40,000 tasks done, 100 left to do

I wrote a blog here yesterday, but the blog system ate it – I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. So I’ll try again, but time is short so I gotta be quick – lots of work to do…

As you can probably tell from our recent blog entries, a lot of discussion and debate is spent around here on the topic of just what really needs to be in Supreme Ruler 2010 in order for us to be ready to “go gold”. Not really sure if 40,000 is the accurate number for the features “in”, but we are certainly down to less than 100 tasks that “must” be done to finish up (some more difficult than others). We’ll probably be debating the final feature list right up to the point at which we press record on the CD Burner.

By however you measure it, SR2010 is an epic-sized project with a huge amount of effort put in to making things accurate, and then just as huge an effort into making it all playable and fun.

One disappointment for our upcoming release is that it will be English-only at first launch. The huge amount of data that requires translation (“localization” it’s called in the business) is enough to scare off all the foreign distributors for now. To those in other regions, our apologies that you won’t be able to get SR2010 in your language at day 1, but hopefully we can get the localizations rolling soon after the initial release.

One last thing for today, in case you didn’t catch our press release, we were very pleased to announce this past week that bestselling author Larry Bond has worked with us to provide a foreword for our manual. It was terrific to have Larry on board for this, and he seemed quite enthusiastic about SR2010 as well… to quote,

“This simulation is the most detailed and realistic model of a country that has ever been commercially produced . . .. Supreme Ruler 2010 is a great game”