game code has had to be reworked from scratch and I've redesigned a few menus, mechanics a bit to handle it.

I'm not finished yet and there's still a lot of work to be done, but in my initial tests the past two or three days I've seen improvements in the endurance of the game, so I'm happy to announce that upon playing this build you should (hopefully) see a vast improvement in performance allowing you to play much longer without experiencing any memory-related crashes.

Secondly, I have the pleasure of collaborating with J.S Collyer, Science Fiction Writer and Author of the Orbit book series, who has lovingly come on board to work with me on writing a series of Epic Quest Events for the game. She's an incredible writer, absolutely loves the concept and is really rolling with the stories. I'm sure playing this build you'll love some of the additions to the Questlines and agree that she absolutely nails the tone.

I'm very excited to continue working with her to grow the variety of the events and stories that will occur to your Heroes as quests unfold. You can find out more about her and her work here.

That's pretty much the gist of what's been added. Full update notes are below. I'll continue working on optimisation and start working towards Alpha 9.

All the best and thanks for the continued support, Matt

Update Notes

** New Features **

• New Music Track

• New Thief Hero Class

• New Info Box Highlighting

• Continue Button added to Final Screen of Epic Quest

• Hero Selector now Shows Stats

• Various New Quest Events Added

• Redesigned Inventory Menu Slightly

** Optimisation **

• Various Optimisations to Reduce Memory

• Various Optimisations to Increase Performance

** Bug Fixes **

• Minor Bug Fixes

PS. No doubt, I've brought on some new bugs elsewhere. So please let me know in the forums if you find any issues.