User blog:Atarumaster88/''Guardian'' Goes Gold!

As of this announcement, Force Exile IV: Guardian, has gone "Gold", to borrow the term from the gaming industry. In other words, it's finished.

Now, there's still 2 weeks until content release, so you won't be seeing the hundred plus pages of the novel's end for awhile. What will I do with the novel in the mean time? Well, it still needs to be beta-read, and I'll need to do my own copyediting, plus reformat it for upload. And there's some other stuff I need to do for the upcoming content release. Secret stuff.

All that said, the ending did up being three segments. I'll have to adjust my navigational template for that, but there were a lot of things I needed to do, and they just happened to take sixty pages more than I'd planned to do properly.

I'll also use this blog to reveal that I am working on maps of the Yanibar colony. Well, a map. If all goes well, I'll be able to do it without needing to acquire Solus's graphic expertise, but I certainly won't rule that out. It'll be a combination of hand-drawn art and computer graphics and will be released in the July FEast also. In other FE graphics news, if all goes well, there will be a new cover for Guardian released to commemorate the end of the novel.

And since I didn't say it before, I'm aiming for a release the first weekend of July.

That about wraps up this blog post…see you in July! Atarumaster88  ( Talk page ) 16:46, 17 June 2009 (UTC)